Vac vs Sac - What's the difference?
vac | sac |
(informal) A vacation.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 324:
(informal) A vacuum cleaner.
To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
* 2010 , Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star (page 332)
(senseid)(transitive, informal, games) To sacrifice.
(senseid)(transitive, informal, games) A sacrifice.
(UK, legal, obsolete) The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.
As nouns the difference between vac and sac
is that vac is a vacation while sac is a bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.As verbs the difference between vac and sac
is that vac is to vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner while sac is (sacrifice v) To sacrifice.As an acronym SAC is
acronym of :w:senior aircraftman|senior aircraftman|lang=en.As a proper noun Sac is
an alternative form of Sauk|lang=en.vac
English
Noun
(en noun)- It was to be their last term at Oxford and Hilary had incited them both to journey with him to Provence for the long vac .
Derived terms
* (vacuum cleaner) minivacVerb
(vack)- I went on to how Harold used to work in security on the building; he used to see Andy in the underground car-park vacking the sick out of the Merc.
Anagrams
* (l) ----sac
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sac.Derived terms
* vocal sacEtymology 2
Abbreviation of sacrifice.Verb
- Kasparov sacked his queen early on in the game to gain a positional advantage against Kramnik.
- I kept saccing monsters at the altar until I was rewarded with a new weapon.
Noun
(en noun)- Kasparov's queen sac early in the game gained him a positional advantage against Kramnik.
Etymology 3
See sake, soc.Noun
- (Cowell)