sack
v. dismiss from employment, fire; plunder, pillage; put in a sack, pack into a bag n. large burlap or canvas bag; backpack or other bag; dismissal from employment; instance of plundering, pillage; style of loose-fitting dress; type of white wine; amount of material that fills one sack | ||||
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Sack Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Sack
(v. t.)
To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
(v. t.)
To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
(v. t.)
To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
(n.)
The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
(n.)
See 2d Sac, 2.
(n.)
Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack.
(n.)
Bed.
(n.)
A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
(n.)
A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
(n.)
A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.
(n.)
A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.
(v. t.)
To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
(v. t.)
To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
(v. t.)
To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
(n.)
The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
(n.)
See 2d Sac, 2.
(n.)
Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack.
(n.)
Bed.
(n.)
A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
(n.)
A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
(n.)
A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.
(n.)
A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.
| WordNet 2.0 |
sack
Noun
1. a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
(synonym) poke, paper bag, carrier bag
(hypernym) bag
(hyponym) doggie bag, doggy bag
2. an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"
(synonym) pouch, sac, pocket
(hypernym) cavity, enclosed space
3. the quantity contained in a sack
(synonym) sackful
(hypernym) containerful
4. any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
(hypernym) white wine
5. a woman's full loose hiplength jacket
(synonym) sacque
(hypernym) jacket
6. a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swing easily
(synonym) hammock
(hypernym) bed
7. a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
(synonym) chemise, shift
(hypernym) dress, frock
8. the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter; "the sack of Rome"
(hypernym) plundering, pillage, pillaging
(derivation) plunder
9. the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
(synonym) dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sacking
(hypernym) termination, ending, conclusion
(hyponym) superannuation
(derivation) fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, force out, give the sack, terminate
Verb
1. plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome"
(synonym) plunder
(hypernym) take
(entail) destroy, ruin
2. terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
(synonym) fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, force out, give the sack, terminate
(hypernym) remove
(hyponym) retire
(derivation) dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sacking
3. make as a net profit; "The company cleared $1 million"
(synonym) net, sack up, clear
(hypernym) profit, gain, benefit
(verb-group) gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in
4. put in a sack; "The grocer sacked the onions"
(hypernym) encase, incase, case
(see-also) net, sack up, clear
(derivation) sackful
Noun
1. a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
(synonym) poke, paper bag, carrier bag
(hypernym) bag
(hyponym) doggie bag, doggy bag
2. an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"
(synonym) pouch, sac, pocket
(hypernym) cavity, enclosed space
3. the quantity contained in a sack
(synonym) sackful
(hypernym) containerful
4. any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
(hypernym) white wine
5. a woman's full loose hiplength jacket
(synonym) sacque
(hypernym) jacket
6. a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swing easily
(synonym) hammock
(hypernym) bed
7. a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
(synonym) chemise, shift
(hypernym) dress, frock
8. the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter; "the sack of Rome"
(hypernym) plundering, pillage, pillaging
(derivation) plunder
9. the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
(synonym) dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sacking
(hypernym) termination, ending, conclusion
(hyponym) superannuation
(derivation) fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, force out, give the sack, terminate
Verb
1. plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome"
(synonym) plunder
(hypernym) take
(entail) destroy, ruin
2. terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
(synonym) fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, force out, give the sack, terminate
(hypernym) remove
(hyponym) retire
(derivation) dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sacking
3. make as a net profit; "The company cleared $1 million"
(synonym) net, sack up, clear
(hypernym) profit, gain, benefit
(verb-group) gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in
4. put in a sack; "The grocer sacked the onions"
(hypernym) encase, incase, case
(see-also) net, sack up, clear
(derivation) sackful
| The Phrase Finder |
Get the sack
Meaning
To be dismissed from a job.
Origin
From the days when tradesmen owned their tools and, when dismissed from their job, took them with them in a bag or sack.
Meaning
To be dismissed from a job.
Origin
From the days when tradesmen owned their tools and, when dismissed from their job, took them with them in a bag or sack.
| Australian Slang |
Sack
1. bed; 2. dismissal or discharge, as from employment; 3. dismiss or discharge, as from employment
1. bed; 2. dismissal or discharge, as from employment; 3. dismiss or discharge, as from employment
Be sacked
be fired from work
Fartsack
sleeping bag
Hacky sack
1. small, soft, spherical bag of pellets used in the game hacky sack; 2. game in which players attempt to keep a hacky sack airborne as long as possible by kicking or striking with only the feet and knees, and sometimes the head
Hit the sack
go to bed to sleep
Out of the sack
(get up) from bed
Sack of shit
(derogatory) lazy, fat person
Sack up zeds
sleep; snooze
Sacked
fired from work
| Anagram |
sack
cask
cask
| GLOSSARY OF ESOTERIC WORDS |
Sack
1. Bag, pouch.
2. Spoliation, destruction, desolation, devastation, havoc, waste, ravage, sackage, despoilment.
3. Booty, spoil, plunder.
4. Sherry, sherry wine
1. Bag, pouch.
2. Spoliation, destruction, desolation, devastation, havoc, waste, ravage, sackage, despoilment.
3. Booty, spoil, plunder.
4. Sherry, sherry wine
| Vox Slang |
Sack
A bag of Marijuana.
A bag of Marijuana.
| hEnglish - advanced version |
sack
sack
\sack\ (s&scr;k), n. [oe. seck, f. sec dry (cf. sp. seco, it. secco), from l. siccus dry, harsh; perhaps akin to gr. 'ischno`s, skr. sikata sand, ir. sesc dry, w. hysp. cf. desiccate.] a name formerly given to various dry spanish wines. "sherris sack."
sack
posset, a posset made of sack, and some other ingredients.
sack
\sack\, v. t.
1. to put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn. bolsters sacked in cloth, blue and crimson. wallace.
2. to bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders. [colloq.]
sack
\sack\, n. [f. sac plunder, pillage, originally, a pack, packet, booty packed up, fr. l. saccus. see sack a bag.] the pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage. the town was stormed, and delivered up to sack, -- by which phrase is to be understood the perpetration of all those outrages which the ruthless code of war allowed, in that age, on the persons and property of the defenseless inhabitants, without regard to sex or age.
sack
\sack\, n. [oe. sak, sek, as. sacc, s?cc, l. saccus, gr. sa`kkos from heb. sak; cf. f. sac, from the latin. cf. sac, satchel, sack to plunder.] 1. a bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.
2. a measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. the american sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.
3. [perhaps a different word.] originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack. [written also sacque.]
4. a sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
5. (biol.) see 2d sac, 2.
sack
bearer (zo?l.). see basket worm, under basket.
sack
tree (bot.), an east indian tree (antiaris saccidora) which is cut into lengths, and made into sacks by turning the bark inside out, and leaving a slice of the wood for a bottom.
similar words(10)
sack tree
yolk sack
to give the sack to
sack posset
sack out
hit the sack
to give the sack
sack up
sack bearer
get the sack
sack
\sack\ (s&scr;k), n. [oe. seck, f. sec dry (cf. sp. seco, it. secco), from l. siccus dry, harsh; perhaps akin to gr. 'ischno`s, skr. sikata sand, ir. sesc dry, w. hysp. cf. desiccate.] a name formerly given to various dry spanish wines. "sherris sack."
sack
posset, a posset made of sack, and some other ingredients.
sack
\sack\, v. t.
1. to put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn. bolsters sacked in cloth, blue and crimson. wallace.
2. to bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders. [colloq.]
sack
\sack\, n. [f. sac plunder, pillage, originally, a pack, packet, booty packed up, fr. l. saccus. see sack a bag.] the pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage. the town was stormed, and delivered up to sack, -- by which phrase is to be understood the perpetration of all those outrages which the ruthless code of war allowed, in that age, on the persons and property of the defenseless inhabitants, without regard to sex or age.
sack
\sack\, n. [oe. sak, sek, as. sacc, s?cc, l. saccus, gr. sa`kkos from heb. sak; cf. f. sac, from the latin. cf. sac, satchel, sack to plunder.] 1. a bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.
2. a measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. the american sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.
3. [perhaps a different word.] originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack. [written also sacque.]
4. a sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
5. (biol.) see 2d sac, 2.
sack
bearer (zo?l.). see basket worm, under basket.
sack
tree (bot.), an east indian tree (antiaris saccidora) which is cut into lengths, and made into sacks by turning the bark inside out, and leaving a slice of the wood for a bottom.
similar words(10)
sack tree
yolk sack
to give the sack to
sack posset
sack out
hit the sack
to give the sack
sack up
sack bearer
get the sack
| Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1 |
sack
bolg, mála, sac
bolg, mála, sac
| JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary |
Sach
Sach = n. a sack
Sach = n. a sack
Sachell
Sachell = n. a small sack, a bag
Sack Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Glossary of petroleum Industry |
Sack
(sx) a container for cement, bentonite, ilmenite, barite, caustic, and so forth. Sacks (bags) contain the following amounts
(sx) a container for cement, bentonite, ilmenite, barite, caustic, and so forth. Sacks (bags) contain the following amounts
Sack Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
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SACK
Selective ACKnowledge
Selective ACKnowledge
Sack Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Sack
sa'haf (anc.)
sa'haf (anc.)
Sack Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Moxie International's Glossary of Concrete Terms |
Sack
A quantity of cement: 94 Ibs. in the United States, 87.5 Ibs. in Canada, for portland or air entraining portland cement, or as indicated on the sack for other kinds of cement.
A quantity of cement: 94 Ibs. in the United States, 87.5 Ibs. in Canada, for portland or air entraining portland cement, or as indicated on the sack for other kinds of cement.
Sack Definition from Sports Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Glossary of Football Terms |
Sack
A tackle of the quarterback behind his line of scrimmage.
A tackle of the quarterback behind his line of scrimmage.
Sack Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia |
Sack
A sack is a bag, especially a large one for carrying or storing goods. A sack is also slang for a person with a limited intellect.
It can also refer to:
- Sack (comics), Marvel Comics villain in their Gene Nation
- Sack (band), an Irish band
- A particularly sweet form of mead
- Sherry, called sack in the past
- Looting, as a city after invasion
- Termination of employment, slang in many Commonwealth countries
- Scrotum (slang)
- Bed (furniture) or sleeping bag, as in “hitting the sack” (slang for going to bed)
- Selective acknowledgement (SACK), in computer networking
- A slang term for a groin attack
- Quarterback sack, tackling the quarterback in American and Canadian football
- An obsolete Middle Age measurement of weight in England, equivalent to 26 stone (364 lb)
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Retransmission (data networks)
Retransmission refers to one of the basic mechanisms used by protocols operating over a packet switched computer network to provide reliable communication (such as that provided by a reliable byte stream, for example TCP).
Such networks are usually 'unreliable', meaning they offer no guarantees that they will not delay, damage, or lose packets, or deliver them out of order.
Protocols which provide reliable communication over such networks use a combination of acknowledgments (i.e. an explicit receipt from the destination of the data), retransmission of missing and/or damaged packets (usually initiated by a time-out), and checksums to provide that reliability.
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