Definitions for tack

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tack tack

Spelling: [tak]

IPA: /tæk/

Tack is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in tack (ackt).

Definitions for tack

noun

1. a short, sharp-pointed nail, usually with a flat, broad head.
2. Nautical. a rope for extending the lower forward corner of a course. the lower forward corner of a course or fore-and-aft sail. the heading of a sailing vessel, when sailing close-hauled, with reference to the wind direction. a course run obliquely against the wind. one of the series of straight runs that make up the zigzag course of a ship proceeding to windward.
3. a course of action or conduct, especially one differing from some preceding or other course.
4. one of the movements of a zigzag course on land.
5. a stitch, especially a long stitch used in fastening seams, preparatory to a more thorough sewing.
6. a fastening, especially of a temporary kind.
7. stickiness, as of nearly dry paint or glue or of a printing ink or gummed tape; adhesiveness.
8. the gear used in equipping a horse, including saddle, bridle, martingale, etc.
9. food; fare.
10. a lease, especially on farmland.
11. a rented pasture.
12. a catch, haul, or take of fish.

Idioms

1. on the wrong tack, under a misapprehension; in error; astray:

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten by a tack or tacks:
2. to secure by some slight or temporary fastening.
3. to join together; unite; combine.
4. to attach as something supplementary; append; annex (often followed by on or onto).
5. Nautical. to change the course of (a sailing vessel) to the opposite tack. to navigate (a sailing vessel) by a series of tacks.
6. to equip (a horse) with tack.

verb (used without object)

1. Nautical. to change the course of a sailing vessel by bringing the head into the wind and then causing it to fall off on the other side: (of a sailing vessel) to change course in this way. to proceed to windward by a series of courses as close to the wind as the vessel will sail.
2. to take or follow a zigzag course or route.
3. to change one's course of action, conduct, ideas, etc.
4. to equip a horse with tack (usually followed by up):

Origin of tack

1300-50; (noun) Middle English tak buckle, clasp, nail (later, tack); cognate with German Zacke prong, Dutch tak twig; (v.) Middle English tacken to attach, derivative of the noun; see

Examples for tack

She will do this until she manages to get around on one tack or the other.

We were able to lay past the enemy on this tack, and fairly got to windward of them.

Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top.

It is well enough on this tack, but I would have you tell me what I am to do on the other.

Archie gained on every tack and come about for the run a full minute afore us.

This second tack, the one that has worked for Hughes, is probably the most viable for Lewinsky, he thinks.

Paul has seen what happens when a candidate takes the tack Cruz appears to be taking with great relish.

For two days and one night we had it, tack and tack, with her.

Anytime we have to put up the sail or tack or do any maneuvering, it requires all hands on deck.

The tack denies the agency of Israeli and Palestinian leaders themselves, and elides scores upon scores of their own missteps.