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sack

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /sæk/
  • Rhymes: -æk
  • Homophones: sac, SAC

Etymology 1

From Middle English sak (bag, sackcloth), from Old English sacc (sack, bag) and sæcc (sackcloth, sacking); both from Proto-West Germanic *sakku, from late Proto-Germanic *sakkuz (sack), borrowed from Latin saccus (large bag), from Ancient Greek ?????? (sákkos, bag of coarse cloth), from Semitic, possibly Phoenician.

Cognate with Dutch zak, German Sack, Swedish säck, Hebrew ????? (?aq, sack, sackcloth), Aramaic ???????, Classical Syriac ????, Ge'ez ?? (?ä?), Akkadian ???????? (saqqu), Egyptian s?g?. Doublet of sac.

?erný and Forbes suggest the word was originally Egyptian, a nominal derivative of s?q (to gather or put together) that also yielded Coptic ??? (sok, sackcloth) and was borrowed into Greek perhaps by way of a Semitic intermediary. However, Vycichl and Hoch reject this idea, noting that such an originally Egyptian word would be expected to yield Hebrew *??? rather than ?????. Instead, they posit that the Coptic and Greek words are both borrowed from Semitic, with the Coptic word perhaps developing via Egyptian s?g?.

Noun

sack (plural sacks)

  1. 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.
  2. 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).
    • The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels. — McElrath.
    • 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. 27, page 202
      Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
  3. (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
    The sack of Rome.
  4. (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
  5. (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. See verb sense4 below.
  6. (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
    He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second.
  7. (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense5 below.
    The boss is gonna give her the sack today.
    He got the sack for being late all the time.
  8. (colloquial, US) Bed; usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
  9. (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.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book IV, chapter vii, Google Books
      Molly, therefore, having dressed herself out in this sack, with a new laced cap, and some other ornaments which Tom had given her, repairs to church with her fan in her hand the very next Sunday.
    • 1780, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 151:
      Her Dress, too, was of the same cast, a thin muslin short sacque and Coat lined throughout with Pink, – a modesty bit – and something of a very short cloak half concealed about half of her old wrinkled Neck […].
    • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 13:
      This lady's interesting figure, on her wedding-day, was attired in a sacque and petticoat of the most expensive brocaded white silk, resembling net-work, enriched with small flowers [] .
  10. (dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
  11. (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
    He got passed the ball, but it hit him in the sack.
Synonyms
  • (bag): bag, tote, poke (obsolete)
  • (booty obtained by pillage): See Thesaurus:booty
  • (informal: dismissal from employment): the axe, pink slip, the boot, the chop, the elbow, one's cards, the old heave-ho
  • (colloquial: bed): hay, rack
  • (vulgar slang: scrotum): See Thesaurus:scrotum
Hyponyms
  • (bag): bindle
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
  • ? Japanese: ??? (sakku)
Translations

Verb

sack (third-person singular simple present sacks, present participle sacking, simple past and past participle sacked)

  1. To put in a sack or sacks.
    Help me sack the groceries.
    • 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Chapter VII,
      The gold was sacked in moose-hide bags, fifty pounds to the bag []
  2. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
  3. To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
    The barbarians sacked Rome.
    • 1898, Homer, translated by Samuel Butler, The Iliad, Book IX,
      It [a lyre] was part of the spoils which he had taken when he sacked the city of Eetion []
  4. (American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
    • 1995, John Crumpacker and Gwen Knapp, "Sack-happy defensive line stuns Dolphins", SFGate.com, November 21,
      On third down, the rejuvenated Rickey Jackson stormed in over All-Pro left tackle Richmond Webb to sack Marino yet again for a 2-yard loss.
  5. (informal) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
    He was sacked last September.
    • 1999, "Russian media mogul dismisses Yeltsin's bid to sack him", CNN.com, March 5,
      [] Boris Berezovsky on Friday dismissed President Boris Yeltsin's move to sack him from his post as executive secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States, []
Synonyms
  • (plunder, pillage): loot, ransack
  • (to remove someone from a job): can, dismiss, fire, lay off, let go, terminate, make redundant, give the axe, give the boot, give (someone) their cards, give the chop, give the elbow, give the old heave-ho, See also: Thesaurus:lay off
  • (slang: to hit in the groin): rack
Derived terms
  • sackable
  • sackage
  • sacker
  • sack out
  • sack up
Translations

Etymology 2

From earlier (wyne) seck from Middle French (vin (wine)) sec (dry), from Latin siccus (dry)

Noun

sack (countable and uncountable, plural sacks)

  1. (dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.
    • Will't please your lordship drink a cup of sack? ...I ne'er drank sack in my life...
    • Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack...let a cup of sack be my poison...Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and drink it?
    • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
      How didst thou 'scape? How cam'st thou hither? swear / by this bottle how thou cam'st hither—I escaped upon / a butt of sack, which the sailors heaved overboard, by / this bottle!
    • The New Sporting Magazine (volume 15, page 23)
      The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.
Derived terms
  • sack-whey
See also
  • claret, hock, tent

Etymology 3

Noun

sack (plural sacks)

  1. Dated form of sac (pouch in a plant or animal).
    • 1938, The Microscope (volumes 1-2, page 56)
      Sometimes fishes are born that have rudimentary yolk sacks. Such young are born prematurely.

Etymology 4

Verb

sack (third-person singular simple present sacks, present participle sacking, simple past and past participle sacked)

  1. Alternative spelling of sac (sacrifice)

Noun

sack (plural sacks)

  1. Alternative spelling of sac (sacrifice)

See also

  • sack on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Sack in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References

  • Forbes, Robert Jacobus (1955) Studies in Ancient Technology, vol. IV, p. 66
  • ?erný, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 149
  • Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, ?ISBN, page 186
  • Hoch, James E. (1994) Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, ?ISBN, page 269

Anagrams

  • ACKs, SKCA, acks, cask

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse sokkr, from Latin soccus (slipper), from Ancient Greek ?????? (súkkhos, a kind of shoe), probably from Phrygian or another language from Asia Minor.

Pronunciation

  • (masc.; str.) IPA(key): /?s?kh?/
    Rhymes: -??k?
  • (masc. def.; str.) IPA(key): /?s?t??h?en/
  • (masc., fem.; wk.) IPA(key): /²s?kh?/
    Rhymes: -??k?

Noun

sack m or f

  1. Sock.

Derived terms

  • tåsack

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strip

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: str?p, IPA(key): /st??p/
  • Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe

Noun

strip (chiefly countable, plural strips)

  1. (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
    The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.
  2. (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
  3. A comic strip.
  4. A landing strip.
  5. A strip steak.
  6. (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
  7. (sport of fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
  8. (Britain, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
  9. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
  10. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)
  11. (television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
Hyponyms
  • (long, thin piece of bacon): rasher
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English str?epan (plunder). Probably related to German Strafe (deprivation, fine, punishment)

Verb

strip (third-person singular simple present strips, present participle stripping, simple past and past participle stripped)

  1. (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
  2. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
    Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
  3. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
    In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.
  4. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
    The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.
    They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing.
    • They stript Joseph out of his coat.
    • 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI
      He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.
    • 2013, Paul Harris, Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession (in The Guardian, 19 January 2013)[4]
      After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the man stripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.
  5. (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
  6. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
    Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.
    The screw is stripped.
  7. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
  8. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
  9. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
  10. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
  11. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
  12. To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
  13. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
  14. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
  15. (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
  16. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
    • 1618, Georege Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo
      when first they stripp'd the Malean promontory
    • Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stript him.
  17. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
  18. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
  19. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
  20. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
Conjugation
Quotations
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:strip.
Synonyms
  • deprive
  • peel
  • uncover
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

strip (plural strips)

  1. The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
    She stood up on the table and did a strip.
  2. (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
    strip poker; strip Scrabble
    • 1980, Victor Miller, Friday the 13th (film)
      We're going to play Strip Monopoly.
    • 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?
      What was going to happen to this cheeky boy, suddenly deprived of his fun-loving mother, and left with his cold father who barely touched him at her funeral? For a long time – a Nazi uniform here, a game of strip billiards there – it looked like the answer was: nothing good.
Derived terms
  • strip poker
Translations
References
  • OED 2nd edition 1989
  • Funk&Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary

Further reading

  • strip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Strip in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • TRIPS, spirt, sprit, stirp, trips

Dutch

Etymology

From English strip.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -?p

Noun

strip m (plural strips, diminutive stripje n)

  1. strip (long thin piece)
  2. comic (a cartoon story)

Synonyms

  • (strip): strook
  • (comic): beeldverhaal

Derived terms

  • striptekenaar

Verb

strip

  1. first-person singular present indicative of strippen
  2. imperative of strippen

Portuguese

Noun

strip m (plural strips)

  1. Abbreviation of striptease.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English strip.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /strîp/

Noun

str?p m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

  1. comic (a cartoon story)

Declension

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