different between manoeuvre vs tactic
manoeuvre
English
Etymology
From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, manoeuvre”) and manouvrer (“to manoeuvre”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labour”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handwerc (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English hand?eweorc, German Handwerk.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /m??nu?v?/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /m??nu?v?/
- Rhymes: -u?v?(?)
- Hyphenation: ma?noeu?vre
Noun
manoeuvre (plural manoeuvres)
- Britain, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.
Verb
manoeuvre (third-person singular simple present manoeuvres, present participle manoeuvring, simple past and past participle manoeuvred)
- (transitive) Britain, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.
Derived terms
- manoeuvrable
See also
- overtaking
Anagrams
- manoeuver, manœuver
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tactic
English
Alternative forms
- tactick (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (taktikós, “fit for ordering”), from ????? (táss?, “to order, to arrange”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tækt?k/
- Rhymes: -ækt?k
Noun
tactic (plural tactics)
- A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.
- Synonyms: scheme, stratagem, plan, maneuver, course of action
- Coordinate term: strategy
- (military) A maneuver used against an enemy.
- (chess) A sequence of moves that limits the opponent's options and results in an immediate and tangible advantage, typically in the form of material.
Translations
Adjective
tactic (comparative more tactic, superlative most tactic)
- (dated, military) Tactical; of or relating to the art of military and naval tactics.
- Synonym: tactical
- 1831, Thomas Campbell, The Power of Russia
- But time will teach the Russ, ev'n conquering War
Has handmaid arts: aye, aye, the Russ will woo
All sciences that speed Bellona's car,
All murder's tactic arts, and win them too […]
- But time will teach the Russ, ev'n conquering War
- (chemistry) Describing a polymer whose repeat units are identical.
Translations
Anagrams
- tic tac, tic-tac
Romanian
Etymology
From French tactique.
Adjective
tactic m or n (feminine singular tactic?, masculine plural tactici, feminine and neuter plural tactice)
- tactical
Declension
tactic From the web:
- what tactics did the vietcong use
- what tactic used by unions weegy
- what were the tactics used by the vietcong
- why were the vietcong tactics so effective
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