tack

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /tæk/    美 /tæk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small nail with a flat head. countable,uncountable
    — A tough test for even the strongest climber, it was new to the Tour de France this year, but its debut will be remembered for the wrong reasons after one of those spectators scattered carpet tacks on the road and induced around 30 punctures among the group of riders including Bradley Wiggins, the Tour's overall leader, and his chief rivals.
  2. A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease. Northern-England,Scotland
    — 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.
  3. That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy. colloquial,uncountable
    — 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.
  4. A stain; a tache.
  5. A thumbtack. countable,uncountable
  6. A peculiar flavour or taint. obsolete
    — a musty tack
  7. A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth. countable,uncountable
  8. The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind. countable,uncountable
  9. A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind. countable,uncountable
  10. A direction or course of action, especially a new one; a method or approach to solving a problem. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — So stoutly held to tack by those near North-wales men;
  11. The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other. countable,uncountable
  12. The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board. countable,uncountable
  13. 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. countable,uncountable
  14. Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals. countable,uncountable
  15. The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties. countable,uncountable
    — The laminate adhesive has very aggressive tack and is hard to move once in place.
  16. Food generally; fare, especially of the hard bread or breadlike kind. countable,uncountable
    — Near-synonyms: biscuit, bread
  17. That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. countable,uncountable
    — Some tacks had been made to money bills in King Charles's time.
  18. Confidence; reliance. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — He should find[…]that there was tack in it, that it was solid silver, or silver that had strength in it.
动词 v.
  1. To nail (something) with a tack (small nail with a flat head). transitive
    — 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.
  2. To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
  3. To weld with initial small welds to temporarily fasten in preparation for full welding.
  4. 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.
  5. To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind. intransitive
  6. To add something as an extra item.
    — to tack (something) onto (something)
  7. Synonym of tack up (“to prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with a tack”).
  8. To join in wedlock. obsolete,slang

词形变化

tacks plural tache alternative tacks present,singular,third-person tacking participle,present tacked participle,past tacked past tacks plural tacks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bartack Blu-Tack change of tack coffin tack detack down tack false tack get down to brass tacks hardtack hold tack on the tack sharp as a tack sit on a tack switch tack tackboard tack claw tacker tackify tackless tacklifter tack lifter tack room tacksman tack weld thumbtack tie tack tintack untack short-tack retack tack about tack down tack on tack together tack up
相关词
tacky Blu-Tack

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tak, takke (“hook; staple; nail”), from Old Northern French taque (“nail, pin, peg”), from Frankish *takkō (“twig, branch, shoot”), of unknown origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dHgʰ-n-, from the root *déHgʰ- (“to pinch; to tear, rip, fray”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Takke (“bough; branch; twig”), West Frisian takke (“branch”), tûk (“branch, smart, sharp”), Dutch tak (“twig; branch; limb”), German Zacke (“jag; prong; spike; tooth; peak”).
词源 2
From Middle English takken (“to attach; nail”), from the noun (see above).
词源 3
From an old or dialectal form of French tache. See techy. Doublet of tache.
词源 4
Back-formation from tacky.
词源 5
From Middle English tak, take (“fee, tax (on livestock)”), from Old Norse tak, taka (“a taking, seizure; revenue”), from Old Norse taka (“to take”). Cognate with Scots tack.
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