Knack
noun
A special ability for doing something.
She has a knack for learning new languages quickly.
Often appears as...
- have a knack
- show a knack
noun
A clever trick or method.
There's a knack to folding these papers just right.
Often appears as...
- there's a knack
- have the knack
noun
A special ability for doing something.
She has a knack for learning new languages quickly.
Often appears as...
- have a knack
- show a knack
noun
A clever trick or method.
There's a knack to folding these papers just right.
Often appears as...
- there's a knack
- have the knack
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Talent
Use 'knack' to express an inborn or natural ability, often one that seems effortless.
He has a knack for making people laugh.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
'Knack' has a positive tone, suggesting admiration for someone's special ability.
My sister has a knack for calming tense situations.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Professional
Often used for non-professional skills, it's not usually applied to formal expertise or education.
He's not a chef, but he has a knack for cooking delicious meals.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Talent
Use 'knack' to express an inborn or natural ability, often one that seems effortless.
He has a knack for making people laugh.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
'Knack' has a positive tone, suggesting admiration for someone's special ability.
My sister has a knack for calming tense situations.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Professional
Often used for non-professional skills, it's not usually applied to formal expertise or education.
He's not a chef, but he has a knack for cooking delicious meals.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Talent
Use 'knack' to express an inborn or natural ability, often one that seems effortless.
He has a knack for making people laugh.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
'Knack' has a positive tone, suggesting admiration for someone's special ability.
My sister has a knack for calming tense situations.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Professional
Often used for non-professional skills, it's not usually applied to formal expertise or education.
He's not a chef, but he has a knack for cooking delicious meals.
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Do Elephants Cry? PIPE...
It's quite a knack to it that takes young males a little time to master. Overall, these have been some really good questions. There's been some in here that I get asked quite regularly, But there's also been some that I don't get asked very often. So I think it's quite good to be able to answer some of these questions and give people a better understanding of elephants in general.
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How I use Minecraft to...
So, I have this knack of remembering all of the players. I remember their first day, the conversations we've had, things we've talked about, things they've built. So when somebody comes to me with a problem, I handle that situation differently than I would with any other player, based on what I know about them.
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Bone Collector PIPE Ben...
strange child I'm not really sure how I know how to put a skeleton together but there's so few textbooks and there's actually nobody out there who can do this it's a case of learning through trial and error if just getting life for us it's just a knack it's some people are very good at maybe bird-watching I
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The most notorious...
Marsh was ill-tempered and had a knack for debunking falsehoods. One woman said that getting to know him was “like running against a pitchfork.” Cope, on the other hand, was charismatic and given to bold theorizing. But he was also sarcastic and temperamental. By his own admission, he wasn’t
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Amelia Earhart Part II:...
promote flying but when she was talking to women's groups she was promoting careers for women amelia had a knack for crafting her public persona and writing her own story and that even included attempting to maintain control of her name which wasn't easy dear mr solzberger
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Abandon Ship PIPE National...
want to lose things people were shouting to not look back and then I was so knack that I had to go onto my back and swim and you know he'd say it's just these lights like they're not you know a typical light from the Titanic the typical deep echo nose and of all the
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Amelia Earhart Part I:...
many explorers he's always got a story in mind his knack for finding lost things might my beast are passed by his ability to sit down and tell you the captivating story of how he finds them and the truth is we all love a good story and when it comes to mysteries if
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Why should you read...
After awakening from a coma he went into during the Second World War, Nakata loses the ability to read and write– but gains a mysterious knack for talking to cats. When he’s asked to tail a missing pet,
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Coal Mine Floods PIPE...
it's just coming around and threw it over it like it's not there papa knack has a split-second whacked he jumps into a chamber to the side which saves his life raging water is just inches away you
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Strange Sea Creatures:...
the order of angler fishes psychedelic a' has a gelatinous body covered with thick folds of skin that protected from sharp edged corals it has a knack for pushing its way into coral crevices for
Video examples
Do Elephants Cry? PIPE...
It's quite a knack to it that takes young males a little time to master. Overall, these have been some really good questions. There's been some in here that I get asked quite regularly, But there's also been some that I don't get asked very often. So I think it's quite good to be able to answer some of these questions and give people a better understanding of elephants in general.
Video examples
How I use Minecraft to...
So, I have this knack of remembering all of the players. I remember their first day, the conversations we've had, things we've talked about, things they've built. So when somebody comes to me with a problem, I handle that situation differently than I would with any other player, based on what I know about them.
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Bone Collector PIPE Ben...
strange child I'm not really sure how I know how to put a skeleton together but there's so few textbooks and there's actually nobody out there who can do this it's a case of learning through trial and error if just getting life for us it's just a knack it's some people are very good at maybe bird-watching I
Video examples
The most notorious...
Marsh was ill-tempered and had a knack for debunking falsehoods. One woman said that getting to know him was “like running against a pitchfork.” Cope, on the other hand, was charismatic and given to bold theorizing. But he was also sarcastic and temperamental. By his own admission, he wasn’t
Video examples
Amelia Earhart Part II:...
promote flying but when she was talking to women's groups she was promoting careers for women amelia had a knack for crafting her public persona and writing her own story and that even included attempting to maintain control of her name which wasn't easy dear mr solzberger
Video examples
Abandon Ship PIPE National...
want to lose things people were shouting to not look back and then I was so knack that I had to go onto my back and swim and you know he'd say it's just these lights like they're not you know a typical light from the Titanic the typical deep echo nose and of all the
Video examples
Amelia Earhart Part I:...
many explorers he's always got a story in mind his knack for finding lost things might my beast are passed by his ability to sit down and tell you the captivating story of how he finds them and the truth is we all love a good story and when it comes to mysteries if
Video examples
Why should you read...
After awakening from a coma he went into during the Second World War, Nakata loses the ability to read and write– but gains a mysterious knack for talking to cats. When he’s asked to tail a missing pet,
Video examples
Coal Mine Floods PIPE...
it's just coming around and threw it over it like it's not there papa knack has a split-second whacked he jumps into a chamber to the side which saves his life raging water is just inches away you
Video examples
Strange Sea Creatures:...
the order of angler fishes psychedelic a' has a gelatinous body covered with thick folds of skin that protected from sharp edged corals it has a knack for pushing its way into coral crevices for
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Quote examples
Ryan Reynolds
Canadian Actor
I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else.
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Tituss Burgess
American Actor
We were always in church, and always singing, so once I realized that music was something that I had a knack for, I sort of latched onto it, and it helped give me an identity and figure out who I was as a person. It informed my way into theater, which informed my way into television.
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Eric Carle
American Author
They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.
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Spencer Grammer
American Actress
Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one would ever see. Especially when you have a new project coming out and they're looking to mine some of your lesser-known films.
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Kenny Rogers
American Musician
You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.
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Phil Hellmuth
American Celebrity
Ultra-aggressive players have a knack of making otherwise sound players commit huge stacks of chips with relatively weak hands, like A-Q.
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Richie Sambora
American Musician
Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.
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Jeanette Winterson
British Novelist
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
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Robert B. Weide
American Producer
I have some kind of knack for getting to know or becoming very close with people I've long admired.
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George Lloyd
English Composer
The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
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Ryan Reynolds
Canadian Actor
I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else.
Quote examples
Tituss Burgess
American Actor
We were always in church, and always singing, so once I realized that music was something that I had a knack for, I sort of latched onto it, and it helped give me an identity and figure out who I was as a person. It informed my way into theater, which informed my way into television.
Quote examples
Eric Carle
American Author
They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.
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Spencer Grammer
American Actress
Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one would ever see. Especially when you have a new project coming out and they're looking to mine some of your lesser-known films.
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Kenny Rogers
American Musician
You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.
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Phil Hellmuth
American Celebrity
Ultra-aggressive players have a knack of making otherwise sound players commit huge stacks of chips with relatively weak hands, like A-Q.
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Richie Sambora
American Musician
Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.
Quote examples
Jeanette Winterson
British Novelist
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
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Robert B. Weide
American Producer
I have some kind of knack for getting to know or becoming very close with people I've long admired.
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George Lloyd
English Composer
The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
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