Tack may refer to:

People

Given name or nickname

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, and ...

(1875–1936), American baseball catcher *

Tacks Neuer John Stein "Tacks" Neuer (June 8, 1877 – January 14, 1966) was a Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 3 ...

(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 François Tack (c. 1650 – 8 February 1686) was a Dutch East India Company (VOC) officer. Ranked captain at the time of his death, he was one of the VOC's main commanders during the 1678 Kediri campaign against Trunajaya and participated in th ...

(–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 Erik Tack (born 8 October 1958) is a Belgian politician for Vlaams Belang. Life Tack's occupation is general practitioner. Since 2001 Tack is councillor of Ronse. He also was a member of the Flemish parliament The Flemish Parliament ( ...

(born 1958), Belgian politician * Kerstin Tack (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 Blu Tack is a reusable putty-like pressure-sensitive adhesive produced by Bostik, commonly used to attach lightweight objects (such as posters or sheets of paper) to walls, doors or other dry surfaces. Traditionally blue, it is also a ...

, a reusable putty-like pressure-sensitive adhesive used for attaching paper items to walls *

Horse tack Tack is equipment or accessories equipped on horses and other equines in the course of their use as domesticated animals. This equipment includes such items as saddles, stirrups, bridles, halters, reins, bits, and harnesses. Equipping a horse ...

, 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 An ox ( : oxen ...

s *

Thumbtack A drawing pin (in British English) or thumb tack (in North American English) is a short nail or pin used to fasten items to a wall or board for display and intended to be inserted by hand, usually using the thumb. A variety of names is used ...

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 ...

, 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 Hardtack (or hard tack) is a simple type of dense biscuit or cracker made from flour, water, and sometimes salt. Hardtack is inexpensive and long-lasting. It is used for sustenance in the absence of perishable foods, commonly during long sea voy ...

, 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 ...

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 th ...

, 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-ol ...

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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 cal ...

\top

up tack The up tack or falsum (⊥, \bot in LaTeX, U+22A5 in Unicode) is a constant symbol used to represent: * The truth value 'false', or a logical constant denoting a proposition in logic that is always false (often called "falsum" or "absurdum"). * Th ...

\bot

left tack In mathematical logic and computer science the symbol \vdash has taken the name turnstile because of its resemblance to a typical turnstile if viewed from above. It is also referred to as tee and is often read as "yields", "proves", "satisfies" o ...