Slack

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.

   “the slack of a rope or of a sail”

2. isim A dip in a surface.

   “[…] to make good the voids under the sleeper […] to take out "slacks" in the rail level […]”

3. isim In particular, a shallow dell or hollow; a dip in the surface of terrain, such as between hills.

   “Cauldstane Slap, or rather Slack, is a much frequented pass, through which the periodical droves of black cattle are transported into England.”

4. isim A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains.

   “The "slacks" I have mentioned are fresh-water pools which extend just inside the outer sandhills. Being mostly dry in summer, the shore fowl love to breed there. Peewits nest on their banks, and the long grasses and sand willow[…]”

5. isim Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.

   “The counselor is directed to give his client "free attention," or "slack," performing a kind of vigil, a version of Carl Rogers's "unconditional positive regard."”

6. isim Attributive form of slacks (“semi-formal trousers”).

   “The breeches formerly worn with those spiral leggings have been succeeded by full length, slack-type trousers which are loose at the knee and around the calf.”

7. sıfat Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.

   “a slack rope”

8. sıfat Weak; not holding fast.

   “a slack hand”

9. sıfat Moderately warm.

   “a slack oven”

10. sıfat Moderate in speed.

    “a slack wind”

11. sıfat Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.

    “slack in duty or service”

12. sıfat Not active or busy, successful, or violent.

    “Business is slack.”

13. sıfat Excess; surplus to requirements.

    “the slack capacity of an oil pipeline”

14. sıfat Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
15. sıfat Lax.
16. zarf Slackly.

    “slack dried hops”

17. fiil To slacken.

    “I maruell I heare no nevves of Dromio, either hee ſlackes the matter, or betrayes his maiſter, I dare not motion anie thing to Stellio, till I knovve vvhat my boy hath don; Ile hunt him out, if the loiterſacke be gone ſpringing into a tauerne, Ile fetch him reeling out.”

18. fiil To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.

    “Ne did ſhe let dull ſleepe once to relent, / Nor wearineſſe to ſlack her haſt, but fled / Euer alike,[…].”

19. fiil To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.

    “Lime slacks.”

20. fiil To refuse to work as hard as one is supposed to.

    “I can't afford to slack. This job is all I have!”

21. isim A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.

    “The train runs slowly with frequent slacks for bridge and culvert repairs. At one point occurs the changeover from left- to right-hand running.”

22. isim A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.

    “Red Ringan sped, and the spearmen led, Up Goranberry Slack; Aye, many a wight, unmatched in fight, Who never more came back. And bloody set the westering sun, And bloody rose he up; […]”

23. isim A flat-bottomed, hollow zone within a sand-dune system that has developed over impervious strata, sometimes due to erosion or blow-out of the dune system; its flat base level is therefore close to or at the permanent water-table level, and therefore has rich, marshy flora, with Salix species (willows) as typical woody colonisers.
24. isim Small coal; coal dust.

    “One of the important improvements of recent years has been attained by mixing the peat pulp as it passes through the grinding machine, with other inflammable materials, such as bituminous coal dust, or slack […]”

25. özel isim A surname.
26. özel isim A hamlet in Ashover parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK3362).
27. özel isim A hamlet in Heptonstall parish, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SD9828).
28. özel isim A hamlet in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, near Outlane, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE0817).
29. özel isim A real-time collaboration app and platform launched in 2013.

    “On Slack, the employees of Strategic Programming chattered about metadata tagging issues.”