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tack

noun as in short pin for attaching

verb as in attach

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Example Sentences

Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top.

Anytime we have to put up the sail or tack or do any maneuvering, it requires all hands on deck.

Around 3am, my spindly legs are beginning to ache from balancing on deck, as we heel with each tack.

This second tack, the one that has worked for Hughes, is probably the most viable for Lewinsky, he thinks.

At the moment, he seems to be taking a different tack altogether.

The stratagem worked, because the ships went about from one tack to the other without being seen by the Dutch.

Whereas Lessard had acted the martinet with MacRae, he took another tack and became the very essence of affability toward me.

The wind being unfavourable, we were obliged, during the night, to tack in the neighbourhood of Dover.

It was evidently useless to try to get anything more out of the child on that tack.

They stood out till they had one and all declared that they could clear it on the next tack; they were all ready to go about.

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On this page you'll find 104 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tack, such as: tangent, aim, alteration, approach, bearing, and bend.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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