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People


Given name or nickname

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Tacks Latimer Clifford Wesley "Tacks" Latimer (November 30, 1875 – April 24, 1936) was an American professional baseball catcher who played in Major League Baseball for the New York Giants, Louisville Colonels, Pittsburgh Pirates, Baltimore Orioles, a ...
(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 (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

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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 animal A working animal is an animal, usually domesticated, that is kept by humans and trained to perform tasks instead of being slaughtered to harvest animal products. Some are used for their physical strength (e.g. oxen and draft horses) or for t ...
s * 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) The tack of a square-rigged sail is a line attached to its lower corner. This is in contrast to the more common fore-and-aft sail, whose tack is a part of the sail itself, the corner which is (possibly semi-permanently) secured to the vessel. Most ...
, 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 A tacksman ( gd, Fear-Taic, meaning "supporting man"; most common Scots spelling: ''takisman'') was a landholder of intermediate legal and social status in Scottish Highland society. Tenant and landlord Although a tacksman generally paid a year ...
* Tack, another name for stickiness in chemistry * The Tack, a parliamentary maneuver supported by
Tackers Tackers was the name given to High Tory Members of Parliament who in 1704 tried to attach ('tack') an Occasional Conformity Bill to money bills in order to pass it through the House of Lords and into law. The Tackers ultimately failed in their eff ...
in 1704 * The
grand tack hypothesis In planetary astronomy, the grand tack hypothesis proposes that Jupiter formed at 3.5 AU, then migrated inward to 1.5 AU, before reversing course due to capturing Saturn in an orbital resonance, eventually halting near its current orbit at 5.2 AU. ...
on the origin of the structure of the Solar System *
TACK TACK is a group of archaea acronym for Thaumarchaeota (now Nitrososphaerota), Aigarchaeota, Crenarchaeota (now Thermoproteota), and Korarchaeota, the first groups discovered. They are found in different environments ranging from acidophilic the ...
, 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 Moxie Marlinspike is an American entrepreneur, cryptographer, and computer security researcher. Marlinspike is the creator of Signal, co-founder of the Signal Technology Foundation, and served as the first CEO of Signal Messenger LLC. He is als ...
* Any of the four symbols **
right tack Right Tack (1966–1985) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from June 1968 to October 1969 he ran twelve times, winning eight races and finishing second three times. As a two-year-old ...
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down tack The tee (⊤, \top in LaTeX) also called down tack (as opposed to the up tack) or verum is a symbol used to represent: * The top element in lattice theory. * The truth value of being true in logic, or a sentence (e.g., formula in propositional calcu ...
\top ** up tack \bot ** left tack \dashv


See also

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TAC (disambiguation) TAC, or tac, may refer to: People * Pablo Tac, US scholar * Pham Cong Tac, a leader of the Cao Dai religion Places * Tác, a village in Fejér County, Hungary Organisations * TAC (building automation), a Swedish building automation company * Ta ...
* Tacking (disambiguation) * Tact (disambiguation) *
Tak (disambiguation) Tak or TAK may refer to: Places * Dağdöşü or Tak, Azerbaijan, a village * Taq, Iran or Tak, a village * Tak province, Thailand ** Tak, Thailand, capital of the province Entertainment *'' Total Annihilation: Kingdoms'' or ''TA:K'' * Tak, ...
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