Words that rhyme with dulac

adv 1: having the wind against the forward side of the sails; "the ship came up into the wind with all yards aback" 2: by surprise; "taken aback by the caustic remarks"

n 1: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons); "the attack began at dawn" [syn: attack, onslaught, onset, onrush] 2: an offensive move in a sport or game; "they won the game with a 10-hit attack in the 9th inning" 3: intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak, flack, blast] 4: ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation; "his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons"; "an attack on inflation"; "his plan of attack was misguided" [syn: approach, attack, plan of attack] 5: the act of attacking; "attacks on women increased last year"; "they made an attempt on his life" [syn: attack, attempt] 6: a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase [syn: attack, tone-beginning] 7: a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition; "an attack of diarrhea" 8: the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent); "the film was sensitive to attack by acids"; "open to attack by the elements" 9: strong criticism; "he published an unexpected attack on my work" v 1: launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week" [syn: attack, assail] [ant: defend] 2: attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" [syn: attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault] 3: take the initiative and go on the offensive; "The Serbs attacked the village at night"; "The visiting team started to attack" [syn: attack, aggress] 4: attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" [syn: assail, assault, set on, attack] 5: set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task; "I attacked the problem as soon as I got out of bed" 6: begin to injure; "The cancer cells are attacking his liver"; "Rust is attacking the metal"

adv 1: in or to or toward a former location; "she went back to her parents' house" 2: at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car" [syn: back, backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards] [ant: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards] 3: in or to or toward an original condition; "he went back to sleep" 4: in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward" [syn: back, backward] [ant: ahead, forward] 5: in reply; "he wrote back three days later" 6: in repayment or retaliation; "we paid back everything we had borrowed"; "he hit me and I hit him back"; "I was kept in after school for talking back to the teacher" adj 1: related to or located at the back; "the back yard"; "the back entrance" [ant: front(a)] 2: located at or near the back of an animal; "back (or hind) legs"; "the hinder part of a carcass" [syn: back(a), hind(a), hinder(a)] 3: of an earlier date; "back issues of the magazine" n 1: the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned" [syn: back, dorsum] 2: the side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph" [syn: rear, back] [ant: front] 3: the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer; "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden in the rear of the store" [syn: back, rear] [ant: front] 4: (football) a person who plays in the backfield 5: the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back" [syn: spinal column, vertebral column, spine, backbone, back, rachis] 6: the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book; "the book had a leather binding" [syn: binding, book binding, cover, back] 7: the part of a garment that covers the back of your body; "they pinned a `kick me' sign on his back" 8: a support that you can lean against while sitting; "the back of the dental chair was adjustable" [syn: back, backrest] 9: (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage v 1: be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960" [syn: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support] 2: travel backward; "back into the driveway"; "The car backed up and hit the tree" 3: give support or one's approval to; "I'll second that motion"; "I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project" [syn: second, back, endorse, indorse] 4: cause to travel backward; "back the car into the parking spot" [ant: advance, bring forward] 5: support financial backing for; "back this enterprise" 6: be in back of; "My garage backs their yard" [ant: face, front, look] 7: place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse" [syn: bet on, back, gage, stake, game, punt] 8: shift to a counterclockwise direction; "the wind backed" [ant: veer] 9: establish as valid or genuine; "Can you back up your claims?" [syn: back, back up] 10: strengthen by providing with a back or backing

adj 1: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" [ant: white] 2: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. [ant: white] 3: marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words" 4: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things" [syn: black, bleak, dim] 5: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: black, dark, sinister] 6: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful] 7: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" [syn: black, blackened] 8: extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch- black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" [syn: black, pitch-black, pitch-dark] 9: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" [syn: black, grim, mordant] 10: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda" 11: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" [syn: bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled] 12: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful] 13: (of coffee) without cream or sugar 14: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" [syn: black, smutty] n 1: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn: black, blackness, inkiness] [ant: white, whiteness] 2: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black] 3: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) [syn: Black, Joseph Black] 4: popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) [syn: Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple] 5: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) [syn: Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid] 6: (board games) the darker pieces [ant: white] 7: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black" v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" [syn: blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black] [ant: white, whiten]

n 1: a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated [syn: clack, clap] 2: a simple valve with a hinge on one side; allows fluid to flow in only one direction [syn: clack valve, clack, clapper valve] v 1: make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: clatter, clack, brattle] 2: make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens [syn: cluck, click, clack] 3: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]

n 1: a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance

adj 1: of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops" [syn: ace, A-one, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, topnotch, top-notch, tops(p)] n 1: a long narrow opening [syn: crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure] 2: a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack" [syn: gap, crack] 3: a long narrow depression in a surface [syn: crevice, cranny, crack, fissure, chap] 4: a sudden sharp noise; "the crack of a whip"; "he heard the cracking of the ice"; "he can hear the snap of a twig" [syn: crack, cracking, snap] 5: a chance to do something; "he wanted a shot at the champion" [syn: shot, crack] 6: witty remark [syn: wisecrack, crack, sally, quip] 7: a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts; "there was a crack in the mirror" 8: a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive [syn: crack, crack cocaine, tornado] 9: a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl" [syn: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer] 10: the act of cracking something [syn: fracture, crack, cracking] v 1: become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated" [syn: crack, check, break] 2: make a very sharp explosive sound; "His gun cracked" 3: make a sharp sound; "his fingers snapped" [syn: snap, crack] 4: hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise; "The teacher cracked him across the face with a ruler" 5: pass through (a barrier); "Registrations cracked through the 30,000 mark in the county" [syn: break through, crack] 6: break partially but keep its integrity; "The glass cracked" 7: break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension; "The pipe snapped" [syn: snap, crack] 8: gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions; "she cracked my password"; "crack a safe" 9: suffer a nervous breakdown [syn: crack up, crack, crock up, break up, collapse] 10: tell spontaneously; "crack a joke" 11: cause to become cracked; "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair" 12: reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking 13: break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked"

n 1: a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer [syn: flak catcher, flak, flack catcher, flack] 2: intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak, flack, blast] 3: artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes [syn: antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom- pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun]

n 1: a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer [syn: flak catcher, flak, flack catcher, flack] 2: intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak, flack, blast] 3: artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes [syn: antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom- pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun]

n 1: one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: hack, drudge, hacker] 2: a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends [syn: machine politician, ward-heeler, political hack, hack] 3: a mediocre and disdained writer [syn: hack, hack writer, literary hack] 4: a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil 5: a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money [syn: cab, hack, taxi, taxicab] 6: an old or over-worked horse [syn: hack, jade, nag, plug] 7: a horse kept for hire 8: a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc. v 1: cut with a hacking tool [syn: chop, hack] 2: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office" [syn: hack, cut] 3: cut away; "he hacked his way through the forest" 4: kick on the arms 5: kick on the shins 6: fix a computer program piecemeal until it works; "I'm not very good at hacking but I'll give it my best" [syn: hack, hack on] 7: significantly cut up a manuscript [syn: hack, cut up] 8: cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day" [syn: hack, whoop]

n 1: a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack" [syn: jack, doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit, diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, squat, shit] 2: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog] 3: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor [syn: laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack] 4: immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted [syn: jackfruit, jak, jack] 5: a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling 6: an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug 7: game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks [syn: jack, jackstones] 8: small flag indicating a ship's nationality 9: one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince [syn: jack, knave] 10: tool for exerting pressure or lifting 11: any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas 12: male donkey [syn: jack, jackass] v 1: lift with a special device; "jack up the car so you can change the tire" [syn: jack, jack up] 2: hunt with a jacklight [syn: jacklight, jack]

n 1: a special way of doing something; "he had a bent for it"; "he had a special knack for getting into trouble"; "he couldn't get the hang of it" [syn: bent, knack, hang]

n 1: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" [syn: lack, deficiency, want] v 1: be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!" [syn: miss, lack] [ant: feature, have]

n 1: a large indefinite number; "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions" [syn: battalion, large number, multitude, plurality, pack] 2: a complete collection of similar things 3: a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film) 4: an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: gang, pack, ring, mob] 5: an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose [syn: clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp] 6: a group of hunting animals 7: a cream that cleanses and tones the skin [syn: pack, face pack] 8: a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect 9: a bundle (especially one carried on the back) v 1: arrange in a container; "pack the books into the boxes" [ant: take out, unpack] 2: fill to capacity; "This singer always packs the concert halls"; "The murder trial packed the court house" 3: compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: pack, bundle, wad, compact] 4: carry, as on one's back; "Pack your tents to the top of the mountain" 5: set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome; "pack a jury" 6: have with oneself; have on one's person; "She always takes an umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains" [syn: carry, pack, take] 7: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" [syn: throng, mob, pack, pile, jam] 8: hike with a backpack; "Every summer they are backpacking in the Rockies" [syn: backpack, pack] 9: press down tightly; "tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso" [syn: tamp down, tamp, pack] 10: seal with packing; "pack the faucet" 11: have the property of being packable or of compacting easily; "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well" [syn: compact, pack] 12: load with a pack [syn: pack, load down] 13: treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood; "The nurse packed gauze in the wound"; "You had better pack your swollen ankle with ice"

n 1: (pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body 2: a memorial made of brass [syn: brass, memorial tablet, plaque]

adj 1: medically unqualified; "a quack doctor" n 1: an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice 2: the harsh sound of a duck v 1: utter quacking noises; "The ducks quacked" 2: act as a medical quack or a charlatan

n 1: framework for holding objects 2: rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton 3: the destruction or collapse of something; "wrack and ruin" [syn: wrack, rack] 4: an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims [syn: rack, wheel] 5: a support for displaying various articles; "the newspapers were arranged on a rack" [syn: rack, stand] 6: a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body 7: a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately [syn: rack, single-foot] v 1: go at a rack; "the horses single-footed" [syn: single- foot, rack] 2: stretch to the limits; "rack one's brains" 3: put on a rack and pinion; "rack a camera" 4: obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him" [syn: extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wring] 5: run before a gale [syn: scud, rack] 6: fly in high wind 7: draw off from the lees; "rack wine" 8: torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torment, torture, excruciate, rack] 9: work on a rack; "rack leather" 10: seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block 11: torture on the rack

n 1: an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air" [syn: pouch, sac, sack, pocket] 2: a case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule [syn: theca, sac] 3: a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay [syn: Sauk, Sac] 4: a structure resembling a bag in an animal

n 1: a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases [syn: sack, poke, paper bag, carrier bag] 2: an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air" [syn: pouch, sac, sack, pocket] 3: the quantity contained in a sack [syn: sack, sackful] 4: any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry) 5: a woman's full loose hiplength jacket [syn: sack, sacque] 6: a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily [syn: hammock, sack] 7: a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist [syn: chemise, sack, shift] 8: the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter; "the sack of Rome" 9: the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking] v 1: plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome" [syn: sack, plunder] 2: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant: employ, engage, hire] 3: make as a net profit; "The company cleared $1 million" [syn: net, sack, sack up, clear] 4: put in a sack; "The grocer sacked the onions"

n 1: small crude shelter used as a dwelling [syn: hovel, hut, hutch, shack, shanty] v 1: make one's home in a particular place or community; "may parents reside in Florida" [syn: reside, shack, domicile, domiciliate] 2: move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly; "John trailed behind his class mates"; "The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart" [syn: trail, shack]

adj 1: not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and grey"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope" [syn: loose, slack] 2: flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide; "slack water" 3: lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline" [syn: lax, slack] n 1: dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve 2: a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality; "the team went into a slump"; "a gradual slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in quality" [syn: slump, slack, drop-off, falloff, falling off] 3: a stretch of water without current or movement; "suddenly they were in a slack and the water was motionless" [syn: slack, slack water] 4: a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot [syn: mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slack] 5: the quality of being loose (not taut); "he hadn't counted on the slackness of the rope" [syn: slack, slackness] 6: a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely; "he took up the slack" v 1: avoid responsibilities and work, be idle 2: be inattentive to, or neglect; "He slacks his attention" 3: release tension on; "slack the rope" 4: make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got tired"; "Don't relax your efforts now" [syn: slack, slacken, slack up, relax] 5: become slow or slower; "Production slowed" [syn: slow, slow down, slow up, slack, slacken] 6: make less active or intense [syn: slake, abate, slack] 7: become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours" [syn: abate, let up, slack off, slack, die away] 8: cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water; "slack lime" [syn: slack, slake]

adv 1: directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her" [syn: bang, slap, slapdash, smack, bolt] n 1: a blow from a flat object (as an open hand) [syn: slap, smack] 2: the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth [syn: relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, nip, tang] 3: a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast 4: street names for heroin [syn: big H, hell dust, nose drops, smack, thunder, skag, scag] 5: an enthusiastic kiss [syn: smack, smooch] 6: the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand [syn: smack, smacking, slap] v 1: deliver a hard blow to; "The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved" [syn: smack, thwack] 2: have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism"; "this passage smells of plagiarism" [syn: smack, reek, smell] 3: have a distinctive or characteristic taste; "This tastes of nutmeg" [syn: smack, taste] 4: kiss lightly [syn: smack, peck] 5: press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating

n 1: a light informal meal [syn: bite, collation, snack] v 1: eat a snack; eat lightly; "She never loses weight because she snacks between meals" [syn: nosh, snack]

n 1: an orderly pile 2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad] 3: a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO) [syn: push-down list, push-down stack, stack] 4: a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated [syn: smokestack, stack] 5: a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) [syn: push-down storage, push-down store, stack] v 1: load or cover with stacks; "stack a truck with boxes" 2: arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" [syn: stack, pile, heap] 3: arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances; "stack the deck of cards"

n 1: the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails 2: a short nail with a sharp point and a large head 3: gear for a horse [syn: stable gear, saddlery, tack] 4: (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind [syn: sheet, tack, mainsheet, weather sheet, shroud] 5: (nautical) the act of changing tack [syn: tack, tacking] 6: sailing a zigzag course v 1: fasten with tacks; "tack the notice on the board" 2: turn into the wind; "The sailors decided to tack the boat"; "The boat tacked" [syn: tack, wear round] 3: create by putting components or members together; "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee" [syn: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together] [ant: break apart, break up, disassemble, dismantle, take apart] 4: sew together loosely, with large stitches; "baste a hem" [syn: baste, tack] 5: fix to; attach; "append a charm to the necklace" [syn: append, tag on, tack on, tack, hang on] 6: reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) [syn: interchange, tack, switch, alternate, flip, flip- flop]

n 1: a hard blow with a flat object v 1: deliver a hard blow to; "The teacher smacked the student who had misbehaved" [syn: smack, thwack]

n 1: a line or route along which something travels or moves; "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river" [syn: path, track, course] 2: evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator" [syn: lead, track, trail] 3: a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels 4: a course over which races are run [syn: racetrack, racecourse, raceway, track] 5: a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc; "he played the first cut on the cd"; "the title track of the album" [syn: cut, track] 6: an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground [syn: track, caterpillar track, caterpillar tread] 7: (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data [syn: track, data track] 8: a groove on a phonograph recording 9: a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll [syn: track, rail, rails, runway] 10: any road or path affording passage especially a rough one [syn: track, cart track, cartroad] 11: the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track [syn: track, running] v 1: carry on the feet and deposit; "track mud into the house" 2: observe or plot the moving path of something; "track a missile" 3: go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" [syn: chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track] 4: travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day" [syn: traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across] 5: make tracks upon

v 1: remove from its packing; "unpack the presents" [syn: unpack, take out] [ant: pack]

n 1: the sound made by a sharp swift blow 2: the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack" [syn: knock, belt, rap, whack, whang] v 1: hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: whack, wham, whop, wallop]

n 1: dried seaweed especially that cast ashore 2: the destruction or collapse of something; "wrack and ruin" [syn: wrack, rack] 3: growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp [syn: sea wrack, wrack] v 1: smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car" [syn: bust up, wreck, wrack]

n 1: noisy talk [syn: yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle] 2: large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated [syn: yak, Bos grunniens] v 1: talk profusely; "she was yakking away about her grandchildren" [syn: yak, gab]

n 1: a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric [syn: macintosh, mackintosh, mac, mack]

n 1: noisy talk [syn: yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle] v 1: talk incessantly and tiresomely [syn: yack, jaw, yack away, rattle on, yap away]

n 1: French painter who led the cubist movement (1882-1963) [syn: Braque, Georges Braque]

n 1: East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye [syn: dhak, dak, palas, Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma]

n 1: resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax

n 1: a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric [syn: macintosh, mackintosh, mac, mack]

n 1: a terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the 1980s to provide money and recruit fighters around the world; enlisted and transported thousands of men to Afghanistan to fight the Russians; a split in the group led bin Laden and the extremist faction of MAK to form al-Qaeda [syn: Maktab al-Khidmat, MAK]

n 1: committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates [syn: political action committee, PAC]