Cacked vs Tacked - What's the difference?
cacked | tacked |
(cack)
A squawk.
* 1916 , Frank Michler Chapman, Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America ,
A discordant note.
(of a bird) To squawk.
* 1990 , P. H. Liotta, Learning to Fly ,
* 2000 , Minnesota Ornithologists? Union, The Loon , Volumes 72-74,
* 2007 , Turk Allcott, Time Leak ,
(brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
To defecate.
* 2005 , M. J. Simpson, Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams ,
(US, slang) To kill.
(slang) penis.
(tack)
A small nail with a flat head.
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
A thumbtack.
(sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
(nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
(nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind. See also reach, gybe.
A direction or course of action, especially a new one.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 637:
(nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
(nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
(nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals. Saddles, stirrups, bridles, halters, reins, bits, harnesses, martingales, and breastplates are all forms of horse tack .
(manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
Hardtack.
* 1913 , D. H. Lawrence, "Sons and Lovers":
That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
* Bishop Burnet
(legal, Scotland) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
(obsolete) Confidence; reliance.
To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
To sew/stich with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
(nautical) 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.
To add something as an extra item.
Often paired with "up", to place the tack on a horse.
As verbs the difference between cacked and tacked
is that cacked is past tense of cack while tacked is past tense of tack.cacked
English
Verb
(head)cack
English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeia.Noun
(en noun)page 493,
- for on occasions he gives utterance to an entirely uncharacteristic series of cacking'' notes, and even mounts high in the tree to sing a hesitating medley of the same unmusical ''cacks , broken whistled calls, and attempted trills.
Verb
(en verb)page 32,
- Still fluffy with down, she often attacks the other birds, cacking and flashing her wings, or threatens me as I watch through the tiny peephole of the near box.
page 37,
- While the Gyrfalcon cacked loudly on each stoop, the owl did not scream.
page 63,
- Peckle snitted them off and cacked' at them. Then he flew up by the rope-tie spot and puffed out his chest and then the wrens made another dash for the scraps and he dove down and ' cacked them away.
- The bugler hopes not to cack during his performance.
- The conductor instructed the trumpet section not to cack the first note of the symphony.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare caca.Verb
(en verb)page 322,
- ‘I asked him once if he got nervous before doing it,’ says Astin, ‘and he said he was absolutely cacking himself before going on stage, but as soon as he got there it was fantastic.’
- “He tried to shoot me, so I cacked him.”
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* cack-handed, cack-house (archaic)Etymology 3
See also
* cack upEtymology 4
From cock.Noun
(-)tacked
English
Verb
(head)tack
English
Etymology 1
From , probably from a (etyl) source.Noun
(en noun)Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- A tough test for even the strongest climber, it was new to the Tour de France this year, but its debut will be remembered for the wrong reasons after one of those spectators scattered carpet tacks on the road and induced around 30 punctures among the group of riders including Bradley Wiggins, the Tour's overall leader, and his chief rivals.
- I thought that my refusing Barnard would alienate Botha, and decided that such a tack was too risky.
- The laminate adhesive has very aggressive tack and is hard to move once in place.
- "But if a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack , and a donkey would die of it!"
- Some tacks had been made to money bills in King Charles's time.
- (Macaulay)
- (Burrill)
- (Halliwell)
Synonyms
* (nautical maneuver) coming aboutHyponyms
* (nail-like object for affixing thin things) thumbtackDerived terms
* Blu-Tack * hardtack * thumbtackVerb
(en verb)- to tack (something) onto (something)
