tack 的 3 个定义
- a short, sharp-pointed nail, usually with a flat, broad head.
- Nautical. a rope for extending the lower forward corner of a course.the lower forward corner of a course or fore-and-aft sail.the heading of a sailing vessel, when sailing close-hauled, with reference to the wind direction.a course run obliquely against the wind.one of the series of straight runs that make up the zigzag course of a ship proceeding to windward.
- a course of action or conduct, especially one differing from some preceding or other course.
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- Nautical. to change the course of a sailing vessel by bringing the head into the wind and then causing it to fall off on the other side: He ordered us to tack at once. to change course in this way.to proceed to windward by a series of courses as close to the wind as the vessel will sail.
- to take or follow a zigzag course or route.
- to change one's course of action, conduct, ideas, etc.
- to equip a horse with tack: Please tack up quickly.
tack 近义词
course of movement
short pin for attaching
attach
更多tack例句
- A consistent tack for President Trump as he defends his handling of the novel coronavirus and race relations — two issues that are dragging down his reelection chances — is to dodge acknowledging how bad either of them are.
- But, under a new administration, the government has changed tack.
- It’s not ideal that Republicans are taking this tack, as the right to vote is so important.
- Now Johnson is on a mission to teach the next generation of teachers how to take a new tack.
- In the weeks after coronavirus clamped the country in a vise of social distancing regulations, many ad sellers tried new tacks to keep their clients engaged.
- 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.