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Definition of 'sack' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) sack
a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.

2.  sack
the amount a sack holds.

3.  sack
a bag:
a sack of candy.

4.  sack
Slang. dismissal, as from a job:
to get the sack.

5.  sack
Slang. bed.

6.  sack
a loose-fitting dress, esp. one fashionable in the late 17th–18th century.

7.  sack
a loose-fitting coat, jacket, or cape.

8.  sack
Baseball. a base.

9. (v.t.) sack
to put into a sack or sacks.

10.  sack
Football. to tackle (the quarterback) behind the line of scrimmage before the quarterback is able to throw a pass.

11.  sack
Slang. to dismiss or discharge, as from a job.

12.  sack
Slang. to go to bed; fall asleep.

13. (v.t.) sack
to pillage or loot (a place) after capture; plunder.

14. (n.) sack
the plundering of a captured place:
the sack of Troy.

15. (n.) sack
a strong white wine formerly imported by England from Spain and the Canary Islands.

Etymology:  (1525–35; < F (vin) sec dry (wine) < L siccus dry; cf. sec)

Definition of 'sack' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) sack, poke, paper bag, carrier bag
a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

2. (noun) pouch, sac, sack, pocket
an enclosed space
"the trapped miners found a pocket of air"

3. (noun) sack, sackful
the quantity contained in a sack

4. (noun) sack
any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)

5. (noun) sack, sacque
a woman's full loose hiplength jacket

6. (noun) hammock, sack
a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily

7. (noun) chemise, sack, shift
a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist

8. (noun) sack
the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter
"the sack of Rome"

9. (verb) dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking
the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

10. (verb) sack, plunder
plunder (a town) after capture
"the barbarians sacked Rome"

11. (verb) displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
"The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

12. (verb) net, sack, sack up, clear
make as a net profit
"The company cleared $1 million"

13. (verb) sack
put in a sack
"The grocer sacked the onions"


Definition of 'sack' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) sack
a large cloth bag
a sack of wheat

2.  sack
get the sack/give sb the sack
to be dismissed or dismiss sb from a job

3. (verb) sack
to dismiss sb from a job


Definition of 'sack' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) sack
a name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines

2. (noun) sack
a bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch

3. (noun) sack
a measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels

4. (noun) sack
originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack

5. (noun) sack
a sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam

6. (noun) sack
see 2d Sac, 2

7. (noun) sack
bed

8. (noun) sack
the pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage

9. (verb) sack
to put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn

10. (verb) sack
to bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders

11. (verb) sack
to plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage


Translation of 'sack' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a large bag of coarse cloth, strong paper or plastic
The potatoes were put into sacks.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: sak Arabic flag Arabic: كيس كَبير Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: чувал
Brazilian flag Brazilian: sacola Czech flag Czech: pytel German flag German: der Sack
Danish flag Danish: sæk Greek flag Greek: σάκος, τσουβάλι Spanish flag Spanish: saco
Estonian flag Estonian: (suur) kott Farsi flag Farsi: كيسه Finnish flag Finnish: säkki
French flag French: sac Hebrew flag Hebrew: שָׂק Hindi flag Hindi: बोरा, बोरी
Croatian flag Croatian: vreća, kesa Hungarian flag Hungarian: zsák Indonesian flag Indonesian: karung
Icelandic flag Icelandic: poki Italian flag Italian: sacco Japanese flag Japanese: 大袋
Korean flag Korean: 부대 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: maišas Latvian flag Latvian: maiss
Malay flag Malay: pundi; kantung Dutch flag Dutch: zak Norwegian flag Norwegian: sekk; pose
Polish flag Polish: worek Persian flag Persian: كيسه Pashto flag Pashto: بوجی
Portuguese flag Portuguese: saco Romanian flag Romanian: sac Russian flag Russian: мешок
Slovak flag Slovak: vrece Slovenian flag Slovenian: vreča Serbian flag Serbian: vreća
Swedish flag Swedish: säck Thai flag Thai: กระสอบ Turkish flag Turkish: çuval, torba
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 寬口大粗布袋,硬紙袋或塑膠袋 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: мішок, лантух Urdu flag Urdu: بوری
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: bao tải Chinese flag Chinese: 麻袋,硬纸袋

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