What does sack mean?

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sæksack

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sack, poke, paper bag, carrier bagnoun

    a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

  2. pouch, sac, sack, pocketnoun

    an enclosed space

    "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"

  3. sack, sackfulnoun

    the quantity contained in a sack

  4. sacknoun

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

  5. sack, sacquenoun

    a woman's full loose hiplength jacket

  6. hammock, sacknoun

    a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily

  7. chemise, sack, shiftnoun

    a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist

  8. sacknoun

    the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter

    "the sack of Rome"

  9. dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sackingverb

    the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

  10. sack, plunderverb

    plunder (a town) after capture

    "the barbarians sacked Rome"

  11. displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminateverb

    terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

    "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

  12. net, sack, sack up, clearverb

    make as a net profit

    "The company cleared $1 million"

  13. sackverb

    put in a sack

    "The grocer sacked the onions"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. SACKnoun

    Etymology: שק, Hebrew; σά ος; saccus, Latin; sæc , Sax.

    Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city,
    And we be lords and rulers over Roan. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

    Vastius caused the authors of that mutiny to be thrust into sacks, and in the sight of the fleet cast into the sea. Richard Knolles.

  2. Sacknoun

    Etymology: from the verb.

    If Saturn’s son bestows
    The sack of Troy, which he by promise owes,
    Then shall the conqu’ring Greeks thy loss restore. Dryden.

    Please you drink a cup of sack. William Shakespeare.

    The butler hath great advantage to allure the maids with a glass of sack. Jonathan Swift.

  3. To Sackverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    Now the great work is done, the corn is ground,
    The grist is sack’d, and every sack well bound. Thomas Betterton.

    Edward Bruce spoiled and burnt all the old English pale inhabitants, and sacked and rased all cities and corporate towns. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

    I’ll make thee stoop and bend thy knee,
    Or sack this country with a mutiny. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

    What armies conquer’d, perish’d with thy sword?
    What cities sack’d? Edward Fairfax.

    Who sees these dismal heaps, but would demand
    What barbarous invader sack’d the land? John Denham.

    The pope himself was ever after unfortunate, Rome being twice taken and sacked in his reign. Robert South, Sermons.

    The great magazine for all kinds of treasure is the bed of the Tiber: when the Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their city sacked by a barbarous enemy, they would take care to bestow such of their riches this way as could best bear the water. Addison.

Wikipedia

  1. Sack

    The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the main protocols of the Internet protocol suite. It originated in the initial network implementation in which it complemented the Internet Protocol (IP). Therefore, the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP. TCP provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of octets (bytes) between applications running on hosts communicating via an IP network. Major internet applications such as the World Wide Web, email, remote administration, and file transfer rely on TCP, which is part of the Transport Layer of the TCP/IP suite. SSL/TLS often runs on top of TCP. TCP is connection-oriented, and a connection between client and server is established before data can be sent. The server must be listening (passive open) for connection requests from clients before a connection is established. Three-way handshake (active open), retransmission, and error detection adds to reliability but lengthens latency. Applications that do not require reliable data stream service may use the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) instead, which provides a connectionless datagram service that prioritizes time over reliability. TCP employs network congestion avoidance. However, there are vulnerabilities in TCP, including denial of service, connection hijacking, TCP veto, and reset attack.

ChatGPT

  1. sack

    A sack is a type of bag, usually made from a material such as hessian, cloth, paper or plastic, which is used for holding or carrying various items. The opening of the sack can typically be tied or sealed. The term can also refer to dismissing someone from their job, particularly in a sports context.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sacknoun

    a name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines

  2. Sacknoun

    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. Sacknoun

    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. Sacknoun

    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. Sacknoun

    a sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam

  6. Sacknoun

    see 2d Sac, 2

  7. Sacknoun

    bed

  8. Sackverb

    to put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn

  9. Sackverb

    to bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders

  10. Sacknoun

    the pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage

  11. Sackverb

    to plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage

  12. Etymology: [See Sack pillage.]

Wikidata

  1. Sack

    Sack is a fictional mutant supervillain created by Marvel Comics for their team called Gene Nation. His first appearance was in Uncanny X-Men #323.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sack

    sak, n. a large bag of coarse cloth for holding grain, flour, &c.: the contents of a sack: (also Sacque) a woman's gown, loose at the back, a short coat rounded at the bottom: a measure of varying capacity.—v.t. to put into a sack: (slang) to dismiss.—ns. Sack′-bear′er, any bombycid moth of the family Psychidæ; Sack′cloth, cloth for sacks: coarse cloth formerly worn in mourning or penance.—adj. Sack′clothed.—ns. Sacked′-frī′ar, a monk who wore a coarse upper garment called a saccus; Sack′er, a machine for filling sacks; Sack′-fil′ter, a bag-filter; Sack′ful, as much as a sack will hold; Sack′-hoist, a continuous hoist for raising sacks in warehouses; Sack′ing, coarse cloth or canvas for sacks, bed-bottoms, &c.; Sack′-pack′er, in milling, a machine for automatically filling a flour-sack; Sack′-race, a race in which the legs of competitors are encased in sacks.—Get the sack, to be dismissed or rejected; Give the sack, to dismiss. [A.S. sacc—L. saccus—Gr. sakkos—Heb. saq, a coarse cloth or garment, prob. Egyptian.]

  2. Sack

    sak, v.t. to plunder: to ravage.—n. the plunder or devastation of a town: pillage.—ns. Sack′age; Sack′ing, the storming and pillaging of a town.—adj. bent on pillaging.—Sack and fork (Scot.), the power of drowning and hanging. [Fr. sac, a sack, plunder (saccager, to sack)—L. saccus, a sack.]

  3. Sack

    sak, n. the old name of a dry Spanish wine of the sherry genus, the favourite drink of Falstaff.—n. Sack′-poss′et, posset made with sack.—Burnt sack, mulled sack. [Fr. sec (Sp. seco)—L. siccus, dry.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. sack

    The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage. Also, to plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.

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  1. SACK

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Etymology and Origins

  1. Sack

    A dry wine of great repute in Elizabethan times, so called from the French sec, dry.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SACK

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sack is ranked #8791 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Sack surname appeared 3,729 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Sack.

    92.5% or 3,450 total occurrences were White.
    2.4% or 91 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.5% or 59 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.3% or 51 total occurrences were Asian.
    1.1% or 41 total occurrences were Black.
    0.9% or 37 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'sack' in Nouns Frequency: #2727

  2. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'sack' in Verbs Frequency: #968

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sack in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sack in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of sack in a Sentence

  1. Bob Goalby:

    One guy wrote, ‘ They ought to put you and Sonny Liston in a sack of concrete and dump you in the ocean. ’ The negative-to-positive ratio was 10-to-1 negative, the letters piled up, and every one of them hurt. For some reason, I’ve kept that hate mail. I do n’t know why. Maybe to one day explain to people what the experience was like.

  2. Probaerb:

    When God sends flour the devil carries off the sack.

  3. Vis Raghavan:

    No one wants any economic tumult to sack this recovery, whatever happens, there will be intervention to assure there's no economic pain.

  4. Jimmy MacDonald:

    I remember waking up Christmas day, and there were penguins scattered in between almost every bivy sack, they were just taking the night off there, too. We’ve had Weddell seals within 15 meters (about 50 feet) of people sleeping. And you haven’t lived until you’ve heard the seals singing and making those strange burping noises. It sounds crazy spooky.

  5. Remy de Gourmont:

    The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

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