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 sac is filled with foam blocks that arrive all packed tight.
- The sac is REALLY comfy, but it doesn’t hold its shape the way the Omni does.
- The right pleural sac is shorter, wider, and reaches higher in the neck than the left.
- [FN#137] The word sac (leg), when used in the oblique case, as it would necessarily be here, makes saki, i.e. cup-bearer.
- The excess amniotic fluid was then removed from the recipient twin sac, and antibiotics were placed into the uterine cavity to decrease the risk of infection.
- I had been walking home through the wilderness that separated my cul-de-sac from the grocery store, it was a walk I had taken hundreds of times over the past five years, when I tripped.
- An umbilical hernia occurs when a baby's abdominal wall doesn't completely close before birth, causing a small piece of bowel or fat under the skin, often referred to as the sac, to stick out.
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