slack

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it. uncountable
    — the slack of a rope or of a sail
  2. Small coal; coal dust. uncountable
    — 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 […]
  3. A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge. countable
    — 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; […]
  4. A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
    — This pitfall, beginning in February and finishing in May, resulted in a drop of about 3 ft. in the platform level; during this period it was necessary to level the track three times weekly, and impose a service slack of 15 m.p.h. The subsidence appears now to have finished, and normal speed is once again permitted.
  5. A dip in a surface. countable,uncountable
    — Richardson states that a low joint, a short distance from Haslam's Creek Bridge, was, in his opinion, the cause of the accident. […] [He] told Morgan, the Permanent Way Inspector, that there was a "slack" in the road on the Parramatta side of Haslam's Creek Bridge, […] I can positively state […] There was no such slack. The road was in as good running condition as I would wish to see any road. On all lines of course there are slacks, but not slacks of a serious nature; and that there was any such slack or depression in the rails as spoken of by Richardson I positively deny.
  6. 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.
  7. In particular, a shallow dell or hollow; a dip in the surface of terrain, such as between hills. countable,uncountable
    — Cauldstane Slap, or rather Slack, is a much frequented pass, through which the periodical droves of black cattle are transported into England.
  8. A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains. countable
    — 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[…]
  9. Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient. uncountable
    — 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."
  10. Attributive form of slacks (“semi-formal trousers”). attributive,countable,form-of,uncountable
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To slacken. ambitransitive
    — 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.
  2. To mitigate; to reduce the strength of. obsolete
    — Ne did ſhe let dull ſleepe once to relent, / Nor wearineſſe to ſlack her haſt, but fled / Euer alike,[…].
  3. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
    — Lime slacks.
  4. To refuse to work as hard as one is supposed to.
    — I can't afford to slack. This job is all I have!
形容词 adj.
  1. Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
    — a slack rope
  2. Weak; not holding fast.
    — a slack hand
  3. Moderate in some capacity.; Moderately warm.
    — a slack oven
  4. Moderate in some capacity.; Moderate in speed.
    — a slack wind
  5. Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
    — slack in duty or service
  6. Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
    — Business is slack.
  7. Excess; surplus to requirements.
    — the slack capacity of an oil pipeline
  8. Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music. Caribbean,Jamaica,slang
  9. Lax.
副词 adv.
  1. Slackly. not-comparable
    — slack dried hops

词形变化

slacks plural slacker comparative slackest superlative slacks present,singular,third-person slacking participle,present slacked participle,past slacked past slacks plural slacks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cut someone slack cut someone some slack Holme Slack pick up the slack slack action slack suit take up the slack forslack nonslack overslack slackadaisical slack Alice slack bob slacken slackery slack fill slackful slack-handed slackish slack-jawed slack-key slackline slackly slackness slackpack slack-rope slack space slacktivism slacktivist slack variable slack-water slack water slackwater slackwire unslack multislack slack off slack up

词源

词源 1
From Middle English slak, from Old English slæc (“slack”), from Proto-Germanic *slakaz. For sense of coal dust, compare slag.
词源 2
From Middle English slakken, slaken, from Old English slacian, from Proto-Germanic *slakōną (“to slack, slacken”).
词源 3
Either from the adjective in Etymology 1 or the verb in Etymology 2.
词源 4
From Middle English slak, from Old Norse slakki (“a slope”). Cognate with Icelandic slakki, Norwegian slakke.
词源 5
Of unknown origin. Possibly related to Middle Dutch slacke or Middle Low German slecke. Doublet of slag.
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