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Definition: Sack |
SackNoun1. 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). Verb1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The word sack can refer to:
- In American football, a quarterback sack: the tackling of a quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, before he has had a chance to pass or hand off the ball.
- In the British Commonwealth (except Canada), to be terminated from one's job or workplace – equivalent to being fired in the U.S or Canada. i.e "He was sacked for stealing." or "He was fired for stealing." Also, "got fired", "got sacked", or "got the sack".
- An old name for sherry.
- The deliberate destruction of a city after invasion.
- A large bag, typically made of heavy cloth such as hemp or burlap.
- Any bag, such as a paper sack for a lunch, or a lunch sack instead of a lunch box.
- Slang for testes or scrotum.
- Sleeping - in the phrase "to hit the sack".
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SACK | English | Subordinate acknowledge | Post & Telecom |
| SA | English | Sack | N/A |
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Synonyms: SackSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
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. |
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| "Heart shaped potpourri" by Annie Andre Commentary: "Red see through sack in the shape of a heart filled with lavendar potpourri. ." |
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| Dropping a sack of coins onto a flat surface. | |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Arbuthnot Fisher | Sack the lot! |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. |
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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 |
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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. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 78.72% | 787 | 8,794 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 17.58% | 176 | 23,410 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.1% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.4% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 0.2% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,000 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sack | Last name | 1,000 | 9,190 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "sack". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Damascus | N/A | Biblical | A sack full of blood |
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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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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 | 袋 (a pouch, bag, pocket), 縏 (small bag), 橐 (tube for blowing fire), 大袋子 , 大袋, 囊 (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 | 袋 (bag), 俵 (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | barag. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | coleus, saccelli, sacci, saccino, saccis, sacco, saccorum, saccos, saccum, saccus, siccus. (various references) |
| Sanskrit | 300 BCE-Modern | goni. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | abrecan. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 10, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Mh bastazete balantion mh phran mhde upodhmata kai mhdena kata thn odon aspashsqe |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Nolite portare sacculum neque peram neque calciamenta et neminem per viam salutaveritis |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ne bere ge sacc. ne codd. ne gescy. ne nanne man be wege ne gretað; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Therfor nyle ye bere a sachel, nethir scrippe, nethir schoon, and greete ye no man bi the weie. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Beare noo wallet nether scryppe nor shues and salute noo man by the waye. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Carry neither purse, nor sack, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Take 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. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 10, Verse 4 |
| Cebuano | Ayaw kamo pagdalag puyo, o puntil, o mga sapin; ug ayaw kamo paghunong aron sa pakighimamat kang bisan kinsa diha sa dalan. |
| Croatian | Ne nosite sa sobom ni kese, ni torbe, ni obuæe. I nikoga putem ne pozdravljajte. |
| Danish | Bærer ikke Pung, ikke Taske, ej heller Sko; og hilser ingen på Vejen! |
| Dutch | Draagt geen buidel, noch male, noch schoenen; en groet niemand op den weg. |
| Finnish | Älkää ottako mukaanne rahakukkaroa, älkää laukkua, älkää kenkiä, älkääkä tervehtikö ketään tiellä. |
| French | Ne portez ni bourse, ni sac, ni souliers, et ne saluez personne en chemin. |
| German | Tragt keinen Beutel noch Tasche noch Schuhe und grüßet niemand auf der Straße. |
| Haitian Creole | Pa pote ni lajan, ni manje, ni soulye. Pa rete nan di pesonn bonjou nan chemen an. |
| Hungarian | Ne hordozzatok erszényt, se táskát, se sarut; és az úton senkit ne köszöntsetek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jangan membawa dompet atau kantong sedekah, ataupun sepatu. Jangan berhenti di tengah jalan untuk memberi salam kepada seorangpun juga. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jangan membawa pundi-pundi, atau tempat bekal, atau kasut; dan jangan memberi salam kepada barang seorang pun di jalan. |
| Italian | non portate borsa, né bisaccia, né sandali e non salutate nessuno lungo la strada. |
| Latvian | Nenesiet lîdz nedz naudas maku, nedz somu, nedz kurpes un nevienu ceïâ nesveiciniet! |
| Manx Gaelic | Ny cur-jee lhieu sporran, ny spagey, ny braagyn: as ny jean-jee cumrail ayns goltaghey dooinney erbee er y raad. |
| Maori | Kaua e mauria he takotoranga moni, kaua he putea, kaua he hu: kaua ano e oha atu ki tetahi ai te huarahi. |
| Norwegian | Bær ikke pung, ikke skreppe, ikke sko; gi eder ikke i tale med nogen på veien! |
| Portuguese | Não leveis bolsa, nem alforge, nem alparcas; e a ninguém saudeis pelo caminho. |
| Rumanian | Sq nu luayi cu voi nici pungq, nici traistq, nici kncqlyqminte, wi sq nu kntrebayi pe nimeni de sqnqtate pe drum. |
| Russian | оЕ ВЕТЙФЕ ОЙ НЕЫЛБ, ОЙ УХНЩ, ОЙ ПВХЧЙ, Й ОЙЛПЗП ОБ ДПТПЗЕ ОЕ РТЙЧЕФУФЧХКФЕ. |
| Shuar | Yurumkasha, kuitcha, sapatcha Júkiirap; shuarjai Jintiá áujmamsatai tusarum wajasairap. |
| Spanish | No llevéis bolsa, ni alforjas, ni calzado; ni saludéis a nadie por el camino. |
| Swahili | Msichukue mfuko wa fedha, mkoba, wala viatu; msimsalimu mtu yeyote njiani. |
| Swedish | Bären ingen penningpung, ingen ränsel, inga skor, och hälsen icke på någon under vägen. |
| Uma | Neo' 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. | |
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sack" (pronounced sa"k) |
| 3 | s a" k | sac. |
| 2 | -a" k | aback, 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. | ||
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. | |
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