Tack

[tæk]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) sailing a zigzag course.

(noun.) (nautical) the act of changing tack.

(noun.) a short nail with a sharp point and a large head.

(noun.) the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails.

(verb.) fasten with tacks; 'tack the notice on the board'.

(verb.) turn into the wind; 'The sailors decided to tack the boat'; 'The boat tacked'.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) A stain; a tache.

(n.) A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack.

(n.) A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.

(n.) That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3.

(v. t.) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.

(v. t.) The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail).

(v. t.) The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction.

(v. t.) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.

(v. t.) Confidence; reliance.

(v. t.) To fasten or attach.

(v. t.) Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.

(v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to.

(v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course.

(v. i.) To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4.

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同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Fasten (slightly), attach, append, affix, tag.[2]. Nail (with tacks).[3]. (Naut.) Put about, change the course of.

v. n. (Naut.) Go about, tack ship.

n. Small nail.

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解釋/意思:

n. (prov.) any distinctive and permanent flavour.

n. a short sharp nail with a broad head: a fastening a long temporary stitch: the weather clew or foremost lower corner of any of the courses or of any sail set with a boom or gaff or of a flag also the rope by which such clew or tack is confined or fastened: the course of a ship in reference to the position of her sails: a determinate course the art of tacking hence a change of policy a strategical move: a shelf for drying cheese: term of a lease: adhesiveness sticky condition as of varnish &c.—v.t. to attach or fasten esp. in a slight manner as by tacks.—v.i. to change the course or tack of a ship by shifting the position of the sails: to shift one's position to veer.—adj. Tack′y adhesive viscous.

n. food generally fare esp. of the bread kind as hard tack soft tack &c.

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