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Sack

Definition: Sack

Sack

Noun

1. A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases.

2. An enclosed space.

3. The quantity contained in a sack.

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

5. A woman's full loose hiplength jacket.

6. A hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swing easily.

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

8. The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart).

Verb

1. Plunder after capture, as of a town.

2. Terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today".

3. Make as a net profit; "The company cleared $1 million".

4. Put in a sack; "The grocer sacked the onions".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sack" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Sack

DomainDefinition

Literature

Sack Any dry wine, as sherry sack, Madeira sack, Canary sack, and Palm sack. (A corruption of the French sec, dry.)
Sack A bag. According to tradition, it was the last word uttered before the tongues were confounded at Babel. (Saxon, saec; German, sack; Welsh, sach; Irish, sac; French, sac, Latin, saccus; Italian, sacco; Spanish, sáco; Greek, sakkos, Hebrew, sak; Swedish, sáck; etc., etc.)
To get the sack or To give one the sack. To get discharged by one's employer. Mechanics travelling in quest of work carried their implements in a bag or sack; when discharged, they received back the bag that they might replace in it their tools, and seek a job elsewhere. Workmen still often carry a bag of tools, but so much is done by machines that bags of tools are decreasing.
The Sultan puts into a sack, and throws into the Bosphorus, any one of his harem he wishes out of the way
There are many cognate phrases, as To give one the bag, and Get the bag, which is merely substitutional. To receive the canvas is a very old expression, referring to the substance of which the sack or bag was made. The French Trousser vos quilles (pack up your ninepins or toys) is another idea, similar to "Pack up your tatters and follow the drum." (See Cashier.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang

Adjective. Source: Allie. Definition: Bag. Context: When you see someone that you don't like or that you think who is not cool. Social Source: "The Girls". Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Slang in 1811

SACK. A pocket. To buy the sack: to get drunk. To dive into the sack; to pick a pocket. To break a bottle in an empty sack; a bubble bet, a sack with a bottle in it not being an empty sack. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Sack

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The word sack can refer to:

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Sack

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

SACK

EnglishSubordinate acknowledgePost & Telecom
SAEnglishSackN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Sack

Synonyms: carrier bag (n), chemise (n), discharge (n), dismissal (n), dismission (n), firing (n), hammock (n), liberation (n), paper bag (n), pocket (n), poke (n), pouch (n), release (n), sac (n), sackful (n), sacking (n), sacque (n), shift (n), can (v), clear (v), dismiss (v), fire (v), force out (v), give notice (v), give the axe (v), net (v), plunder (v), sack up (v), send away (v), terminate (v). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: pouching (engineering & technology).
Antonym: hire (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Sack

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abrogation

Dismissal, conge, demission; bounce; deposal, deposition; dethronement; disestablishment, disendowment; deconsecration; sack, walking papers, pink slip, walking ticket; yellow cover.

Dismiss, discard; cast off, turn off, cast out, cast adrift, cast out of doors, cast aside, cast away; send off, send away, send packing, send about one's business; discharge, get rid of; (eject); bounce; fire, fire out; sack.

Acquisition

Find; come upon, pitch upon, light upon; scrape up, scrape together; get in, reap and carry, net, bag, sack, bring home, secure; derive, draw, get in the harvest.

Clothing

Robe, tunic, paletot, habit, gown, coat, frock, blouse, toga, smock frock, claw coat, hammer coat, Prince Albert coat, sack coat, tuxedo coat, frock coat, dress coat, tail coat.

Ejection

Eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser; banish; (punish); bounce ; fire, fire out; throw; throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push; throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll; (abrogate); turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to.

Receptacle

Pocket, pouch, fob, sheath, scabbard, socket, bag, sac, sack, saccule, wallet, cardcase, scrip, poke, knit, knapsack, haversack, sachel, satchel, reticule, budget, net; ditty bag, ditty box; housewife, hussif; saddlebags; portfolio; quiver; (magazine).

Chest, box, coffer, caddy, case, casket, pyx, pix, caisson, desk, bureau, reliquary; trunk, portmanteau, band-box, valise; grip, grip sack; skippet, vasculum; boot, imperial; vache; cage, manger, rack.

Stealing

Spoliation, plunder, pillage; sack, sackage; rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid; blackmail.

Plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger; bail up, hold up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster.

Taking

Verb: take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket; receive; accept.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Sack

English words defined with "sack": Air bedflyblowngrocery bag, Gunny bagmaggotySaccate, Sack posset, sack race, Sackage, sackfulWoolsack. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sack": amylopectinbag patcher, BALE SEWER, blanching-machine operator, Bristol Milk, BURNER TENDERCambyses, Cat Proverbs, COFFEE WEIGHERDog-cheap, DOODLE SACK, DRIER TENDERFARM-MACHINE TENDER, feed elevator worker, FEED WEIGHER, FEED-IN WORKER, Female, fish trap, flour mixergrocery packer, GunpowderIMMODESTJACOBmill operator, MILLER, WOOD FLOURnut-dehydrator operatorPEANUT BLANCHERRick Mould, ROTARY-CUTTER OPERATORsack mender, SACK REPAIRER, Seine, SH-T SACK, Soft Words Butter no Parsnips, stem-cleaning-machine feeder, stem-threshing-machine operatorTHRESHING-MACHINE OPERATOR, trap net, tromperWar of the Meal-sacks, WASTE-PAPER-HAMMERMILL OPERATOR, WOOL SACKER, wool tamper. (references)
Etymologies containing "sack": thylacine. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Sack" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (bag, bastard, bursa, pocket, poke, pouch, sac, sack, sackful, sod).

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Modern Usage: Sack

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Crawl back in your sack. (Stalag 17; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

Banish your self with a torch, large sack and rubber soled shoes, mean while i need a furrier, o, and i know just where to find him,, a ha ha (102 Dalmatians; writing credit: Dodie Smith; Kristen Buckley)

Wake up already. Never gonna happen! Only a complete loser would ever hook up with you, unless she's a simpleton like Harmony or a nut sack like Druscilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Sack the packets into brackets (Jetsons: The Movie; writing credit: Eric Luke)

We want Johnny Sack. But more than him, we want Mangano and Teresi (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España)

Lyrics

He use to carry his guitar in a gunny sack ("Johnny B. Goode"; performing artist: Chuck Berry)

Straight to the head like a chronic sack (Funkdafied; performing artist: Da Brat)

He put it his sack. (Return to Sender; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

Get a box or an old brown paper sack (Run; performing artist: George Strait)

It’s early to rise, early in the sack (Thank God I’m A Country Boy; performing artist: John Denver)

Tongue Twisters

Santa's sack sags slightly. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Die Katze im Sack (1965)

The Sad Sack (1957)

Die Katz' im Sack (1935)

Pimple Gets the Sack (1913)

Sack Race (1896)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Sack

DomainTitle

References

  • The World Market for Uncoated Kraft Sack Paper in Rolls or Sheets: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Flour Sack Bloomers (reference)

  • Is This a Sack of Potatoes? (reference)

  • Sack It and Pack It: Portable Potables for Brown Baggers and Other People Away from Home or on the Go (reference)

  • Sack of Teeth (reference)

  • Sad Sack (Classics of Modern American Humor Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Sack

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Photo Album: Sack

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Urban campers line up for a sack race during campout recreation activities. Credit: Cathy Rodine.

Birds in sack nests. Credit: Library of Congress.

Labor Day picnic sack race. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. New York, sack race, anniversary of Santiago. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sack warehouse for wheat. Touchet, Walla Walla County, Washington. Credit: Library of Congress.

Man salvaging coal; they receive ten cents per hundred pound sack or two dollars a ton, one man can make from ten to twenty sacks a day, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wheat elevator and sack warehouse. Kamiah, Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sign on wheat sack warehouse. Pomeroy, Washington. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sign on sack warehouse used for storing wheat. Garfield County, Washington. Credit: Library of Congress.

Former coal miner sitting on his front porch. He is the town philosopher, Jere, West Viriginia. Repairs his home. Note railing and potato sack awning. Experiments with an elaborate garden on a hill about two miles away. See 50081-E, 50057-E. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Sack
 

"Heart shaped potpourri" by Annie Andre
Commentary: "Red see through sack in the shape of a heart filled with lavendar potpourri. ."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Sack".

PlayCaption
Dropping a sack of coins onto a flat surface.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Sack

AuthorQuotation

John Arbuthnot Fisher

Sack the lot!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Sack

TitleAuthorQuote

Tangled Tale

Carroll, Lewis

ARVON MARLBOROUGH BOY only finds the weight of one sack.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The (r)in pace took the place of the leather sack.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

And your fingertips pick out the fluff, and the hands go twisting into the sack between your legs

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sack

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Cambodia

The principal temple, Angkor Wat, was built between 1112 and 1150 by Suryavarman II. With walls nearly one-half mile on each side, Angkor Wat portrays the Hindu cosmology with the central towers representing Mount Meru, home of the gods; the outer walls, the mountains enclosing the world; and the moat, the oceans beyond.Angkor Thom, the capital city built after the Cham sack of 1177, is surrounded by a 300-foot wide moat. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats and snails, They all were good, for all were males. But when the Devil came and saw He said: "By Thine eternal law Of growth, maturity, decay, These all must quickly pass away And leave untenanted the earth Unless Thou dost establish birth" -- Then tucked his head beneath his wing To laugh -- he had no sleeve -- the thing With deviltry did so accord, That he'd suggested to the Lord. The Master pondered this advice, Then shook and threw the fateful dice Wherewith all matters here below Are ordered, and observed the throw; Then bent His head in awful state, Confirming the decree of Fate. From every part of earth anew The conscious dust consenting flew, While rivers from their courses rolled To make it plastic for the mould. Enough collected (but no more, For niggard Nature hoards her store) He kneaded it to flexible clay, While Nick unseen threw some away. And then the various forms He cast, Gross organs first and finer last; No one at once evolved, but all By even touches grew and small Degrees advanced, till, shade by shade, To match all living things He'd made Females, complete in all their parts Except (His clay gave out) the hearts. "No matter," Satan cried; "with speed I'll fetch the very hearts they need" -- So flew away and soon brought back The number needed, in a sack. That night earth range with sounds of strife -- Ten million males each had a wife; That night sweet Peace her pinions spread O'er Hell -- ten million devils dead! G.J.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Sack

"Sack" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.72% of the time. "Sack" is used about 1,000 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)78.72%7878,794
Lexical Verb (infinitive)17.58%17623,410
Lexical Verb (base form)3.1%3162,296
Noun (proper)0.4%4175,879
Noun (common)0.2%2245,945
                    Total100.00%1,000N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Sack

The following table summarizes the usage of "sack" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
SackLast name1,0009,190
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Sack

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "sack".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
DamascusN/ABiblical

A sack full of blood

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expressions: Sack

Expressions using "sack": air sack big sack crocus sack croker sack dressing sack get the sack give smb. the sack give the sack grass sack gunny sack hit the sack hold the sack in sack and ashes punching sack put to the sack refuse sack sack bearer sack carousel sack changer sack coat sack dress sack filling machine sack of corn sack out sack posset sack race sack smb. sack tree sack up sad sack To give the sack To give the sack to to hit the sack yolk sack. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "sack": sack-addict, sack-artist, sack-artists, sack-cloth, sack-handling, sack-like, sack-load, sack-loads, sack-making, sack-pictures, sack-shaped, sack-shrouded, Sack-winged.

Ending with "sack": comb-sack, gunny-sack, Halter-sack, hiking-sack, sad-sack.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sack

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sack

199

nut sack

21

avenue fifth sack

125

n sack save

21

ann sack

75

fat sack

21

custom sack

59

pack sack

21

sleep sack

56

race sack

21

potato sack

54

gunny sack

20

oliver sack

53

radio sack

19

stuff sack

51

5th ave sack

19

ad sack

40

sack truck

19

ave fifth sack

37

sack lunch

19

bivy sack

35

feed sack

18

ann sack tile

31

paper sack

18

ball sack

30

ann sack tile stone

18

halo sleep sack

27

flour sack towel

18

burlap sack

27

brian sack

17

5th avenue sack

26

sack tay

17

super sack

25

baby sack

16

love sack

24

ruck sack

14

baby sleep sack

23

fifth sack

13

sad sack

23

compression sack

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sack

Language Translations for "sack"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

tas (bag), ontslaan (discharge, dismiss, fire). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

shtrat (bed, berth, bottom, couch, crutch, floor, hotbed, kip, layer, rest), verë e bardhë, thes (bag, poke, receptacle, sacking), plaçkitje (despoilment, despoliation, marauding, mugging, pillage, plunder, ravin, robbery, sacking, spoliation), plaçkit (depredate, despoil, forage, Harry, hijack, loot, maraud, mug, pillage, pirate, plunder, Raven, ravish, Rob), pallto (coat, frock coat, greatcoat, Newmarket, newmarket coat, overcoat, sac), nxjerr nga puna (discard, muster out, quit, remove, send packing, throw out), grabitje (abduction, depredation, despoilment, despoliation, hold up, looting, pillage, piracy, plunder, ransack, rapine, rent, robbery, sacking, spoliation), grabit (amputate, depredate, deprive, despoil, flay, fleece, loot, rabble, ransack, Raven, ravish, reave, reive, rent, rip off, Rob, subtract), fus në thes (bag), çante (bag). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فصل (adjudge, adjudicate, arrive at a resolution, break, break up, cashier, cut, cut off, decide, decision, demarcation, detach, detail, determine, discharge, disconnect, disconnection, disentangle, disjoin, disjunction, dismiss, displace, displacement, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, dissociation, disunite, divide, division, elaborate, expel, fire, have a final word, isolate, isolation, itemize, judge, lay off, make a decision, part, particularize, parting, partition, remove, render a judgement, resolve, seclude, seclusion, segregate, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, settle, sever, severance, sunder, wean), ‏كيس (bag, budget, capsule, courteous, cyst, elegant, encyst, graceful, pocket, polite, pouch, sac), ‏نهب (despoilment, flay, harrow, loot, looting, maraud, milk, pillage, piracy, plunder, raid, ransack, rapine, ravage, rifle, rip off, robbery, sacking, spoil, spoliation, stole, strip), ‏وضع في كيس, ‏سلب (bereave, depredation, desiccation, despoil, dispossess, dispossession, divest, evisceration, flay, fleece, harrow, loot, looting, maraud, milk, pillage, piracy, plunder, plundering, raid, ransack, rape, rapine, ravish, ravishment, rejoice, riffle, rifle, rob, robbery, skin, spoil, spoliation, steal, stick up, strip), ‏سترة فضفاضة (blazer), ‏سرق (convey, crib, crook, filch, hook, lift, misappropriate, mooch, nick, nobble, pick, pinch, plunder, purloin, rip off, rob, sneak, steal, swipe, thieve, walk off with), ‏طرد (banish, banishment, bounce, bouncer, cashier, cast out, chuck, deport, deportation, disgrace, dislodge, dismiss, dismissal, dispossess, dispossession, disqualification, drive out, drum, eject, ejection, eliminate, elimination, evaporate, evict, eviction, expel, expulsion, fence, fight down, get off, hunt, in order of the boot, oust, ouster, pitch, poke, put out, removal, remove, repel, rout, scat, send, send packing, sending away, shake, shrift, sling out, spurn, throw out, toss, toss out, turf, turf out, turn away, turn off, turn out), ‏صرف من الخدمة (awry, bird, discharge, removal), ‏الساك ضرب من الخمر, ‏أقال (discharge, dismiss, remove, send packing). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

уволнявам (boot, cast, discard, discharge, dismiss, dispense, drop, fire, grass, lay off, muster out, release, relieve, remove, retire, send away, separate, shelve, turn away), сак (carryall, grip, kitbag, landing net, vesicle, wallet), слагам в чували, слагам в чувал, рокля сак (sacque), чувал (bag, cul de sac, pocket, poke), торба (bag, bagful, grab-all, pack, pouch, receptacle, swag, wallet), грабя (depredate, despoil, pirate, plunder, ravage, reave, reive, spoil), грабеж (despoilment, despoliation, looting, pillage, plunder, plunderage, rapine, ravin, ravishment, robbery, swag), вид бяло испанско вино, легло (bed, bunk, bye bye, cushion, doss, hay, kip, mounting, pad, pillow block), палто сак (sack coat, sacque), плячкосване (loot, looting, pillage, plunder, rapine, ravishment, rifling), плячкосвам (despoil, loot, pill, pillage, plunder, prey, ravish, rifle, spoil), изхвърлям (bounce, cast aside, cast away, detrude, discharge, dump, ejaculate, eject, excrete, expel, out, project, push out, put out, reject, relegate, shoot out, spew, spill, spirt, spurt, throw, throw out, throw up, thrust forth, tip, turf out, vomit, whop). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(a pouch, bag, pocket), (small bag), (tube for blowing fire), 大袋子 , 大袋, (prisoner). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyhodit (blow, cast out, dart off, eject, fire, fling out, throw, throw out, turf out), vyhazov (walking papers), pytel (bag, sand-bag), propustit (discharge, dismiss, displace, let off, let out, relegate, remove, turn away, turn off, unbend), plenit (loot, plunder), plenìní (spoil), drancovat (ravage), drancování. (various references)

   

Danish

  

taske (bag), afskedige (discharge, dismiss, fire). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zak (bag, bastard, box, container, jug, pocket, son-of-a-bitch, vessel), royeren (discharge, dismiss, fire), ontzetten (alarm, appal, appall, discharge, dismay, dismiss, fire, puzzle), ontslaan (discharge, dismiss, exempt, fire). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

sako (bag), maldungi (discharge, dismiss, fire), eksigi (discharge, dismiss, fire). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

skjátta (bag, briefcase, file), sekkur (bag), taska (bag), pungur (bag, purse, wallet), koyra frá (discharge, dismiss, fire). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

یغما (Booty, Despoliation, Pillage, Plunder, Ravage, Spoil), پیراهن گشادوکوتاه , کیسه (Bag, Bung, Capsule, Cod, Cyst, Pouch, Purse, Sinus), گونی (Gunny, Sacking), غارتگری (Rapacity), جوال (Bag), اخراج کردن یاشدن , شراب سفیدپرالکل وتلخ , درکیسه ریختن , بیغمابردن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

säkki (bag). (various references)

   

French

  

sac (sac, sacking), renvoyer. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

sek (bag), dien jaan (discharge, dismiss, fire). (various references)

   

German

  

Sack (bag, bastard, bursa, pocket, poke, pouch, sac, sackful, sod), entlassen (ax, axe, cashier, demobilize, disband, disbanded, discharge, dismiss, dismissed, expel, fire, free, lay off, let out, muster out, pension off, release, retire, to disband, to dismiss, unburden), plündern (despoil, foray, Harry, loot, looting, maraud, pillage, plunder, prey on, raid, ransack, ravage, rifle, Rob, spoilt, strip, to despoil), Beutel (bag, packet, poke, pouch, purse, sac, sachet, sacs, wallet). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απολύω (disband, discharge, dismiss, dismiss from, fire, release, send away, unbind, uncage, unhand, unleash, unloose). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

çante (bag). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מרצוף, לשדוד (maraud, pillage, plunder), לשסות (loot, pillage, plunder, set on), להפטיר (dismiss, let go, release, say, send away), לבזוז (loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, spoil), שק (bag), שדידה (looting, pillage, plunder, robbery, spoliation), אמתחת (bursitis, pouch, saddlebag), בזיזה (looting, pillage, plunder, robbery, spoliation), צקלון (bag, kitbag), סק. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

zsák (bag, cod, poke, sac). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

taska (bag), poki (bag). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

saku (bag, pocket), karung (bag, bale). (various references)

   

Irish

  

mÚla (bag), bolg (abdomen, bag, belly, tummy). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sacco (a great deal, a lot, bag, budget, punching bag, sac, sackful, sackfuls), licenziare (abrogate, bounce, bump, cashier, deny, discharge, dismiss, furlough, give notice, refuse, shed), borsa (bag, bourse, exchange, fellowship, grant, grip, handbag, pannier, pouch, purse, saddlebag, stock market). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(bag), (bag counter, bale, straw bag). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たわら (bag counter, bale, straw bag), ずだぶくろ (carry-all bag), ひょう (a council, bag counter, bale, ballot, chart, commentary, criticism, hail, label, lean on, leopard, lie heavy, list, panther, recline on, sign, straw bag, table, threat, ticket), ふくろ (bag, return path, return trip), サック . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

자루 공중을 나는 (Sack-winged). (various references)

   

Malay

  

sak (bag), tas (bag), karung (bag). (various references)

   

Manx

  

spooilley (booty, capture, despoil, despoliation, loot, pillage, plunder, plundering, prey, rape, ravage, ravaging, rob, spoil, undo as scheme), cur y bayr da, cragh (booty, capture, depredation, devastation, disaster, doom, foray, havoc, loot, plunder, prey, prize, ravishment, scoop, spoil). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

veske (bag), sekk (bag). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

tas (bag). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acksay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

worek (bag), torba (bag). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

saco (bag, billfold, budget, notecase, sac, vesicle, wallet), despedir (cashier, dismiss, displace, dispose of, drive away, fire, fling, pay off, remove, speed, turn off). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sac (bag, bagful, kit, knapsack, pocket, pod, poke, sac, sackful), sãcoi (big bag), prãda (despoil, flay, fleece, gut, knock off, loot, pillage, plunder, prey, ransack, Raven, reave, Rob, ruin, spoil), comprima (compress, condense, constrain, curb, hold, jam, pack, repress, squash), conţinutul unui sac, concedia (boot, discard, discharge, dismiss, drum out, fire, give notice, pay off, put out, retire, shelve, suspend, turn off), concediere (deposition, discharge, dismissal, ejection), da afarã (boot out, boot round, brush off, cashier, cast up, chuck out, depose, discharge, dismiss, drop, ejaculate, expel, fire, give notice, kick out, order out, oust, pack off, put out, throw out), bluzã (blouse, jumper, pea jacket, shirt, smock, smock frock), devasta (desolate, devastate, forage, foray, gut, havoc, lay waste, play among havoc, play with havoc, ravage, reave, Rob, rummage, wear away), vestã (jacket, jerkin, vest, waistcoat), prãdare (pillage, plunder, plunderage, rapture, spoliation), pune în sac (bag), pune pe liber, pustiire (desolation, devastation), devaliza (loot, rifle, Rob, strip). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ссыпать;грабить мешок;грабеж, уволить (give the gate, give the mitten), свободное женское платье, сак, разграбление (evisceration), койка (berth, bunk, kip, pallet), класть в мешок (bag), грабить (depredate, despoil, loot, pill, pillage, plunder, prey, prey upon, ramp, ransack, ravish, reave, reive, robbing), отдавать на разграбление, насыпать в мешки, мешок (bag, bagful, cul de sac, drawstring, duffel bag, duffle bag, pocket, poke, sac). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

soir (east, the east), sac (a load, a sack, bag), poca (a bag, bag), màla (a bag, bag, bag of a bagpipe, budget), màileid (a bag, bag, budget, wallet). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vrsta belog vina, vreća (bag), torba (bag, poke, pouch, satchel), otpustiti s posla, opljačkati (burglarize, burgle, depredate, despoil, hold up, pillage, pirate, ransack, rifle, rob, scourge, stick up), džak (bag). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

despedir (abrogate, discard, discharge, dismiss, eject, fire, give notice, give off, give out, order off, pay off, release, see out, send off, send out, shoot off, shoot out, stand off, throw, throw off, throw out, turn away), saco (bag, carrier bag, coat, jacket, sac, sackful, sackfuls), bolso (bag, handbag, pocketbook, purse). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

saka (bag, descend, get off, go down). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

mfuko (bag), gunia (bag). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

säck (bag, sac), plundra (depredate, despoil, forage, foray, gut, Harry, loot, pick, pirate, plunder, ransack, rifle, Rob), påse (bag, bagful, pouch), avskeda (can, cashier, discard, discharge, dismiss, displace, fire, play off, remove). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

bag (bag, hand-bag). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เอาใส่ในกระสอบ, กระสอบ (gunny). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

torba (bag, carrierbag, cyst, envelope, plastic bag, pochette, pocket, poke, pouch, vesica). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

halta, ganar. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сак (sac), класти у мішок, націджувати, мішок (bag, cod, purse), мантія (cloak, gown, mantle, pallium, pluvial, toga), лантух (bag, cod), бурдюк (skin), перемогти (draw the winner, fight down, get home, knock out, outclass, overcome, pip, prevail, score off, shoot down, whip, worst). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự cướp phá (foray, pillage), sự cướp giật, bị thải, bị cách chức đuổi. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

sachu (bag), sach, ffetan (bag), bag (bag). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

sabukan (bag). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

isikhwama (bag), isaka (bag). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sack

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

barag. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

coleus, saccelli, sacci, saccino, saccis, sacco, saccorum, saccos, saccum, saccus, siccus. (various references)

Sanskrit300 BCE-Modern

goni. (various references)

Old English450-1100

abrecan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Sack

LanguageDateSourceLuke Chapter 10, Verse 4
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintMh bastazete balantion mh phran mhde upodhmata kai mhdena kata thn odon aspashsqe
Latin405VulgateNolite portare sacculum neque peram neque calciamenta et neminem per viam salutaveritis
Old English990West SaxonNe bere ge sacc. ne codd. ne gescy. ne nanne man be wege ne gretað;
Middle English1395WyclifTherfor nyle ye bere a sachel, nethir scrippe, nethir schoon, and greete ye no man bi the weie.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleBeare noo wallet nether scryppe nor shues and salute noo man by the waye.
Jacobean English1611King JamesCarry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
Victorian English1833WebsterCarry neither purse, nor sack, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
Basic English1964OgdenTake no bag for money or for food, and no shoes; say no word to any man on the way.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Sack

LanguageLuke Chapter 10, Verse 4
CebuanoAyaw kamo pagdalag puyo, o puntil, o mga sapin; ug ayaw kamo paghunong aron sa pakighimamat kang bisan kinsa diha sa dalan.
CroatianNe nosite sa sobom ni kese, ni torbe, ni obuæe. I nikoga putem ne pozdravljajte.
DanishBærer ikke Pung, ikke Taske, ej heller Sko; og hilser ingen på Vejen!
DutchDraagt geen buidel, noch male, noch schoenen; en groet niemand op den weg.
FinnishÄlkää ottako mukaanne rahakukkaroa, älkää laukkua, älkää kenkiä, älkääkä tervehtikö ketään tiellä.
FrenchNe portez ni bourse, ni sac, ni souliers, et ne saluez personne en chemin.
GermanTragt keinen Beutel noch Tasche noch Schuhe und grüßet niemand auf der Straße.
Haitian CreolePa pote ni lajan, ni manje, ni soulye. Pa rete nan di pesonn bonjou nan chemen an.
HungarianNe hordozzatok erszényt, se táskát, se sarut; és az úton senkit ne köszöntsetek.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariJangan membawa dompet atau kantong sedekah, ataupun sepatu. Jangan berhenti di tengah jalan untuk memberi salam kepada seorangpun juga.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaJangan membawa pundi-pundi, atau tempat bekal, atau kasut; dan jangan memberi salam kepada barang seorang pun di jalan.
Italiannon portate borsa, né bisaccia, né sandali e non salutate nessuno lungo la strada.
LatvianNenesiet lîdz nedz naudas maku, nedz somu, nedz kurpes un nevienu ceïâ nesveiciniet!
Manx GaelicNy cur-jee lhieu sporran, ny spagey, ny braagyn: as ny jean-jee cumrail ayns goltaghey dooinney erbee er y raad.
MaoriKaua e mauria he takotoranga moni, kaua he putea, kaua he hu: kaua ano e oha atu ki tetahi ai te huarahi.
NorwegianBær ikke pung, ikke skreppe, ikke sko; gi eder ikke i tale med nogen på veien!
PortugueseNão leveis bolsa, nem alforge, nem alparcas; e a ninguém saudeis pelo caminho.   
RumanianSq nu luayi cu voi nici pungq, nici traistq, nici kncqlyqminte, wi sq nu kntrebayi pe nimeni de sqnqtate pe drum.
RussianоЕ ВЕТЙФЕ ОЙ НЕЫЛБ, ОЙ УХНЩ, ОЙ ПВХЧЙ, Й ОЙЛПЗП ОБ ДПТПЗЕ ОЕ РТЙЧЕФУФЧХКФЕ.
ShuarYurumkasha, kuitcha, sapatcha Júkiirap; shuarjai Jintiá áujmamsatai tusarum wajasairap.
SpanishNo llevéis bolsa, ni alforjas, ni calzado; ni saludéis a nadie por el camino.
SwahiliMsichukue mfuko wa fedha, mkoba, wala viatu; msimsalimu mtu yeyote njiani.
SwedishBären ingen penningpung, ingen ränsel, inga skor, och hälsen icke på någon under vägen.
UmaNeo' ngkeni karepe' doi ba boku ba sapatu' ropasa. Neo' mengkahae mpololitai tauna hi lengko ohea.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sack

Derivations

Words beginning with "sack": sackbut, sackbuts, sackcloth, sackcloths, sacked, sacker, sackers, sackful, sackfuls, sacking, sackings, sacklike, sacks, sacksful. (additional references)

Words ending with "sack": coalsack, cossack, gripsack, gunnysack, haversack, hopsack, knapsack, packsack, ransack, rucksack, woolsack. (additional references)

Words containing "sack": coalsacks, cossacks, gripsacks, gunnysacks, haversacks, hopsacking, hopsackings, hopsacks, knapsacked, knapsacks, packsacks, ransacked, ransacker, ransackers, ransacking, ransacks, rucksacks, woolsacks. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sack" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aacc, ack, Asakku, Ascj, Eacc, Esac, Escc, isac, Isack, sabc, saca, sacb, sacch, sach, saci, sacr, sact, Sacz, sadc, Sadko, Safc, sahk, saik, Sak, sako, salk, sancak, saok, Sashok, sask, sauk, sawk, sca, scc, scek, secca, seccy, Seck, Secka, seeck, Sekka, Sesok, seuck, sicc, sicki, sicko, sicky, sicl, sicu, Sjak, smck, socko, spack, sqc, ssci, sucj, sucky, syak, usaac, zac, zack, zak, zick, Zwack. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sack"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "sack" (pronounced sa"k)
3s a" ksac.
2-a" kaback, attack, back, black, clack, crack, Dak, Flack, flak, hack, Jack, knack, lac, lack, Mac, Mack, Pac, pack, plack, plaque, quack, rack, repack, shack, slack, smack, snack, stack, tack, track, unpack, wack, whack, wrack, yack, Yak.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sack

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cask.

Words within the letters "a-c-k-s"

-1 letter: ask, kas, sac, ska.

-2 letters: as, ka.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-k-s"
 

+1 letter: backs, cakes, calks, carks, casks, casky, hacks, jacks, lacks, macks, packs, racks, sacks, shack, slack, smack, snack, stack, tacks, wacks, yacks.

 

+2 letters: ackees, amucks, blacks, casked, casket, caulks, chalks, charks, clacks, clanks, cloaks, cracks, crakes, cranks, creaks, croaks, flacks, haceks, knacks, kyacks, placks, quacks, sacked, sacker, screak, shacko, shacks, skycap, slacks, smacks, snacks, stacks, thacks, tracks, wackes, wackos, whacks, wracks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Usage Frequency
14. Names: Frequency
15. Names: Derived from
16. Expressions
17. Expressions: Internet
18. Translations: Modern
19. Translations: Ancient
20. Bible Trace
21. Abbreviations
22. Acronyms
23. Derivations
24. Rhymes
25. Anagrams
26. Bibliography


  

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