tack – English noun declension

English noun forms of tack

Noun: tack
Singulartack
Pluraltacks

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [2012 July 15, Richard Williams, “Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot put Bradley Wiggins off track”, in The Guardian:]
  • So stoutly held to tack by those near North-wales men; [1612, Michael Drayton, chapter 11, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:]
  • Maud Gonne’s letter about taking them off O’Connell street at night: disgrace to our Irish capital. Griffith’s paper is on the same tack now: an army rotten with venereal disease: overseas or halfseasover empire. [1922 February, James Joyce, “[V]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:]
  • ‘I know it all right,’ Big Bil snarled, ‘but knowing and proving are two different tacks.’ [1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 124:]
  • I thought that my refusing Barnard would alienate Botha, and decided that such a tack was too risky. [1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 637:]
  • When even cautious German politicians are questioning Nato’s ‘war-mongering’ actions, it’s clear that a new tack is required [2016 June 19, Mary Dejevsky, “Isolating Russia isn’t working. The west needs a new approach”, in The Guardian:]
  • The laminate adhesive has very aggressive tack and is hard to move once in place.
  • Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […] [1959, E. A. Apps, Printing Ink Technology, page 415:]
  • Near-synonyms: biscuit, bread
  • But if a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it! [1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:]
  • Some tacks had been made to money bills in King Charles's time. [a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC:]
  • pay all taxes and subscribe tacks [1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:]
  • He should find[…]that there was tack in it, that it was solid silver, or silver that had strength in it. [1651-1666, Joseph Caryl, Exposition of Job with Practical Observations:]

Etymology

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”). See: Middle English Nouns 'tak', Dutch Nouns 'tak', German Nouns 'Zacke'.

Verbs referencing "tack"

Latvian Nouns dakša, German Nouns Zacke.