tack
IPA: tˈæk
noun
- A small nail with a flat head.
- A thumbtack.
- (sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
- (nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
- (nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
- (figurative) A direction or course of action, especially a new one; a method or approach to solving a problem.
- (nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
- (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
- (nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
- Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
- (manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
- Food generally; fare, especially of the bread kind.
- That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
- (obsolete) Confidence; reliance.
- A stain; a tache.
- (obsolete) A peculiar flavour or taint.
- (colloquial) That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
- (law, Scotland and Northern England) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
- A surname.
verb
- To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
- To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
- (nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
- To add something as an extra item.
- Synonym of tack up (“to prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with a tack”).
- (slang, obsolete) To join in wedlock.
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Examples of "tack" in Sentences
- For a spinnaker, the corner is the tack.
- His tack is to be the last post in the section.
- The tack is simpler, and the girth is grey blue.
- The tack is the lower corner of the sail's leading edge.
- The tack is appearing at the lower corner of the sailboat.
- In the meantime, grab the digital and go hit the tack room
- These polymers have excellent green strength and windup tack.
- Simply put, a tie tack is a short pin with an embellished head.
- The bottom edge, between the clew and the tack, is called the foot.
- Others may argue that the tie tack is too tiny to be worth wearing.
- A necktie without a tie tack is like potato chips without potatoes.
- On the same boat, a foresail tack is clipped to the deck and forestay.
- The tack is simpler, lacking the martingale, and the girth is grey blue.
- "_Nej tack, nej tack_" (no thank you), she apparently understood and desisted.
- Sometimes the back-side of the tack is rusty and has probably been there a year or more.
- That switch in tack is just because the growth rate argument failed, it doesn’t make sense factually.
- The much stronger tack is for Republicans to win the 2012 elections and repeal the bill in 2013, before the benefits start rolling in.
- Yeah, the psuedo-outdoorsman tack is what prompted my remark in #99 about him being a pretty good candidate for the offspring of a “Red Green Show” doof.
- The reason for pursuing this tack is my belief that unless we firmly understand the force of events which has led us to the current pass, we are very unlikely to seize the present opportunity to rebuild a more certain and more prosperous future.
- This was a change in tack by the tax authorities, who had been arguing that Vodafone International -- a wholly owned unit of Vodafone Group PLC. -- was liable to be taxed as it had failed to withhold tax when it bought the 67% stake in Hutchison Essar from Hutchison Whampoa for $11.2 billion.