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tackmeaning

verb·B2·4 letters

to fasten with small nails, or change direction

Example sentence

He tacked the poster to the wall with small pins.

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Give me a sentence with "tack".

He tacked the poster to the wall with small pins.

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That works. Now tell me where you last heard "tack".

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Levels come from the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile v1.5 by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 by Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meanings and example sentences are written by VocaFlare.

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