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Meaning of "tacking" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TACKING

tacking  [ˈtækɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TACKING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tacking is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TACKING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tacking

Tacking may refer to: ▪ Tacking or coming about, a sailing maneuver ▪ Tacking, a technical legal concept relating to competing priorities between interests arising over the same asset ▪ Tacking Into the Wind, an episode from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ▪ Tacking Point Lighthouse, a lighthouse near Port Macquarie, Australia...

Definition of tacking in the English dictionary

The definition of tacking in the dictionary is long loose temporary stitches used in dressmaking, etcto take out the tacking from sth.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TACKING


attacking
əˈtækɪŋ
backing
ˈbækɪŋ
backpacking
ˈbækpækɪŋ
barebacking
ˈbeəbækɪŋ
cracking
ˈkrækɪŋ
fast-tracking
ˈfɑːstˌtrækɪŋ
fracking
ˈfrækɪŋ
hacking
ˈhækɪŋ
hijacking
ˈhaɪdʒækɪŋ
meatpacking
ˈmiːtpækɪŋ
packing
ˈpækɪŋ
racking
ˈrækɪŋ
ransacking
ˈrænsækɪŋ
sacking
ˈsækɪŋ
smacking
ˈsmækɪŋ
stacking
ˈstækɪŋ
tictacking
ˈtɪkˌtækɪŋ
tracking
ˈtrækɪŋ
unpacking
ʌnˈpækɪŋ
whacking
ˈwækɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TACKING

tack welding
tackboard
tacker
tacket
tackety
tackey
tackier
tackies
tackiest
tackifier
tackify
tackily
tackiness
tacking stitch
tackle
tackler
tackless
tacksman
tacksmen
tacky

WORDS THAT END LIKE TACKING

banking
blocking
checking
clicking
docking
fucking
kicking
knocking
lacking
licking
locking
mocking
overclocking
picking
rocking
shocking
stocking
sucking
trafficking
trucking
wrecking

Synonyms and antonyms of tacking in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TACKING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tacking» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of tacking
affix · approach · attach · baste · bearing · bind · come about · course · direction · drawing pin · fasten · fix · go about · heading · hem · line · method · nail · path · pin · plan · procedure · rivet · sew · staple · stitch · stud · swerve · tactic · tenor · thumbtack · tintack · track · way · zigzag

Translation of «tacking» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TACKING

Find out the translation of tacking to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tacking from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tacking» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

套结
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

viradas
570 millions of speakers

English

tacking
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tacking
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تغير اتجاهها
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лавировать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

aderência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tacking
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pointage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tacking
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Heft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

仮縫い
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

시침
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tacking
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dính bám
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கர்தினால்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हेलिकॉप्टर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

teyel
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

virata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sklejaniu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лавірувати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tacking
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στερέωση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

koppel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

häftning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hefting
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tacking

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TACKING»

The term «tacking» is regularly used and occupies the 62.152 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TACKING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tacking» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tacking» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tacking

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TACKING»

Discover the use of tacking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tacking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Clothing Trade Journal
Class E Reworking button holes, overcasting buttonholes, making front buttonholes, making lapel button holes, sewing around top pocket, sewing around facing pocket, tacking sleeves, canvas lusting, tacking top pocket, basting lapel and ...
‎1920
2
Seamanship in the Age of Sail: An Account of the ...
In the ordinary way, the best method of going about will be by tacking; that is to say, by luffing up to the wind six points, and falling off a further six points onto the new tack. Ideally this will be accomplished by maintaining headway throughout ...
John H. Harland, 1984
3
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
TACKING DEVICE. Ephraim O. Engberg, Salt Lake City, Utah, assignor to John Beecher Patton, Kent, Ohio. Filed Sept. 10, 1908. Serial No. 452,366. (CI. 1—2.) 1. The combination with means for supporting a shade- roller, of a transverse bar  ...
‎1912
4
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
A lasting machine comprising tacking mechanism, a jackdevice for supporting a last carrying a shoe, a rotatable support for said jack-device, means for automatically moving said jack-device along the said rotatable support past the tacking ...
United States. Patent Office, 1895
5
The Old French Johannes Translation of the Pseudo-Turpin ...
atempré a l'ewe L2 - t. a iaue P8 , t. a l'iaue V - 22 a faire L2 P8, de faire V - devant lui lacking P8 - 23 et les ancienes g. tacking L2, les livres et les ys tores et les a. g. de s. A. P8 - 23 (de tacking) saint Al - 24 Ne nuns Al - devant lui l'eure d' une ...
Ronald Noel Walpole, 1976
6
Plastic Surgery - Aesthetic
Tacking sutures are taken bilaterally from the tunica albuginea proximal to the penoscrotal junction to the subdermal skin. suction drain is placed from the pubic symphysis, around the right side, and under the deep closure of the wound.
Richard J. Warren, Peter C. Neligan, 2012
7
Property: Examples & Explanations
attributes, including the time the first possessor occupied the property. This adding of time the first possessor used the property to the time the second possessor used the property is called tacking. The relationship necessary to allow tacking is ...
D. Barlow Burke, Joseph A. Snoe, 2008
8
Lead-Free Soldering in Electronics: Science, Technology, and ...
Tackiness of solder paste is one of the requirements for solder paste in surface mount technology and is expressed in tacking force and tacking time. Tacking force is defined as the peak force required to maintain contact between a component ...
Katsuaki Suganuma, 2003
9
Evaluation Findings of Bondade CU-31 Bonding Solution
Relatively little attention, however, has been given to improved tacking materials. The lack of acceptable tacking materials has caused many agencies to adopt procedures that eliminate, and even specifically prohibit, their use.I/> Instead ...
Highway Innovative Technology Evaluation Center/Civil Engineering Research Foundation
10
Basketball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Paint
By definition, strategic ticky-tacking is lying with the aim of gaining a competitive advantage. To ticky-tack strategically is to claim, knowingly and intentionally, that a foul has happened when it hasn't. As a form of cheating, ticky-tacking is unfair.
Jerry Walls, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TACKING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tacking is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Expert: Airlines to continue tacking on fees
The airline industry pulled in a record $38 billion last year in checked baggage, reservation changes and other fees. An airline expert University of North ... «WSOC Charlotte, Jul 15»
2
Tacking right
Tacking right. Helle Thorning-Schmidt and her Social Democrats are out of government. The hard-right Danish People's Party may be in. Jun 19th 2015 ... «The Economist, Jun 15»
3
Why is Hillary Clinton Tacking Left?
It could be politics or it could be principle. Her team wants you to believe it's both. By Ron Fournier · Follow on Twitter. +. Hillary Clinton.(SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty ... «National Journal, May 15»
4
Cyclists' protest ride calls for action on Yarra Boulevard tacking
ENRAGED cyclists will stage a protest this weekend after 15 months of dodging dangerous tacks, glass and metal shards deliberately laid along a popular inner ... «Herald Sun, Apr 15»
5
Trademark Tacking and the Landscape of Priority Disputes
The tacking doctrine is a common-law principle that permits a user of a mark to maintain his or her priority even when the mark undergoes some change, ... «The Legal Intelligencer, Apr 15»
6
Trademark Tacking is Factual Question For Juries Says U.S. …
In its first trademark ruling in a decade, the U.S. Supreme Court in Hana Financial, Inc. v. Hana Bank unanimously held that the question of trademark tacking is ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Mar 15»
7
Joe Scarborough's Rhetoric Slowly But Surely Tacking Leftward on …
But now it seems ol' Joe has undergone a perceptible shift in rhetoric, tacking significantly back to the left. While still reminding everyone of the previous ... «NewsBusters, Mar 15»
8
Supreme Court Rules that Trademark Tacking is a Question for Juries
Hana Bank, 574 U.S. ___ (2015), that trademark tacking is a question for juries. Trademark tacking, or the ability to "tack" a new mark to an older mark in order to ... «The National Law Review, Feb 15»
9
Trademark tacking: Supreme Court decides who decides
Hana Bank decision, a trademark owner can also use the tacking doctrine to defend its use of a newer mark that arguably encroaches upon an older mark. «Lexology, Feb 15»
10
UPS Hates Coming To Your House, To Begin Tacking On …
The surcharges aren't something that you'll see immediately applied everywhere, but will be rolled out as UPS renegotiates its shipping contracts with its largest ... «The Consumerist, Feb 15»

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