tack
noun
[ tak ]
• a small, sharp broad-headed nail.
• "tacks held the remaining rags of carpet to the floor"
• a long stitch used to fasten fabrics together temporarily, prior to permanent sewing.
• a method of dealing with a situation or problem; a course of action or policy.
• "as she could not stop him going she tried another tack and insisted on going with him"
Similar:
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,
• 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.
• a rope for securing the corner of certain sails.
• the quality of being sticky.
• "cooking the sugar to caramel gives tack to the texture"
tack
verb
• fasten or fix in place with tacks.
• "he used the tool to tack down sheets of fibreboard"
Similar:
pin,
nail,
staple,
fix,
fasten,
attach,
secure,
affix,
put up,
put down,
• change course by turning a boat's head into and through the wind.
• "their boat was now downwind and they had to tack"
Origin:
Middle English (in the general sense ‘something that fastens one thing to another’): probably related to Old French tache ‘clasp, large nail’.
tack
noun
• equipment used in horse riding, including the saddle and bridle.
Origin:
late 18th century (originally dialect in the general sense ‘apparatus, equipment’): contraction of tackle. The current sense dates from the 1920s.
tack
noun
• cheap, shoddy, or tasteless material.
• "this pop will never trivialize itself and be described as cheap tack"
Origin:
1980s: back-formation from tacky2.
