Tack

Definition

tack /tæk/ n ၁။ [U, sing] လမ္းေၾကာင္း။ နည္းလမ္း။ be on the right/wrong tack ❍ It would be unwise to change tack now. ❍ I was unable to persuade her with offers of money, so I tried a different tack. ၂။ [C] ( nautical ) ေလွ၊ သေဘၤာစသည္ ေထာင့္တန္းဆန္ျခင္း။ on the port/starboard tack (ie with the wind on the left/right side). ၃။ [C] သံမိႈ။ a box of tacks ❍ a carpet tack. See also THUMB-TACK ၄။ [C] ယာယီခ်ဳပ္႐ိုး။ အလွမ္းက်ဲက်ဲ သီခ်ဳပ္။ v ၁။ သံမိႈစြဲသည္။ tack down the carpet ❍ tack a poster to the wall. ၂။ ခ်ဳပ္သည္။ သီသည္။ tack a ribbon onto a hat ❍ tack (up) the hem of a dress ❍ tacking stitches/threads. ၃။ ( nautical ) (ရြက္ေလွ၊ သေဘၤာ) ဘယ္ညာတစ္လွည့္စီ ခ်ဳိး၍ ေလကို ေထာင့္တန္း ဆန္သည္၊ ရြက္တိုက္သည္။ tack to port/starboard ❍ The yacht tacked towards the mainland. ❍ tacking back and forth. ❏ tack sth on(to sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အပိုေဆာင္းသည္။ ဆက္တြဲသည္။ a cover charge tacked onto the bill ❍ The last paragraph seems to have been tacked on as an afterthought (eg It bears little relation to what hasgonebefore).

Examples

1. A carpet tack
2. Let’s try a different tack.
3. [change tack] : The government may change tack if it loses support.
4. A long starboard tack