Tack may refer to:

People

Given name or nickname

* Tacks Latimer (1875–1936), American baseball catcher *

Tacks Neuer John Stein "Tacks" Neuer (June 8, 1877 – January 14, 1966) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the New York Highlanders in . In seven career games, he had a 4–2 record, with a 2.17 earned run average (ERA) and 22 strikeouts. A ...

(1877–1966), American baseball pitcher *

Tack Wilson Michael "Tack" Wilson (born May 16, 1955) is an American former professional baseball player. He played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Minnesota Twins and California Angels in 1983 and 1987. Primarily an outfielder ...

(born 1955), American baseball outfielder *

Wong Tack Wong Tack (; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ''Vòng Tet'') is a Malaysian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bentong from May 2018 to November 2022. He is an independent and was a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a componen ...

(born 1959), Malaysian politician * Irwin "Tack" Kuntz (), American pharmaceutical chemist

Surname

* François Tack (–1686), Dutch East India Company officer *

Augustus Vincent Tack Augustus Vincent Tack (1870–1949) was an American painter of portraits, landscapes and abstractions. Early years Tack was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and moved with his family to New York in 1883. After graduating from St. Francis Xavier ...

(1870–1949), American painter *

Anita Tack Anita Tack (born 4 April 1951) is a German politician who is a member of The Left. From 2009 to 2014, she was the Minister of the Environment, Health, and Consumer Protection for the state of Brandenburg. Since 1994, she has been a member of th ...

(born 1951), German politician of the Left Party * Erik Tack (born 1958), Belgian politician *

Kerstin Tack Kerstin Tack (born 11 November 1968) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony from 2009 until 2021. She is the Member of the German Bundestag for Stadt Han ...

(born 1968), German politician of the Social Democratic Party

Implements, and creative or constructive tasks and materials

Tack (sewing) In sewing, to tack or baste is to sew quick, temporary stitches that will later be removed. Tacking is used for a variety of reasons, such as holding a seam in place until it is sewn properly, or transferring pattern markings onto the garment. Tac ...

(also ''baste'' or ''pin''), quick, temporary stitching intended to be removed * Blu Tack, a reusable putty-like pressure-sensitive adhesive used for attaching paper items to walls * Horse tack, equipment used to allow riding or driving of horses and some other riding animals * Thumbtack or ''drawing pin'', a short nail or pin easily placed and removed by hand *

Shoe tack In woodworking and construction, a nail is a small object made of metal (or wood, called a tree nail or "trunnel") which is used as a fastener, as a peg to hang something, or sometimes as a decoration. Generally, nails have a sharp point on one e ...

, a type of cut nail, used in upholstery, shoe making and saddle manufacture * Tack weld, a specific short and often temporary type of weld

Sailing

* A tack as a part of the tacking maneuver; in which a sailing boat turns its bow through the wind *

Tack (sailing) A tack is a nautical term both for the lower, windward corner of a sail and, ''separately'', for the windward side of a sailing craft (side from which the wind is coming while under way—the starboard or port tack. Generally, a boat is on a star ...

, the lower corner of a sail's leading edge * Tack (square sail), a type of rigging unique to square sails

Other uses

* Hardtack, a hard cracker or biscuit used for food on sea voyages and by soldiers during the American Civil War. * Scottish lease, as held by a tacksman * Tack, another name for Adhesion, stickiness in chemistry * The Tack, a parliamentary maneuver supported by Tackers in 1704 * The grand tack hypothesis on the origin of the structure of the Solar System * TACK, a proposed archaeal supergroup, presumably a sister taxon of hypothetical Asgard taxon within the proteoarchaeota kingdom * TACK, a proposed network security standard co-created by Moxie Marlinspike * Any of the four symbols **right tack

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** down tack

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** up tack

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** left tack