deft

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deft

(dĕft)

adj., deft·er, deft·est.
Quick and skillful; adroit. See synonyms at dexterous.

[Middle English, gentle, humble, variant of dafte, foolish. See daft.]

deftly deft'ly adv.
deftness deft'ness n.

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adjective

Showing art or skill in performing or doing: adroit, artful, dexterous, skillful. See ability/inability, knowledge/ignorance.
Exhibiting or possessing skill and ease in performance: adroit, clever, dexterous, facile, handy, nimble, slick. See ability/inability.
Well done or executed: adroit, clean, neat, skillful. See ability/inability, good/bad.

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adj

Definition: agile, clever
Antonyms: awkward, clumsy, inept, unhandy, unskillful

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IN BRIEF: Quick and neat in action; skillful.

Step with care and great tact And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act Just never forget to be dexterous and deft And never mix up your right foot with your left. — Dr. Seuss.

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A Defter (plural: Defterleri) was a type of tax register in the Ottoman Empire. The information collected could vary, but tahrir defterleri typically included details of villages, dwellings, household heads (adult males and widows), ethnicity/religion (because these could affect tax liabilities/exemptions), and land use.^[1]

The defter-i hakâni was a land registry, also used for tax purposes.^[2]

The term is derived from Greek diphthera διφθέρα meaning book (having as sheets membranes of goat skin, used along with papyrus as paper in antique Greece) borrowed into Persian دفتر: daftar meaning book, registry, and in modern time office or bureau.

Some Ottoman officials responsible for these tax registries were known as defterdars.

The term 'diphtheria' or 'diphtheritis', acute contagious disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Klebs-Loffler bacillus) has the same origin^[3]

References

^ Cosgel (2004). "Ottoman Tax Registers (Tahrir Defterleri)". Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 37 (2): 87–100. http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/econ_wpapers/200247/. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
^ Barnes (1987). An introduction to religious foundations in the Ottoman Empire. Brill. pp. 151. ISBN 9789004086524.
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - fingernem, som har håndelag, kvik

Nederlands (Dutch)
behendig

Français (French)
adj. - habile, preste, adroit

Deutsch (German)
adj. - geschickt, gewandt

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - επιδέξιος, επιτήδειος

Italiano (Italian)
abile

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - hábil, destro

Русский (Russian)
ловкий, искусный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - hábil, diestro

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - flink, skicklig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
敏捷熟练的, 灵巧的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 敏捷熟練的, 靈巧的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 손기술 있는 , 기술 좋은, 재치 있는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 器用な, 上手な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) ماهر وسريع في الحركات بخاصه حركه اليدين, ماهر بالأعمال اليدويه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מוכשר, זריז‬

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