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tack

noun

1 tacks held the carpet to the floor:

pin, nail, staple, spike, rivet, stud;

British drawing pin, tin tack;

North American thumb tack.

2 Sailingthe brig bowled past on the opposite tack:

heading, bearing, direction, course, track, path, line.

3 he changed tack and began to play in a different style:

approach, way, method, process;

policy, procedure, technique, tactic, plan, strategy, stratagem, programme, line of attack;

course of action, line of action, path, line, angle, direction, course.

verb

1 a photo was tacked to the wall:

pin, nail, staple, fix, fasten, attach, secure, affix, put up, put down.

2 when the dress was roughly tacked together she tried it on:

stitch, baste, sew, bind, hem.

3 Sailingthe yachts tacked back and forth across the lake:

change course, change direction, change heading;

swerve, zigzag;

veer off/away;

Nautical go about, come about, beat, sail into the wind.

4 he answered, but she had tacked and was already following a different line of questioning:

alter one's approach, change course, change direction, do a U-turn, change one's mind, change one's attitude, have a change of heart;

British do an about-turn.

5 there are some poems tacked on at the end of the book:

attach, add, append, join, tag, annex.

tack (1) Oxford Dictionary of English