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What (who) is tack$81420$ - definition
GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Dame Louise Lake-Tack; Lake-Tack; Louise Lake; Louise Tack
Tack
CLADE OF ARCHAEA
Eocyta; Bathyarchaeota; Geoarchaeota; Filarchaeota; TACK group; Bathyarchaeia
·noun A stain; a tache.
II. Tack ·vt To fasten or attach.
III. Tack ·vt Confidence; reliance.
IV. Tack ·noun A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack.
V. Tack ·noun A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.
VI. Tack ·noun That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. ·see Tack, ·vt, 3.
VII. Tack ·vt A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
VIII. Tack ·vt In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to Append;
- often with on or to.
IX. Tack ·vt 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).
X. Tack ·vt 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.
XI. Tack ·vi 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, ·vt, 4.
XII. Tack ·vt 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.
XIII. Tack ·vt 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.
XIV. Tack ·vt 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.
tack
CLADE OF ARCHAEA
Eocyta; Bathyarchaeota; Geoarchaeota; Filarchaeota; TACK group; Bathyarchaeia
tack1
¦ noun
1. a small, sharp broad-headed nail.
N. Amer. a drawing pin.
2. a long stitch used to fasten fabrics together temporarily, prior to permanent sewing.
3. a course of action: there is no reason for them to change tack now.
4. Sailing an act of tacking.
a boat's course relative to the direction of the wind.
5. Sailing a rope for securing the corner of certain sails.
the corner to which such a rope is fastened.
6. the quality of being sticky.
¦ verb
1. fasten or fix with tacks or with temporary long stitches.
2. (tack something on) add something to something already existing.
3. Sailing change course by turning a boat's head into and through the wind.
make a series of such changes of course while sailing.
Derivatives
tacker noun
Origin
ME: prob. related to OFr. tache 'clasp, large nail'.
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tack2
¦ noun equipment used in horse riding, including the saddle and bridle.
Origin
C18 (in the sense 'apparatus, equipment'): contr. of tackle.
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tack3
¦ noun informal cheap, shoddy, or tasteless material.
Origin
1980s: back-form. from tacky2.
Grand tack hypothesis
![[[Jupiter]] might have shaped the [[Solar System]] on its grand tack](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jupiter and its shrunken Great Red Spot.jpg?width=200 "[[Jupiter]] might have shaped the [[Solar System]] on its grand tack")
IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, JUPITER MOVED INWARD THEN REVERSED COURSE ("TACKED") TO ITS CURRENT ORBIT.
Grand Track Hypothesis; Grand Tack scenario; Grand Tack Scenario; Grand Tack; Grand Tack Hypothesis
In planetary astronomy, the grand tack hypothesis proposes that Jupiter formed at 3.5 AU, then migrated inward to 1.
Wikipedia
Louise Lake-Tack
Dame Louise Agnetha Lake-Tack (born 26 July 1944) is a former Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda. She was the first woman to hold the office.
