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Meaning of "thumbtack" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THUMBTACK

thumbtack  [ˈθʌmˌtæk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THUMBTACK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Thumbtack 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 THUMBTACK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

thumbtack

Drawing pin

A thumb tack or push pin is a short nail or pin used to fasten items to a wall or board for display and intended to be inserted by hand, generally without the assistance of tools. A variety of names are used to refer to different designs intended for various purpose. Thumb tack and push pin are both sometimes compounded or hyphenated. Thumb tacks made of brass, tin or iron may be referred to as brass tacks, brass pins, tin tacks or iron tacks, respectively. These terms are particularly used in the idiomatic expression to come down to brass tacks, meaning to consider basic facts of a situation. Drawing pin or drawing-pin refers to thumb tacks used to hold drawings on drawing boards. Map pin or map tack refers to thumb tacks used to mark locations on a map and to hold the map in place.

Definition of thumbtack in the English dictionary

The definition of thumbtack in the dictionary is a short tack with a broad smooth head for fastening papers to a drawing board, etc Also called : drawing pin.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH THUMBTACK


attack
əˈtæk
Blu-tack
ˈbluːtæk
counterattack
ˈkaʊntərəˌtæk
Cuttack
kʌˈtæk
hackmatack
ˈhækməˌtæk
hardtack
ˈhɑːdˌtæk
haystack
ˈheɪˌstæk
isotach
ˈaɪsəʊˌtæk
nunatak
ˈnʌnəˌtæk
restack
ˌriːˈstæk
smokestack
ˈsməʊkˌstæk
stack
stæk
tach
tæk
tack
tæk
ticktack
ˈtɪkˌtæk
tie-tack
ˈtaɪˌtæk
tietac
ˈtaɪˌtæk
tintack
ˈtɪnˌtæk
unstack
ʌnˈstæk
untack
ʌnˈtæk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THUMBTACK

thumb knot
thumb one´s nose at
thumb piano
thumbhole
thumbikins
thumbless
thumblike
thumbling
thumbnail
thumbnail sketch
thumbnut
thumbpiece
thumbpot
thumbprint
thumbs down
thumbs up
thumbscrew
thumbstall
thumbwheel
thumby

WORDS THAT END LIKE THUMBTACK

airborne attack
angle of attack
anxiety attack
arson attack
banzai attack
bilious attack
chimney stack
dictionary attack
ground attack
hard tack
heart attack
impingement attack
line of attack
on the wrong tack
panic attack
rocket attack
suicide attack
the attack
tie tack
torpedo attack

Synonyms and antonyms of thumbtack in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «thumbtack» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THUMBTACK

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

Translator English - Chinese

图钉
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

chincheta
570 millions of speakers

English

thumbtack
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

थंर्बटेक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مِسْمَارٌ صَغِيرٌ يُدْفَعُ بِالإبْهَام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кнопка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tachinha
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

থাম্ট্যাক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

punaise
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Thumbtack
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Heftzwecke
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

画鋲
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

압핀
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Thumbtack
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đinh bấm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

thumbtack
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

थंबटॅक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

raptiye
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

puntina
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pinezka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

креслярська кнопка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pioneză
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πινέζα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pinaise
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

häftstift
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tegnestift
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of thumbtack

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THUMBTACK»

The term «thumbtack» is quite widely used and occupies the 51.066 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THUMBTACK» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THUMBTACK»

Discover the use of thumbtack in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to thumbtack and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The animated thumbtack railroad dollhouse & all-around ...
A compendium of games, puzzles, jokes, surprises, and information both useful and useless.
Louis Phillips, 1975
2
Geometrical Vectors
that a thumbtack is parallel to a stack, but not to an arrow; it can, however, be contained in an arrow, but not in a stack (Sec. 2.4). We define the magnitude of a thumbtack to be its area, the shape being immaterial. Two thumbtacks are, in other ...
Gabriel Weinreich, 1998
3
Math Insights Tb S3a Nt
Make A Simple Yet Beautiful Art Piece What you will need: A piece of styrofoam of size 20 cm by 20 cm, A styrofoam cutter or a pen knife, A box of coloured thumbtack (try to get those with a longer pin body), Coloured threads of one or two ...
Lim, Teo, Whey & Quinn, 2007
4
Pm Science Challenging Qns Sci P3/4
Horseshoe magnet Thumbtack A Thumbtack B Which of the following explains why thumbtack B is attracted to thumbtack A? (1) Thumbtack A is an electromagnet. (2) Thumbtack A is made of a non-magnetic material. (3) Thumbtack A has ...
Manisha Nayak
5
Safe and Simple Electrical Experiments
Then, at the other end of each paper clip make a tiny loop which will go around the thumbtack which will be used to hold it in place. Scrape all the insulation off the head of a third thumbtack. Be sure that no paint is left. Also clean the insulation ...
Rudolf F. Graf, 1973
6
The Animated Thumbtack Railroad Dollhouse & All-around ...
A compendium of games, puzzles, jokes, surprises, and information both useful and useless.
Lynn Braswell, 1975
7
Probabilistic Methods for Financial and Marketing Informatics
2.3.2 Subjective Approach to Probability If we tossed a thumbtack 10,000 times and it landed heads 6000 times, we would estimate P(heads) to be .6. Exactly what does this number approximate? Is there some probability, accurate to an ...
Richard E. Neapolitan, Xia Jiang, 2010
8
Probabilistic Methods for Bioinformatics: with an ...
If we tossed a thumbtack 10,000 times and it landed heads 6000 times, we would estimate S(khdgv) to be .6. Exactly what does this number approximate? Is there some probability, accurate to an arbitrary number of digits, of the thumbtack ...
Richard E. Neapolitan, 2009
9
Contemporary Artificial Intelligence
If we tossed a thumbtack 10,000 times and it landed heads 6000 times, we would estimate (heads) to be .6. Exactly what does this number approximate? Is there some probability, accurate to an arbitrary number of digits, of the thumbtack ...
Richard E. Neapolitan, Xia Jiang, 2012
10
Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques
17.1.1 The Thumbtack Example We start with what may be considered the simplest learning problem: parameter learning for a single variable. This is a classical Statistics 101 problem that illustrates some of the issues that we will encounter in ...
Daphne Koller, Nir Friedman, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THUMBTACK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term thumbtack is used in the context of the following news items.
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Presidential Candidate Jeb Bush Visits San Francisco's Thumbtack
Presidential contender Jeb Bush pulled up Thursday in an Uber-driven Toyota Camry to visit a startup as part of a fundraising swing through the San Francisco ... «NBC Bay Area, Jul 15»
2
Hub business wary of future
According to the most recent Thumbtack Small Business Friendliness Survey, Boston small business owners continue to have a more positive view of the current ... «BayStateBanner, Jul 15»
3
Small Business Optimism Slides in June
Expectations of future credit conditions were the most resilient of the 11 indicators Thumbtack examined, continuing to reflect a general increase in the ease of ... «eWeek, Jul 15»
4
Google: Write A Great Reconsideration Request, Get Back In Fast …
Last week, Google penalized Thumbtack, a Google Capital-funded company, ... Some suspect that Google may have given Thumbtack special treatment ... «Search Engine Land, Jun 15»
5
Google Drops The Thumbtack Link Penalty Less Than A Week After …
Last week, Thumbtack's co-founder confirmed with Search Engine Land they had a manual action issued by Google over unnatural links pointing to their site. «Search Engine Land, Jun 15»
6
Thumbtack, a Startup Backed by Google, Returns to Google's …
Here's one: When Thumbtack, a Web startup that connects consumers with home service professionals, disappeared from Google's search results last weekend, ... «Re/code, Jun 15»
7
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: June 12, 2015
This week in search, we covered a possible Google update starting around Wednesday night. Google penalized Thumbtack, a Google Capital backed web site ... «Search Engine Roundtable, Jun 15»
8
Confirmed: Google Capital-Backed Thumbtack Hit With Manual …
Thumbtack, a service professionals hiring web site, which was backed by Google Capital in August 2014, has received a manual action from the Google search ... «Search Engine Land, Jun 15»
9
This Small Business Survey Shows a More Optimistic Picture Than …
The Thumbtack Small Business Sentiment Index continued on an upward trajectory during the first quarter, suggesting that the small-business sector may be ... «Bloomberg, May 15»
10
Redfin and Thumbtack Recommend Ways for Home Sellers to Use …
Redfin and Thumbtack teamed up to identify home improvement projects that home sellers should tackle first if they only have a budget of $3,000, which is the ... «Business Wire, Mar 15»

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