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noun taktæk 1A small, sharp broad-headed nail. 大头钉，平头钉 tacks held the remaining rags of carpet to the floor Example sentencesExamples - I got two kitchen chairs recently that are pretty nice except for this fabric, so I holed myself up today with some upholstery tacks and my fabric and got to work.
- Here, we padded a wall with batting and fabric, then secured crisscrossing ribbons with fabric tacks.
- One room we were decorating, I put copper tacks all over the wall, and I connected them with colored yarn.
- A chair made entirely of nails, barbed wire, tacks, and sand paper would be more comfortable.
- The tack hammers are very small but the actual tacks themselves are very sharp.
- For added support and color, ribbons run through the centers of the wreaths and fasten to the top of the door frame with tacks.
- The only ever so slightly disconcerting thing is that I had eight screws and four tacks left over at the end.
- Pull the webbing tight and tack it in place using two rows of size 12 tacks.
- These make great places to store nails, screws, nut, bolts, washers, tacks, and staples.
- Production on this scale required a high degree of organization and many suppliers for the webbing, stuffing, covering, fringe, tacks, and nails.
- All the separate pieces are precariously held together with glue, tape, tacks, and pins.
- He took the yarn and looped it around each of the tacks in order.
- Stretch the sheet over the door, securing with tacks along the outer edges.
- Today the anchors and chain, piles of hardware that broke through as the vessel tilted, iron ballast, bronze pins, lead hull sheathing, tacks, musket and pistol shot, cannonballs and cannon - all lie scattered where the ship's bow struck.
- Clean-up crews were called to the scene as the van had shed its load of nails and tacks and roadblocks were set up outside the George Ward School in Melksham, while other diversions were put in place.
- ‘I tried curry combs, cat brushes and Velcro but finally settled on a simple 4-inch square of carpet with a few small tacks sticking through it,’ he says.
- And as you can see, there are nails or tacks affixed to the side, held in place with plastic wrap.
- In the house, the canisters are good for storing tacks, nails, and small screws.
- As we excavated this area we found tiny pieces of twisted gold wire, gold foil, and little gold tacks, presumably used to tack the foil onto a wooden object sitting on a post.
- You could stick tacks, staples, pins, or just about anything sharp in it and you could take it right back out.
Synonyms pin, drawing pin, nail, tin tack, staple, spike, rivet, stud North American thumb tack - 1.1North American A drawing pin.
〈北美〉图钉 here are some tacks—put up a notice Example sentencesExamples - Insert map pins, metal tacks, and pushpins with plastic heads to create dots, stripes, and hearts.
- Startlingly, her creative materials include marker caps, spools of thread, tacks, stickers, and pipe cleaners.
- Chapters and medical facilities wishing to display a poster should bring it to the convention center and affix it to the display board provided with materials they supply (eg, tacks, hook and loop fasteners).
- Ryan tugged gently at the tacks on the corners of a poster until they released from the wall.
- ‘You wore labels last year,’ Tiffany said suddenly, looking the tiniest bit disbelieving as she jumped into the conversation, placing her box of tacks down onto her desk.
- This wooden tote comes to the rescue by organizing all the necessary implements, including pens, self-adhesive notepads, tacks, and paper dips.
- The man picked up a tack from a rickety wooden table and fastened the clipping to a paint-peeled wall.
2A long stitch used to fasten fabrics together temporarily, prior to permanent sewing. （为定样临时缝上的）粗缝针脚 3A method of dealing with a situation or problem; a course of action or policy. 〈喻〉（解决问题的）方法；行动方针，策略 as she could not stop him going she tried another tack and insisted on going with him 因为她不能阻拦他去，于是她换了个方法坚持要和他一起去。 Example sentencesExamples - Although we might expect him to respond to such success with decorum, he took the opposite tack, highlighting his improprieties and provocations.
- Instead, trustees will take a different tack during their 30-minute meeting.
- However, when Russia sent Sputnik into orbit in October 1957, he changed tack and put his efforts into America's space exploration programme.
- The reason I adopt this tack is because entropy of the universe is said to be directional.
- Changing tack, I decided the bar staff might be better placed to help.
- In the summer of 1998, when the Bank was still getting used to independence, it changed tack abruptly from raising rates in the summer to cutting them in the autumn.
- The opposite tack, deleting most messages, is also risky.
- The first tack, known as Plan A, is the latest version of Ottawa's appeasement strategy.
- Having worn out these straw men almost completely, educators are trying a new tack.
- So he changed tack, keeping the innovative production methods but applying them to better-known repertoire, until he felt he had built up an audience that was loyal to the company.
- Taking a different tack, he proposed in 1746 to build two more clocks.
- Far from abandoning it when he changed tack, it is still going strong.
- We were underweight but changed tack about a month ago and are now slightly overweight.
- But since gay marriage is such a hot button, he suggests we take a different tack to achieve equality: let's get rid of straight marriage!
- Two years ago the tack was changed again.
- Although the British made some initial moves in that direction, they soon changed tack.
- We take a simpler tack, serving the roast chicken - colored deep red by the ground annato seeds in the achiote paste - on a bed of the sautéed onions.
- He is taking the opposite tack - and if he succeeds, it'll be the first time a new vaccine is launched in a country with massive medical need but little profit potential.
- Lobbying by the organisations failed to persuade the government to change tack, however.
Synonyms approach, way, method, process policy, procedure, technique, tactic, plan, strategy, stratagem, programme, line of attack course of action, line of action, path, line, angle, direction, course 4Sailing
An act of changing course by turning a boat's head into and through the wind, so as to bring the wind on the opposite side. 〔航海〕抢风调向 Example sentencesExamples - As the pair battled to the finish, Ian immediately tacked off to gain clear wind, but Jonathan timed his next tack well and came back to cover Ian across the line and win the event by half a boat length.
- As I approach my first tack, I pull in the main sail.
- The enemy ships made a clumsy tack northerly, not expecting to see Indefatigable in their path.
- Royal Caribbean has recognized that it is heading for this iceberg, and its captains have ordered a sharp tack.
- 4.1 A boat's course relative to the direction of the wind.
抢风航行路线 the brig bowled past on the opposite tack 这只双桅船在顺风道上快速平稳地行驶。 Example sentencesExamples - They steer onto a port tack and begin to sail.
- There was indeed a ship headed in the direction of Dolphin which was still on her southeasterly tack while Indefatigable was now headed northwest.
- On the water, a yacht on starboard tack has undisputed right-of-way in any confrontation.
- Bowles gave the order to bring the Indy on a northeasterly larboard tack.
- As we started the climb, I told the crew that they must helm the yacht very carefully on the opposite tack, as the rigging was only holding up one side of the mast.
Synonyms heading, bearing, direction, course, track, path, line - 4.2 A distance sailed between tacks.
抢风航程 it's a shame to see a yacht drop her sails and start the diesel just because she has to make a few short tacks Example sentencesExamples - The mainly south-westerly air-stream, alternating with south-easterlies, turned the beat to Temple into a series of short tacks as the fickle breeze tempted boats on to a course before dying away and changing direction.
- On the short windward leg to the finish, Pilgrim drew alongside Naiad, but was then forced to put in a short tack while Naiad was able to hold her line and clinch a deserved second place and victory in the Classic fleet.
- Terrified of turning the boat into a land-yacht, I minced around in the middle of the navigation in uselessly short tacks that took us no appreciable distance against the wind.
- On the long beat back to Henholme, Fiscal Folly crossed the lake to the west shore, while F for Joy set a course down the east, with the rest of the fleet on shorter tacks in the centre of the lake.
5Sailing
A rope for securing the corner of certain sails. 〔航海〕（系住帆角的）系帆索 - 5.1 The corner to which a rope is fastened.
（用系帆索）系住的帆角
6mass noun The quality of being sticky. 黏着性，黏着力 cooking the sugar to caramel gives tack to the texture 把糖熬成焦糖能使质地更有黏性。
verb taktæk 1with object and adverbial Fasten or fix in place with tacks. 用平头钉钉 he used the tool to tack down sheets of fibreboard 他用工具把纤维板用平头钉钉在一起。 Example sentencesExamples - Otherwise we recommend ripping this page from the magazine and tacking it up alongside those calendar girls who mock you from above your workbench.
- If squirrels become a problem at a tree-mounted feeder, tack a 3-foot section of sheet metal around the trunk or branch.
- Sometime in the late 16th century, furniture makers put padding and the cushion together and covered them with a decorative outer material that was then tacked to the chair's frame.
- Then, I saw a lottery ticket that I think someone had tacked up on the wall.
- Tassels hung from her ceiling fan and sketches were still tacked to the wall.
- Temporarily tack it in place at the top and bottom.
- The fabric is stretched over the frame and tacked or stapled into place.
- Working in opposite corners, pull the fabric tight, roll edges under, and temporarily tack in place.
- Push the panel into the glued surface and use a level to make certain it is plumb before you tack it into position and glue it down permanently.
- When our firstborn, Nate, started walking, she tacked a cloth tape to the inside wall of our closet and measured his progress against the pencil marks she made on the wall.
- In many places, his telegraph line was simply tacked onto trees instead of being tacked onto poles.
- To use the guide, align the cut edge with your cut line and clamp or tack the guide to your workpiece.
- So my first act as the room's inhabitant was tacking a few posters to the walls and planting framed snapshots of my close circle of friends on the shelves.
- Despite the weeks he spent tacking posters to walls, only 30 people turned up.
- He took it without a word, tacking it to the bulletin board over his desk.
- Unless you are quite handy with a circular saw, it's a good idea to clamp or tack a guide onto the work piece.
- There was only one other guy in the room but he appeared to be busy tacking something to the sand-coloured wall.
- Some designs are glued to the walls or ceiling, while most are tacked on with small nails.
- Rigid foam board insulation is tacked onto the exterior sheathing, fortifying the thermal shield.
- Just tack them to the back of the frame, or glue on with a hot glue gun.
Synonyms pin, nail, staple, fix, fasten, attach, secure, affix, put up, put down - 1.1with object and adverbial Fasten (pieces of cloth) together temporarily with long stitches.
（为定样而）用粗缝针脚缝 when the dress was roughly tacked together, she tried it on Example sentencesExamples - I use these ends to sew the corners more securely by invisibly tacking them down to the coat.
- If you think it may get sloppy and peek out you can easily tack it to the shirt body on the front and bottom facing seam lines or into the ribbing seam if ribbing is left at the bottom.
- Fringe two same-sized strips, then stack, tack them together and use as one piece.
- The seams should be tacked down to avoid chafing.
Synonyms stitch, baste, sew, bind, hem - 1.2tack something on Add or append something to something already existing.
增加；增补 the castles have new wings and other bits tacked on customers tell of surprise ‘nuisance fees’ tacked on to every transaction Example sentencesExamples - Of course, these calculations are based on what the chancellor announced yesterday and, like most Budgets, details and amendments are tacked on in the following months, often with little publicity.
- Is it that the architects didn't bother to read the regulations, and tacked it on afterwards?
- I'm sure some of these may have had more realistic endings and the happier ones were tacked on by the demands of the studio, who always avoid offending the public.
- Just when I was standing to leave, I decided to tack something on to our meaningful conversation.
- It says the final tab, however, can go several million dollars higher as extra costs are tacked on.
- Although the word ‘conspiracy’ simply refers to the act of joining together in secret agreement to do a wrongful act, tacking it on as an adjective somehow evokes images of unfounded fears and even paranoia.
- This tax is a percentage of the assessed value of the portion of real property occupied or used, and it is tacked on top of the commercial property tax.
- If a pun related to the animal can be tacked on it must be, no matter how lame the joke is.
- The last scene in particular appears out of place, almost as if it was tacked on at a later date to provide a better sense of closure.
- I just wrote this in an email and since I liked it better than what I wrote above, I thought I'd just tack it on.
- Yes, that was slightly different in that, as part of the sentencing process, it was tacked on.
- I often tack holidays on the end of tours, but this is sacred: I never work when I'm skiing.
- The final settlement could balloon to $130 million after interest and lawyers' fees are tacked on.
- Designing security into systems from the beginning, instead of tacking it on at the end, would give us the security we need, while preserving the civil liberties we hold dear.
- Needless to say, there is usually some thematic crossover; however in many cases the theme is tacked on so weakly that the historical theme alone is all that stands between the engrossing and the bland.
- Hitchcock seems disinterested in the relationship, tacking it on to fulfill audience expectations.
- The bill suggests that it will be fairer to lift the excise duty on fuel, rather than tacking the increased cost on to the registration fee.
- But when the visitors get to Pattaya, they are fleeced when extra charges are tacked on when they arrive.
- Instead, the philosophical bits are tacked on in set speeches - much like in student essays, really.
- It has been introduced without the ownership of the providers themselves, and it was tacked on to a bill that had an industry training levy fund in it.
Synonyms attach, add, append, join, tag, annex
2Sailing
no object Change course by turning a boat's head into and through the wind. 〔航海〕抢风调向 their boat was now downwind and they had to tack Compare with wear Example sentencesExamples - We sight Northern Caye, our anchorage for the night, on the horizon and tack to starboard.
- He spotted it, and they quickly tacked over west.
- She was tacking to come around on Indefatigable's starboard side.
- 2.1with object Alter the course of (a boat) by tacking.
使（船）抢风航行 I tacked the ship shortly after midnight Example sentencesExamples - Watching his handpicked crew in action, expertly tacking the boat, it's hard to believe Team Adventure will stand a chance against his well-funded campaign.
- This is a good arrangement for some sailors, but tacking the Genoa will require going forward to pull the sail through the slot or furling the Genoa and unfurling it on the new tack.
- After another half hour, the wind shifts, and the guys on deck need to tack the boat.
- 2.2with adverbial of direction Make a series of changes of course while sailing.
航行中换抢航进 but what happens when you have to tack up a narrow channel singlehanded? Example sentencesExamples - There she tacked east to west in the lee of the island, and reported winds gusting to 60 knots from the west-northwest, and large to moderate seas.
- I had a mental picture of the surface with the sun shining, and sailing boats tacking to and fro.
- Added to the tremendous loading on an anchor line in high winds is the fact that in high winds boats do not tend to lie head to wind, but rather tack back and forth.
- She points to the left side of the bay, where a small sailing boat is tacking past the tumble of fallen cliff.
- Standing a moment longer on the shore he watches the dinghy, until it tacks out of sight on the far side of the broad bay, heading for harbour.
Synonyms change course, change direction, change heading swerve, zigzag veer off/away Nautical go about, come about, beat, sail into the wind
Phraseson the port (or starboard) tack With the wind coming from the port (or starboard) side of the boat. 〔航海〕左（或右）弦抢风 as soon as the yacht is established on the starboard tack, the jib sheet is let fly Example sentencesExamples - The boat will turn almost 180° and you will find yourself back on the port tack you were on before the beginning of the maneuver.
- When the boat was sailed on the starboard tack, seawater was siphoning into the boat.
- It is also easy to just put yourself on a broad reach on the starboard tack any time you wish to use the spinnaker to go downwind.
- If the tidal stream sets towards the right of the apparent wind, boats on the starboard tack will be freed and boats on the port tack will be headed.
- We push on but our mainsail trim needs that runner on the port tack and we drop away a little from the class leaders.
Derivativesnoun Each contains 100 coasters, three 30-inch pennant strings, 36 party beads, and three wall tackers. Example sentencesExamples - Use a tacker or staple gun to secure the layer of plastic below the horizontal screw strips on the sides.
- Instead of using poisonous glue you could nail it on or use a tacker.
OriginMiddle English (in the general sense 'something that fastens one thing to another'): probably related to Old French tache 'clasp, large nail'. tacky from late 18th century: The origin of tacky in the sense ‘sticky’ is from the word tack (Middle English) ‘to fasten lightly’, or for an object that does that job. The origin of this word is obscure. The sense of tacky meaning ‘in poor taste, cheap’ is different, but equally obscure. It was first found at the beginning of the 19th century in the USA meaning a weedy horse. By the late 19th century it was applied to a poor white in some southern states, and had also acquired its modern sense. The shortening tack did not happen until the 1980s. The sense tack for horses equipment is a shortening of tackle.
Rhymesaback, alack, attack, back, black, brack, clack, claque, crack, Dirac, drack, flack, flak, hack, jack, Kazakh, knack, lack, lakh, mac, mach, Nagorno-Karabakh, pack, pitchblack, plaque, quack, rack, sac, sack, shack, shellac, slack, smack, snack, stack, tach, thwack, track, vac, wack, whack, wrack, yak, Zack noun taktæk mass nounEquipment used in horse riding, including the saddle and bridle. 鞍辔；马具 Example sentencesExamples - Whilst waiting for the wagons, the boys organised sentries, checked their horses' tack, loaded their revolvers and relaxed.
- After the two had managed to set up the horse's tack, Allen stepped out of the stall, grinning broadly.
- She dismounted in front of Shadowed Fury's stall, and took off his tack and began to groom the stallion into perfection.
- A young leukaemia sufferer has endured a further blow after thieves stole riding tack belonging to a family friend who had just bought a horse for her to enjoy riding.
- The film industry still does not come close to using remotely authentic-looking horse tack and, for the most part, never did.
- He smiled down at her and leaned back against the tack and saddlebags that they'd piled on top of each other.
- The three stood in silence and watched as the defenders made final adjustments to their armor and their horses' tack.
- Horses are shod with iron shoes and fitted with salvaged horse tack.
- The last two to three times you work your horse before the show, ride her with your show tack and make sure all equipment fits properly.
- Along with making riding tack from scratch, he also mends pieces and fits his work to the horse.
- Though there was a large amount of care equipment, tack, and supplies, there were only four horses.
- Too many training methods place too much emphasis on what kind of tack or equipment to use with the trainer conveniently selling that equipment.
- Keen riders and horse owners were urged to attend the awareness day to help prevent thefts of trailers, tack and horse boxes.
- Use of defective tack is not a risk of horseback riding that an equine provider is unable to eliminate.
- At present they have to travel to the stables, carrying saddles and other tack, every day and to ensure the security of the property.
- She passed the tree where the horse's tack was propped and grabbed Hawk's bridle, the silverwork glinting in the moonlight.
- New materials will also be used for tack and horse equipment.
- Though he had left his leather hauberk with his horse's tack and dunked his head in a water barrel, he still felt too uncomfortable to eat much.
- A good horse is a good horse, regardless of what sort of tack it's ridden in.
- When they stopped and made camp, she was unable to relieve her horse of its tack.
OriginLate 18th century (originally dialect in the general sense 'apparatus, equipment'): contraction of tackle. The current sense dates from the 1920s. noun taktæk mass nouninformal Cheap, shoddy, or tasteless material. 〈非正式〉便宜货；劣质品 this pop will never trivialize itself and be described as cheap tack Example sentencesExamples - If the makers of the film did one thing right, with what is otherwise wholly sentimental tack, it was to cast these two as the leads.
- Tourist tack is almost absent; instead, there are a number of delicatessens, a good wine bar, an antiquarian bookshop and even a shop specialising in period jewellery.
- Only five minutes from the rivers of tourist tack around the station, but miles away in spirit, this tiny store perches on a corner near the top of the Canale di Cannaregio.
- The assumption that 50s consumers didn't know tack when they saw it is about as safe as the assumption that 50s teenagers didn't have sex.
- In LaChapelle's interpretation of the desert oasis, it is almost as if the city does not know that it is the epitome of tack and distaste.
- Rather than set out to offer an alternative to novelty acts, it cashes in on cheap tongue-in-cheek tack.
Origin1980s: back-formation from tacky2. nountaktæk 1A small, sharp broad-headed nail. 大头钉，平头钉 Example sentencesExamples - He took the yarn and looped it around each of the tacks in order.
- In the house, the canisters are good for storing tacks, nails, and small screws.
- All the separate pieces are precariously held together with glue, tape, tacks, and pins.
- You could stick tacks, staples, pins, or just about anything sharp in it and you could take it right back out.
- ‘I tried curry combs, cat brushes and Velcro but finally settled on a simple 4-inch square of carpet with a few small tacks sticking through it,’ he says.
- Clean-up crews were called to the scene as the van had shed its load of nails and tacks and roadblocks were set up outside the George Ward School in Melksham, while other diversions were put in place.
- Stretch the sheet over the door, securing with tacks along the outer edges.
- Today the anchors and chain, piles of hardware that broke through as the vessel tilted, iron ballast, bronze pins, lead hull sheathing, tacks, musket and pistol shot, cannonballs and cannon - all lie scattered where the ship's bow struck.
- For added support and color, ribbons run through the centers of the wreaths and fasten to the top of the door frame with tacks.
- Production on this scale required a high degree of organization and many suppliers for the webbing, stuffing, covering, fringe, tacks, and nails.
- I got two kitchen chairs recently that are pretty nice except for this fabric, so I holed myself up today with some upholstery tacks and my fabric and got to work.
- The only ever so slightly disconcerting thing is that I had eight screws and four tacks left over at the end.
- Here, we padded a wall with batting and fabric, then secured crisscrossing ribbons with fabric tacks.
- A chair made entirely of nails, barbed wire, tacks, and sand paper would be more comfortable.
- The tack hammers are very small but the actual tacks themselves are very sharp.
- Pull the webbing tight and tack it in place using two rows of size 12 tacks.
- As we excavated this area we found tiny pieces of twisted gold wire, gold foil, and little gold tacks, presumably used to tack the foil onto a wooden object sitting on a post.
- One room we were decorating, I put copper tacks all over the wall, and I connected them with colored yarn.
- These make great places to store nails, screws, nut, bolts, washers, tacks, and staples.
- And as you can see, there are nails or tacks affixed to the side, held in place with plastic wrap.
Synonyms pin, drawing pin, nail, tin tack, staple, spike, rivet, stud - 1.1North American A thumbtack.
Example sentencesExamples - The man picked up a tack from a rickety wooden table and fastened the clipping to a paint-peeled wall.
- Startlingly, her creative materials include marker caps, spools of thread, tacks, stickers, and pipe cleaners.
- This wooden tote comes to the rescue by organizing all the necessary implements, including pens, self-adhesive notepads, tacks, and paper dips.
- Insert map pins, metal tacks, and pushpins with plastic heads to create dots, stripes, and hearts.
- Chapters and medical facilities wishing to display a poster should bring it to the convention center and affix it to the display board provided with materials they supply (eg, tacks, hook and loop fasteners).
- ‘You wore labels last year,’ Tiffany said suddenly, looking the tiniest bit disbelieving as she jumped into the conversation, placing her box of tacks down onto her desk.
- Ryan tugged gently at the tacks on the corners of a poster until they released from the wall.
2A long stitch used to fasten fabrics together temporarily, prior to permanent sewing. （为定样临时缝上的）粗缝针脚 3A method of dealing with a situation or problem; a course of action or policy. 〈喻〉（解决问题的）方法；行动方针，策略 as she could not stop him from going she tried another tack and insisted on going with him 因为她不能阻拦他去，于是她换了个方法坚持要和他一起去。 Example sentencesExamples - Although the British made some initial moves in that direction, they soon changed tack.
- The reason I adopt this tack is because entropy of the universe is said to be directional.
- Changing tack, I decided the bar staff might be better placed to help.
- The first tack, known as Plan A, is the latest version of Ottawa's appeasement strategy.
- Lobbying by the organisations failed to persuade the government to change tack, however.
- Having worn out these straw men almost completely, educators are trying a new tack.
- Instead, trustees will take a different tack during their 30-minute meeting.
- He is taking the opposite tack - and if he succeeds, it'll be the first time a new vaccine is launched in a country with massive medical need but little profit potential.
- Although we might expect him to respond to such success with decorum, he took the opposite tack, highlighting his improprieties and provocations.
- The opposite tack, deleting most messages, is also risky.
- We were underweight but changed tack about a month ago and are now slightly overweight.
- Taking a different tack, he proposed in 1746 to build two more clocks.
- Two years ago the tack was changed again.
- However, when Russia sent Sputnik into orbit in October 1957, he changed tack and put his efforts into America's space exploration programme.
- We take a simpler tack, serving the roast chicken - colored deep red by the ground annato seeds in the achiote paste - on a bed of the sautéed onions.
- So he changed tack, keeping the innovative production methods but applying them to better-known repertoire, until he felt he had built up an audience that was loyal to the company.
- Far from abandoning it when he changed tack, it is still going strong.
- But since gay marriage is such a hot button, he suggests we take a different tack to achieve equality: let's get rid of straight marriage!
- In the summer of 1998, when the Bank was still getting used to independence, it changed tack abruptly from raising rates in the summer to cutting them in the autumn.
Synonyms approach, way, method, process 4Sailing
An act of changing course by turning a vessel's head into and through the wind, so as to bring the wind on the opposite side. 〔航海〕抢风调向 Example sentencesExamples - Royal Caribbean has recognized that it is heading for this iceberg, and its captains have ordered a sharp tack.
- As I approach my first tack, I pull in the main sail.
- The enemy ships made a clumsy tack northerly, not expecting to see Indefatigable in their path.
- As the pair battled to the finish, Ian immediately tacked off to gain clear wind, but Jonathan timed his next tack well and came back to cover Ian across the line and win the event by half a boat length.
- 4.1 A boat's course relative to the direction of the wind.
抢风航行路线 the brig bowled past on the opposite tack 这只双桅船在顺风道上快速平稳地行驶。 Example sentencesExamples - Bowles gave the order to bring the Indy on a northeasterly larboard tack.
- They steer onto a port tack and begin to sail.
- As we started the climb, I told the crew that they must helm the yacht very carefully on the opposite tack, as the rigging was only holding up one side of the mast.
- There was indeed a ship headed in the direction of Dolphin which was still on her southeasterly tack while Indefatigable was now headed northwest.
- On the water, a yacht on starboard tack has undisputed right-of-way in any confrontation.
Synonyms heading, bearing, direction, course, track, path, line - 4.2 A distance sailed between changes of course.
抢风航程 Example sentencesExamples - Terrified of turning the boat into a land-yacht, I minced around in the middle of the navigation in uselessly short tacks that took us no appreciable distance against the wind.
- The mainly south-westerly air-stream, alternating with south-easterlies, turned the beat to Temple into a series of short tacks as the fickle breeze tempted boats on to a course before dying away and changing direction.
- On the long beat back to Henholme, Fiscal Folly crossed the lake to the west shore, while F for Joy set a course down the east, with the rest of the fleet on shorter tacks in the centre of the lake.
- On the short windward leg to the finish, Pilgrim drew alongside Naiad, but was then forced to put in a short tack while Naiad was able to hold her line and clinch a deserved second place and victory in the Classic fleet.
5Sailing
A rope for securing the weather clew of a course. 〔航海〕（系住帆角的）系帆索 - 5.1 The weather clew of a course, or the lower forward corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
6The quality of being sticky. 黏着性，黏着力 cooking the sugar to caramel gives tack to the texture 把糖熬成焦糖能使质地更有黏性。
verbtaktæk 1with object and adverbial Fasten or fix in place with tacks. 用平头钉钉 he used the tool to tack down sheets of fiberboard 他用工具把纤维板用平头钉钉在一起。 Example sentencesExamples - When our firstborn, Nate, started walking, she tacked a cloth tape to the inside wall of our closet and measured his progress against the pencil marks she made on the wall.
- Sometime in the late 16th century, furniture makers put padding and the cushion together and covered them with a decorative outer material that was then tacked to the chair's frame.
- Tassels hung from her ceiling fan and sketches were still tacked to the wall.
- Despite the weeks he spent tacking posters to walls, only 30 people turned up.
- There was only one other guy in the room but he appeared to be busy tacking something to the sand-coloured wall.
- Rigid foam board insulation is tacked onto the exterior sheathing, fortifying the thermal shield.
- He took it without a word, tacking it to the bulletin board over his desk.
- Then, I saw a lottery ticket that I think someone had tacked up on the wall.
- To use the guide, align the cut edge with your cut line and clamp or tack the guide to your workpiece.
- Push the panel into the glued surface and use a level to make certain it is plumb before you tack it into position and glue it down permanently.
- So my first act as the room's inhabitant was tacking a few posters to the walls and planting framed snapshots of my close circle of friends on the shelves.
- Unless you are quite handy with a circular saw, it's a good idea to clamp or tack a guide onto the work piece.
- The fabric is stretched over the frame and tacked or stapled into place.
- Some designs are glued to the walls or ceiling, while most are tacked on with small nails.
- Temporarily tack it in place at the top and bottom.
- If squirrels become a problem at a tree-mounted feeder, tack a 3-foot section of sheet metal around the trunk or branch.
- Otherwise we recommend ripping this page from the magazine and tacking it up alongside those calendar girls who mock you from above your workbench.
- Working in opposite corners, pull the fabric tight, roll edges under, and temporarily tack in place.
- Just tack them to the back of the frame, or glue on with a hot glue gun.
- In many places, his telegraph line was simply tacked onto trees instead of being tacked onto poles.
Synonyms pin, nail, staple, fix, fasten, attach, secure, affix, put up, put down - 1.1 Fasten (pieces of cloth) together temporarily with long stitches.
（为定样而）用粗缝针脚缝 Example sentencesExamples - Fringe two same-sized strips, then stack, tack them together and use as one piece.
- I use these ends to sew the corners more securely by invisibly tacking them down to the coat.
- If you think it may get sloppy and peek out you can easily tack it to the shirt body on the front and bottom facing seam lines or into the ribbing seam if ribbing is left at the bottom.
- The seams should be tacked down to avoid chafing.
Synonyms stitch, baste, sew, bind, hem - 1.2tack something on Add or append something to something already existing.
增加；增补 long-term savings plans with some life insurance tacked on Example sentencesExamples - It has been introduced without the ownership of the providers themselves, and it was tacked on to a bill that had an industry training levy fund in it.
- The final settlement could balloon to $130 million after interest and lawyers' fees are tacked on.
- I just wrote this in an email and since I liked it better than what I wrote above, I thought I'd just tack it on.
- I often tack holidays on the end of tours, but this is sacred: I never work when I'm skiing.
- The last scene in particular appears out of place, almost as if it was tacked on at a later date to provide a better sense of closure.
- Hitchcock seems disinterested in the relationship, tacking it on to fulfill audience expectations.
- It says the final tab, however, can go several million dollars higher as extra costs are tacked on.
- The bill suggests that it will be fairer to lift the excise duty on fuel, rather than tacking the increased cost on to the registration fee.
- Needless to say, there is usually some thematic crossover; however in many cases the theme is tacked on so weakly that the historical theme alone is all that stands between the engrossing and the bland.
- Although the word ‘conspiracy’ simply refers to the act of joining together in secret agreement to do a wrongful act, tacking it on as an adjective somehow evokes images of unfounded fears and even paranoia.
- Of course, these calculations are based on what the chancellor announced yesterday and, like most Budgets, details and amendments are tacked on in the following months, often with little publicity.
- Is it that the architects didn't bother to read the regulations, and tacked it on afterwards?
- If a pun related to the animal can be tacked on it must be, no matter how lame the joke is.
- This tax is a percentage of the assessed value of the portion of real property occupied or used, and it is tacked on top of the commercial property tax.
- Just when I was standing to leave, I decided to tack something on to our meaningful conversation.
- Instead, the philosophical bits are tacked on in set speeches - much like in student essays, really.
- Yes, that was slightly different in that, as part of the sentencing process, it was tacked on.
- But when the visitors get to Pattaya, they are fleeced when extra charges are tacked on when they arrive.
- Designing security into systems from the beginning, instead of tacking it on at the end, would give us the security we need, while preserving the civil liberties we hold dear.
- I'm sure some of these may have had more realistic endings and the happier ones were tacked on by the demands of the studio, who always avoid offending the public.
Synonyms attach, add, append, join, tag, annex
2Sailing
no object Change course by turning a boat's head into and through the wind. 〔航海〕抢风调向 Compare with wear Example sentencesExamples - She was tacking to come around on Indefatigable's starboard side.
- We sight Northern Caye, our anchorage for the night, on the horizon and tack to starboard.
- He spotted it, and they quickly tacked over west.
- 2.1with object Alter the course of (a sailboat).
使（船）抢风航行 Example sentencesExamples - After another half hour, the wind shifts, and the guys on deck need to tack the boat.
- Watching his handpicked crew in action, expertly tacking the boat, it's hard to believe Team Adventure will stand a chance against his well-funded campaign.
- This is a good arrangement for some sailors, but tacking the Genoa will require going forward to pull the sail through the slot or furling the Genoa and unfurling it on the new tack.
- 2.2with adverbial of direction Make a series of changes of course while sailing.
航行中换抢航进 she spent the entire night tacking back and forth 她整个晚上都在来回抢风航行。 Example sentencesExamples - There she tacked east to west in the lee of the island, and reported winds gusting to 60 knots from the west-northwest, and large to moderate seas.
- She points to the left side of the bay, where a small sailing boat is tacking past the tumble of fallen cliff.
- Added to the tremendous loading on an anchor line in high winds is the fact that in high winds boats do not tend to lie head to wind, but rather tack back and forth.
- I had a mental picture of the surface with the sun shining, and sailing boats tacking to and fro.
- Standing a moment longer on the shore he watches the dinghy, until it tacks out of sight on the far side of the broad bay, heading for harbour.
Synonyms change course, change direction, change heading
Phraseson the port (or starboard) tack With the wind coming from the port (or starboard) side of the boat. 〔航海〕左（或右）弦抢风 Example sentencesExamples - The boat will turn almost 180° and you will find yourself back on the port tack you were on before the beginning of the maneuver.
- It is also easy to just put yourself on a broad reach on the starboard tack any time you wish to use the spinnaker to go downwind.
- We push on but our mainsail trim needs that runner on the port tack and we drop away a little from the class leaders.
- When the boat was sailed on the starboard tack, seawater was siphoning into the boat.
- If the tidal stream sets towards the right of the apparent wind, boats on the starboard tack will be freed and boats on the port tack will be headed.
OriginMiddle English (in the general sense ‘something that fastens one thing to another’): probably related to Old French tache ‘clasp, large nail’. nountaktæk Equipment used in horseback riding, including the saddle and bridle. 鞍辔；马具 Example sentencesExamples - Whilst waiting for the wagons, the boys organised sentries, checked their horses' tack, loaded their revolvers and relaxed.
- A good horse is a good horse, regardless of what sort of tack it's ridden in.
- Horses are shod with iron shoes and fitted with salvaged horse tack.
- He smiled down at her and leaned back against the tack and saddlebags that they'd piled on top of each other.
- Along with making riding tack from scratch, he also mends pieces and fits his work to the horse.
- The last two to three times you work your horse before the show, ride her with your show tack and make sure all equipment fits properly.
- She dismounted in front of Shadowed Fury's stall, and took off his tack and began to groom the stallion into perfection.
- The three stood in silence and watched as the defenders made final adjustments to their armor and their horses' tack.
- Use of defective tack is not a risk of horseback riding that an equine provider is unable to eliminate.
- Too many training methods place too much emphasis on what kind of tack or equipment to use with the trainer conveniently selling that equipment.
- When they stopped and made camp, she was unable to relieve her horse of its tack.
- Keen riders and horse owners were urged to attend the awareness day to help prevent thefts of trailers, tack and horse boxes.
- She passed the tree where the horse's tack was propped and grabbed Hawk's bridle, the silverwork glinting in the moonlight.
- After the two had managed to set up the horse's tack, Allen stepped out of the stall, grinning broadly.
- Though there was a large amount of care equipment, tack, and supplies, there were only four horses.
- A young leukaemia sufferer has endured a further blow after thieves stole riding tack belonging to a family friend who had just bought a horse for her to enjoy riding.
- The film industry still does not come close to using remotely authentic-looking horse tack and, for the most part, never did.
- New materials will also be used for tack and horse equipment.
- Though he had left his leather hauberk with his horse's tack and dunked his head in a water barrel, he still felt too uncomfortable to eat much.
- At present they have to travel to the stables, carrying saddles and other tack, every day and to ensure the security of the property.
OriginLate 18th century (originally dialect in the general sense ‘apparatus, equipment’): contraction of tackle. The current sense dates from the 1920s. nountaktæk informal Cheap, shoddy, or tasteless material. 〈非正式〉便宜货；劣质品 this pop will never trivialize itself and be described as cheap tack Example sentencesExamples - In LaChapelle's interpretation of the desert oasis, it is almost as if the city does not know that it is the epitome of tack and distaste.
- Only five minutes from the rivers of tourist tack around the station, but miles away in spirit, this tiny store perches on a corner near the top of the Canale di Cannaregio.
- Tourist tack is almost absent; instead, there are a number of delicatessens, a good wine bar, an antiquarian bookshop and even a shop specialising in period jewellery.
- The assumption that 50s consumers didn't know tack when they saw it is about as safe as the assumption that 50s teenagers didn't have sex.
- If the makers of the film did one thing right, with what is otherwise wholly sentimental tack, it was to cast these two as the leads.
- Rather than set out to offer an alternative to novelty acts, it cashes in on cheap tongue-in-cheek tack.
Origin1980s: back-formation from tacky. |