Sack vs. Hack
Sacknoun
A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
Sacknoun
The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).
Sacknoun
(uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
Sacknoun
(uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
Sacknoun
(American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback. See verb sense4 below.
Sacknoun
(baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
Sacknoun
(informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense4 below.
Sacknoun
Bed; usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
Sacknoun
(dated) (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders, such as a gown with a Watteau back or sack-back, fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century; or, formerly, a loose-fitting hip-length jacket, cloak or cape.
Sacknoun
(dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
Sacknoun
The scrotum.
Sacknoun
(dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.
Sackverb
To put in a sack or sacks.
Sackverb
To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
Sackverb
To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
Sackverb
(American football) To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass.
Sackverb
(informal) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
Sackverb
(colloquial) In the phrase sack out, to fall asleep. See also hit the sack.
Sacknoun
A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
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.
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.
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.
Sacknoun
A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
Sacknoun
See 2d Sac, 2.
Sacknoun
Bed.
Sacknoun
The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
Sackverb
To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
Sackverb
To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
Sackverb
To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
Sacknoun
a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
Sacknoun
an enclosed space;
Sacknoun
the quantity contained in a sack
Sacknoun
any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
Sacknoun
a woman's full loose hiplength jacket
Sacknoun
a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swing easily
Sacknoun
a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
Sacknoun
the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter;
Sacknoun
the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
Sackverb
plunder (a town) after capture;
Sackverb
terminate the employment of;
Sackverb
make as a net profit;
Sackverb
put in a sack;
Sacknoun
a large bag made of a strong material such as hessian, thick paper, or plastic, used for storing and carrying goods.
Sacknoun
the contents of a sack or the amount it can contain
Sacknoun
a woman's short loose unwaisted dress, typically narrowing at the hem, popular especially in the 1950s.
Sacknoun
a woman's long loose dress or gown.
Sacknoun
a decorative piece of dress material fastened to the shoulders of a woman's gown in loose pleats and forming a long train, fashionable in the 18th century.
Sacknoun
dismissal from employment
Sacknoun
bed, especially as regarded as a place for sex.
Sacknoun
a base.
Sacknoun
an act of tackling of a quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.
Sacknoun
the pillaging of a town or city
Sacknoun
a dry white wine formerly imported into Britain from Spain and the Canaries.
Sackverb
dismiss from employment
Sackverb
tackle (a quarterback) behind the line of scrimmage
Sackverb
put into a sack or sacks
Sackverb
(chiefly in historical contexts) plunder and destroy (a captured town or building)
Hackverb
(transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
Hackverb
(intransitive) To cough noisily.
Hackverb
To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
Hackverb
(computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
Hackverb
(computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
Hackverb
To work with something on an intimately technical level.
Hackverb
To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
Hackverb
To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code; to crack.
Hackverb
By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
Hackverb
(ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.
Hackverb
(ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
Hackverb
(baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
Hackverb
(soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
Hackverb
To strike in a frantic movement.
Hackverb
(transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
Hackverb
To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
Hackverb
(falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
Hackverb
(dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
Hackverb
To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
Hackverb
(obsolete) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
Hackverb
(obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
Hackverb
To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
Hackverb
To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
Hackverb
To play hackeysack.
Hacknoun
A tool for chopping.
Hacknoun
A hacking blow.
Hacknoun
A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
Hacknoun
A dry cough.
Hacknoun
A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
Hacknoun
(figuratively) A try, an attempt.
Hacknoun
(curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
Hacknoun
(obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
Hacknoun
(computing) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date.
Hacknoun
(computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
Hacknoun
(colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
Hacknoun
An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
Hacknoun
A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
Hacknoun
Time check.
Hacknoun
(baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.
Hacknoun
A kick on the shins in football.
Hacknoun
confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment
Hacknoun
(falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
Hacknoun
A food-rack for cattle.
Hacknoun
A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
Hacknoun
A grating in a mill race.
Hacknoun
A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
Hacknoun
A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
Hacknoun
(pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
Hacknoun
(slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
Hacknoun
A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
Hacknoun
A hearse.
Hacknoun
An untalented writer.
Hacknoun
(pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
Hacknoun
(pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
Hacknoun
(politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory)
Hacknoun
(obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
Hacknoun
(obsolete) A procuress.
Hacknoun
A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
Hacknoun
A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
Hacknoun
Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
Hacknoun
A notch; a cut.
Hacknoun
An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
Hacknoun
A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
Hacknoun
A kick on the shins, or a cut from a kick.
Hacknoun
A clever computer program or routine within a program to accomplish an objective in a non-obvious fashion.
Hacknoun
A quick and inelegant, though functional solution to a programming problem.
Hacknoun
A taxicab.
Hacknoun
A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.
Hacknoun
A coach or carriage let for hire; a hackney coach; formerly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; now, usually a taxicab.
Hacknoun
The driver of a hack; a taxi driver; a hackman.
Hacknoun
A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
Hacknoun
A procuress.
Hackverb
To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
Hackverb
Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
Hackverb
To program (a computer) for pleasure or compulsively; especially, to try to defeat the security systems and gain unauthorized access to a computer.
Hackverb
To bear, physically or emotionally; as, he left the job because he couldn't hack the pressure.
Hackverb
To kick the shins of (an opposing payer).
Hackverb
To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
Hackverb
To ride or drive as one does with a hack horse; to ride at an ordinary pace, or over the roads, as distinguished from riding across country or in military fashion.
Hackverb
To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
Hackverb
To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
Hackverb
To be exposed or offered to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
Hackverb
To live the life of a drudge or hack.
Hackadjective
Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
Hacknoun
one who works hard at boring tasks
Hacknoun
a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
Hacknoun
a mediocre and disdained writer
Hacknoun
a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for hacking the soil
Hacknoun
a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
Hacknoun
an old or over-worked horse
Hacknoun
a horse kept for hire
Hacknoun
a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
Hackverb
cut with a hacking tool
Hackverb
informal: be able to manage or manage successfully;
Hackverb
cut away;
Hackverb
kick on the arms
Hackverb
kick on the shins
Hackverb
fix a computer program piecemeal until it works;
Hackverb
significantly cut up a manuscript
Hackverb
cough spasmodically;
Hackverb
cut with rough or heavy blows
Hackverb
kick wildly or roughly
Hackverb
gain unauthorized access to data in a system or computer
Hackverb
program quickly and roughly.
Hackverb
cough persistently
Hackverb
manage; cope
Hackverb
ride a horse for pleasure or exercise
Hacknoun
a rough cut, blow, or stroke
Hacknoun
(in sport) a kick or a stroke with a stick inflicted on another player.
Hacknoun
a notch cut in the ice, or a peg inserted, to steady the foot when delivering a stone in curling.
Hacknoun
a tool for rough striking or cutting, e.g. a mattock or a miner's pick.
Hacknoun
a gash or wound.
Hacknoun
an act of computer hacking
Hacknoun
a piece of computer code providing a quick or inelegant solution to a particular problem
Hacknoun
a strategy or technique for managing one's time or activities more efficiently
Hacknoun
a writer or journalist producing dull, unoriginal work
Hacknoun
a person who does dull routine work.
Hacknoun
a horse for ordinary riding.
Hacknoun
a good-quality lightweight riding horse, especially one used in the show ring.
Hacknoun
a ride on a horse.
Hacknoun
a horse let out for hire.
Hacknoun
an inferior or worn-out horse.
Hacknoun
a taxi.
Hacknoun
a board on which a hawk's meat is laid.
Hacknoun
a wooden frame for drying bricks, cheeses, etc.
Hacknoun
a pile of bricks stacked up to dry before firing.
