Usually means: Change direction while sailing boat.
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We found 57 dictionaries that define the word tack:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. tack: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tack: Merriam-Webster
  3. tack, tack, tack, tack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tack, tack, tack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tack: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tack: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tack, tack: Wordnik
  8. tack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tack: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Tack, tack: Wiktionary
  11. tack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. tack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. tack: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. tack: Dictionary.com
  15. tack (1), tack (2), tack (3): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. tack: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. TACK, Tack (sail), Tack (sailing), Tack (sewing), Tack (square sail), Tack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Tack: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. tack: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. tack: Rhymezone
  21. tack: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. tack: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Tack: American-Britih Dictionary
  24. tack: FreeDictionary.org
  25. tack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Tack: The Word Detective
  27. tack: TheFreeDictionary.com
  28. tack: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tack: Cook's Thesaurus

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. tack: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Tack (sailing), tack: Legal dictionary
  5. tack: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tack (sailing), tack: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tack: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TACK: Acronym Finder
  2. tack: A Word A Day
  3. tack: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tack, tack, tack, tack, tack, tack, tack, tack: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tack: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Tack: Sports Definitions

Tech (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  4. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  5. Tack: Fiberglass Glossary
  6. Paper Making (No longer online)
  7. TACK: Industry Terms for Fiberglass
  8. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  9. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Tack: Latitude Mexico
  11. Tack: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See tacked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A small nail with a flat head.
noun:  A thumbtack.
noun:  (sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
noun:  (nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
noun:  (nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
noun:  (figurative) A direction or course of action, especially a new one; a method or approach to solving a problem.
noun:  (nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
noun:  (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
noun:  (nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
noun:  Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
noun:  (manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
noun:  Food generally; fare, especially of the bread kind.
noun:  That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
noun:  (obsolete) Confidence; reliance.
verb:  (transitive) To nail (something) with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
verb:  To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
verb:  To weld with initial small welds to temporarily fasten in preparation for full welding.
verb:  (nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
verb:  To add something as an extra item.
verb:  Synonym of tack up (“to prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with a tack”).
verb:  (slang, obsolete) To join in wedlock.
noun:  A stain; a tache.
noun:  (obsolete) A peculiar flavour or taint.
noun:  (colloquial) That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
noun:  (law, Scotland and Northern England) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
noun:  A surname.

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