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tack English

Meaning tack meaning

What does tack mean?
Definitions in simple English

tack Noun

— A tack is a small, sharp nail with a large flat head. He needed a tack to hold the carpet edge down. — A tack is the direction of a boat sailing against the wind. The boat sailed across the bay on a southerly tack. — A tack is a course or direction to follow. Our ideas cuased so much anger we were forced to change tack. — Tack is items that are used for horse riding. The saddles were kept in the tack room.

tack Verb

— To tack is to use small nails to hold something. She had to tack the new rules on the notice board. — To tack is to put something together. We might be able to tack together a few ideas. — To tack is to sew something together with large loose stitches. The tailor quickly began to tack the hem of her dress. — To tack is to sail a zigzag course against the wind. We had to tack our way along the coast.

tack

— verb fasten with tacks tack the notice on the board — verb turn into the wind The sailors decided to tack the boat The boat tacked — noun the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails — noun a short nail with a sharp point and a large head — noun (= tacking) (nautical) the act of changing tack — noun sailing a zigzag course — noun (= sheet) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind — verb (= interchange) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) — verb (= baste) sew together loosely, with large stitches baste a hem — noun (= stable gear) gear for a horse — verb (= append) fix to; attach append a charm to the necklace — verb (= piece, set up, tack together) create by putting components or members together She pieced a quilt He tacked together some verses They set up a committee

Synonyms tack synonyms

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tack English » English

baste nail pin thumbtack append tack together spike peg tacking stitch stable gear saddlery rivet hang on drawing pin weather sheet wear round toggle tag on tack on switch stick shroud sheet sew set up put together post piece mainsheet luff interchange hobnail harness flip-flop flip fasten drawing-pin beat attach assemble annex alternate turn head turn tintack tag tackiness tack about supplement

Topics tack topics

What do people use tack to talk about?
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Physical actions Arrange

Join, attach
Physical actions Arrange Join, attach

Add to something

  • What words refer to adding to what has been said?
    tack on

Conjugation tack conjugation

How do you conjugate tack?

tack · verb

Examples tack examples

How do I use tack in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The mind always loves to tack on to something, and when it doesn't have anything good for that purpose, it turns to the evil.

Movie subtitles

She's not the sharpest tack in the box.
Prepare to make sail! Let go sheets and tack!
No matter what course we take, son, you can't tack around like that.
I have a fire in the tack room.
And then, several hundred million years ago, nature went off on another tack and produced the dinosaurs.
We'll sail in until we sight them, make a larboard tack. and rake them with broadsides as we cross the harbor.
You're on that tack, are you? That idiot child of Denby's.
Look here, seems to me you're taking a pretty different tack!
Docto, I've completely lost tack of M. Spenalzo.
I see he's taking a new tack.
Hey, Ma, maybe that's a new tack.
Signal from the point. Natividad's gone about. One more tack, and she'll be at the harbor mouth.
Starbuck asked if he could spend the night in the tack room and I said yes.
Jimmy was gonna take them out to the tack room, if it's all right.
Prepare to come onto starboard tack!
Starboard tack it is!
Stand by to come about on the larboard tack.
Well sharp he is, sharp as a tack and just as flat headed.
Little, little - tack, a tack!
Wet tack? Wet tack?
Horse - wet tack, horse - wet tack. Horse - wet track, horse wet track.
One more tack, and she'll be at the harbor mouth.
Meanwhile, I'm taking a different tack and I'm questioning you one by one.
Tack your sheet!
I don't like strangers shipping my trunks around. I got my tack in them.
Hear the crack of the canvas as he slammed the wheel over. and we came around on a tack.
You can't play tick-tack-toe with your feelings.
She's out in the tack room.
I'm going out to the tack room and bring her in.
In the tack room.
Now, Hank, I think we're getting off on the wrong tack.
I'd better stick on this port tack.

News and current affairs

He can scold - a tack that Francis has so far tried to avoid - but he cannot convince.
More recently, the debate has changed tack: taxing the financial sector is now seen as a convenient way to set aside sufficient resources to pay for the next financial crisis.
A change of tack by Merkel now would merely reinvigorate the devastated SPD.
That choice of words was no accident; rather, it was a sign that the US is changing tack when it comes to Iran.
After WWII, they tried an entirely new tack, with the great experiment of European integration and institution building.
Here George Soros suggests a bold new tack to restructure the world's financial system.
In this sense, Qatar's tack has produced a rare schism within the Gulf Cooperation Council, whose members collectively possess nearly half of the world's oil reserves.
But in the third edition of his Principles of Political Economy (1817), he inserted a chapter on machinery that changed tack.
If you want to negotiate a change of tack with your creditors, you are unlikely to succeed if you destroy your own credibility and rant and rave about those whose money you need to avoid default.

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