sac
IPA: sˈæk
noun
- A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
- (transitive, informal, games) A sacrifice.
- (UK, law, historical) The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines; now used only in the phrase sac and soc or soc and sac.
- (informal) The city of Sacramento, California, United States.
- (military) Acronym of senior aircraftman.
- Initialism of saeculum ante Christum (“era before Christ”).
- (sports) Abbreviation of Sacramento. [The capital city of California, United States and the county seat of Sacramento County.]
- (US, military) Acronym of Strategic Air Command.
- (underwater diving) Acronym of surface air consumption.
- Alternative form of Sauk [A tribe or group of Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands culture group.]
verb
- (transitive, informal, games) To sacrifice.
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Examples of "sac" in Sentences
- The sacs are lined with apocrine and sebaceous glands.
- At the upper end of the embryo sac are three antipodal cells.
- The outer is the cocoon sac and the inner part is the egg sack.
- The female gamete is produced inside the embryo sac of the ovule.
- The male has a sharp, curved spicule enclosed in a bursa, or sac.
- The embryos are supported in placental yolk sac inside the mother.
- The supernumerary testis is most often found in the left scrotal sac.
- I was also selected as the SAC Outstanding Airman Of The Year in 1980.
- Cord prolapse is often concurrent with the rupture of the amniotic sac.
- In flowering plants, they are replaced by the embryo sac inside the ovule.
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