Learn How to Pronounce TACTILE – TACTILE in a Sentence

Learn How to Pronounce TACTILE – TACTILE in a Sentence

Learn how to pronounce TACTILE correctly by understanding the syllables. Then see TACTILE in a sentence along with an illustration as a memory aid.

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TACTILE – it’s an adjective with 2 syllables.

Stress the 1st syllable.
It’s pronounced TACK◦tile

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TACTILE
Definition: relating to the sense of touch

The clipart shows two hands reaching out to touch each other.

Let’s see an illustrated sentence example.

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In the picture we see a station platform in Japan.

The sentence example reads: Japan pioneered tactile paving, a system of textured ground surface indicators to help pedestrians who are visually impaired.

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Examples of TACTILE from news items:

With Jules, there was an appealing ease of use, with sliding matrix switches enhancing her music’s tactile sensitivity, which she explored further once she returned to Paris, having divorced Arman in 1967.
Source: New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/arts/music/eliane-radigue-music.html

She was exacting and precise, envisioning and recounting her step-by-step process and the tactile cooking experience that she’s become so accustomed to after years and years of cooking this storied dish.
Source: Salon
https://www.salon.com/2021/11/30/this-5-ingredient-cream-chicken-with-rich-tomato-gravy-is-a-winter-weeknight-must-have/

The company supplies acoustic components and haptic technology – which enables users to receive tactile sensations from an interface – for Apple products such as the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
Source: Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-apple-shares/apple-supplier-shares-slide-after-trump-tells-tech-giant-to-make-products-in-u-s-idUSKCN1LQ0Q1

After a recent inquest concluded that the lack of tactile paving contributed to the death of a blind man who fell from a rail station platform, how rare is this kind of incident?
Source: BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-61394882

Beyond the active tactile and muscle signals we were able to study, evidence suggests that the CN receives many more “dormant” inputs that may be important in recovery from neurological injury.
Source: Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-brain-tells-apart-important-and-unimportant-sensations/

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