Tack may refer to:

People

Given name or nickname

Tacks Latimer Clifford Wesley "Tacks" Latimer (November 30, 1875 – April 24, 1936) was an American professional baseball catcher who played in Major League Baseball for the New York Giants (NL), New York Giants, Louisville Colonels, Pittsburgh Pirates, ...

(1875–1936), American baseball catcher * Tacks Neuer (1877–1966), American baseball pitcher * Tack Wilson (born 1955), American baseball outfielder *

Wong Tack Wong Tack ( zh, s=黄德, t=黃德, poj=N̂g Tek, j=Wong4 Dak1, p=Huáng Dé; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ''Vòng Tet'') is a Malaysian politician and environmentalist who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bentong from May 2018 to November 2022 ...

(born 1959), Malaysian politician * Irwin "Tack" Kuntz (), American pharmaceutical chemist

Surname

* François Tack (–1686), Dutch East India Company officer *

Augustus Vincent Tack Augustus Vincent Tack (1870–1949) was an American painter of portraits, landscapes and abstractions. Early years Tack was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and moved with his family to New York in 1883. After graduating from St. Francis Xavier ...

(1870–1949), American painter * Anita Tack (born 1951), German politician of the Left Party * Erik Tack (born 1958), Belgian politician * Kerstin Tack (born 1968), German politician of the Social Democratic Party

Implements, and creative or constructive tasks and materials

Tack (sewing) In sewing, to tack or baste is to sew quick, temporary stitches that will later be removed. Tacking is used for a variety of reasons, such as holding a seam in place until it is sewn properly, or transferring pattern markings onto the garment. Tac ...

(also ''baste'' or ''pin''), quick, temporary stitching intended to be removed *

Blu Tack Blu Tack is a reusable putty-like pressure-sensitive adhesive produced by Bostik, commonly used to attach lightweight objects (such as posters or sheets of paper) to walls, doors or other dry surfaces. Traditionally blue, it is also avai ...

, a reusable putty-like pressure-sensitive adhesive used for attaching paper items to walls *

Horse tack Tack is equipment or accessories equipped on horses and other equines in the course of their use as domestication of the horse, domesticated animals. This equipment includes such items as Saddle, saddles, Stirrup, stirrups, Bridle, bridles, Halter, ...

, equipment used to allow riding or driving of horses and some other

riding animal A working animal is an animal, usually domestication, domesticated, that is kept by humans and trained to perform tasks. Some are used for their physical strength (e.g. oxen and draft horses) or for transportation (e.g. riding horses and camels ...

s *

Thumbtack A drawing pin (in British English) or thumb tack (in North American English), also called a push-pin, is a short, small pin or nail with a flat, broad head that can be pressed into place with pressure from the thumb, often used for hanging ...

or ''drawing pin'', a short

nail Nail or Nails may refer to: In biology * Nail (anatomy), toughened protective protein-keratin (known as alpha-keratin, also found in hair) at the end of an animal or human digit, such as fingernail * Nail (beak), a plate of hard horny tissue a ...

or pin easily placed and removed by hand * Shoe tack, a type of cut nail, used in upholstery, shoe making and saddle manufacture * Tack weld, a specific short and often temporary type of weld * Upholstery tack or furniture tack, a type of short

robust Robustness is the property of being strong and healthy in constitution. When it is transposed into a system, it refers to the ability of tolerating perturbations that might affect the system's functional body. In the same line ''robustness'' can ...

and resistant than the

drawing pin A drawing pin (in British English) or thumb tack (in North American English), also called a push-pin, is a short, small pin or nail with a flat, broad head that can be pressed into place with pressure from the thumb, often used for hanging ...

Sailing

* A tack as a part of the tacking maneuver; in which a sailing boat turns its bow through the wind *

Tack (sailing) A tack is the windward side of a sailing craft (side from which the wind is coming while under way)—the starboard or port tack. Generally, a craft is on a starboard tack if the wind is coming over the starboard (right) side with sails on port ...

, the lower corner of a sail's leading edge *

Tack (square sail) The tack of a square-rigged sail is a line attached to its lower corner. This is in contrast to the more common fore-and-aft sail, whose tack is a part of the sail itself, the corner which is (possibly semi-permanently) secured to the vessel. Most ...

, a type of rigging unique to square sails

Other uses

Hardtack Hardtack (or hard tack) is a type of dense Cracker (food), cracker made from flour, water, and sometimes salt. Hardtack is inexpensive and long-lasting. It is used for sustenance in the absence of perishable foods, commonly during long sea voyage ...

, a hard cracker or biscuit used for food on sea voyages and by soldiers during the American Civil War. * Scottish lease, as held by a

tacksman A tacksman (, meaning "supporting man"; most common Scots spelling: ''takisman'') was a landholder of intermediate legal and social status in Scottish Highland society. Tenant and landlord Although a tacksman generally paid a yearly rent for th ...

* Tack, another name for stickiness in chemistry * The Tack, a parliamentary maneuver supported by

Tackers Tackers was the name given to High Tory Members of Parliament who in 1704 tried to attach ('tack') an Occasional Conformity Act 1711, Occasional Conformity Bill to money bills in order to pass it through the House of Lords and into law. The Tacker ...

in 1704 * The

grand tack hypothesis In planetary astronomy, the grand tack hypothesis proposes that Jupiter formed at a distance of 3.5 AU from the Sun, then migrated inward to 1.5 AU, before reversing course due to capturing Saturn in an orbital resonance, eventually halting near ...

on the origin of the structure of the Solar System * "

TACK Thermoproteati is a kingdom of archaea. Its synonym, "TACK", is an acronym for Thaumarchaeota (now Nitrososphaerota), Aigarchaeota, Crenarchaeota (now Thermoproteota), and Korarchaeota (now Thermoproteota), the first groups discovered. They ...

", a proposed

archaeal Archaea ( ) is a domain of organisms. Traditionally, Archaea only included its prokaryotic members, but this has since been found to be paraphyletic, as eukaryotes are known to have evolved from archaea. Even though the domain Archaea cladis ...

taxon, presumably a sister taxon of hypothetical "Asgard" taxon within the "Proteoarchaeota" kingdom; now renamed to Thermoproteati * TACK, a proposed network security standard co-created by

Moxie Marlinspike Moxie Marlinspike is an American entrepreneur, cryptographer, and computer security researcher. Marlinspike is the creator of Signal (messaging app), Signal, co-founder of the Signal Technology Foundation, and served as the first CEO of Signal M ...

* Any of the four symbols **

right tack Right Tack (1966–1985) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from June 1968 to October 1969, he ran twelve times, winning eight races and finishing second three times. As a two-year-o ...

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up tack "Up tack" is the Unicode name for a symbol (⊥, \bot in LaTeX, U+22A5 in Unicode) that is also called "bottom", "falsum", "absurdum", or "the absurdity symbol", depending on context. It is used to represent: * The truth value 'false', or a logi ...

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