OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 4795

tack

/tæk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
clavar • prender • sujetar con tachuelas
To nail (something) with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
hilvanar
To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
voltejear
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.
agregar • añadir
To add something as an extra item.
In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than "standard" English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would b…
to tack (something) onto (something)