Tack

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A small nail with a flat head.
2. isim A thumbtack.
3. isim A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
4. isim The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
5. isim A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
6. isim A direction or course of action, especially a new one; a method or approach to solving a problem.

   “So stoutly held to tack by those near North-wales men;”

7. isim The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
8. isim The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
9. isim 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.
10. isim Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
11. isim The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.

    “The laminate adhesive has very aggressive tack and is hard to move once in place.”

12. isim Food generally; fare, especially of the hard bread or breadlike kind.

    “Near-synonyms: biscuit, bread”

13. isim That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.

    “Some tacks had been made to money bills in King Charles's time.”

14. isim Confidence; reliance.

    “He should find[…]that there was tack in it, that it was solid silver, or silver that had strength in it.”

15. fiil To nail (something) with a tack (small nail with a flat head).

    “The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a colored poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall.”

16. fiil To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
17. fiil To weld with initial small welds to temporarily fasten in preparation for full welding.
18. fiil 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.
19. fiil To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
20. fiil To add something as an extra item.

    “to tack (something) onto (something)”

21. fiil Synonym of tack up (“to prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with a tack”).
22. fiil To join in wedlock.
23. isim A stain; a tache.
24. isim A peculiar flavour or taint.

    “a musty tack”

25. isim That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.

    “For souvenirs – mostly outright tack and ethnicky textiles – try your bargaining skills at the shops and stalls on Binjiang Luand Zhengyang Jie, or the nightly street market spreading for about a block either side of Shanhu Bridge along Zhongshan Lu.”

26. isim A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.

    “In the Breadalbane papers, for example, there is a "tack" which was given by Sir John Campbell of Glenurchy to his "weil belouit" servant John M'Conoquhy V'Gregour, in the year 1530.”

27. özel isim A surname.