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• n  a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together
• n  (nautical) the act of changing tack
• v  fasten with tacks
• v  turn into the wind
• v  create by putting components or members together
• v  sew together loosely, with large stitches
• v  fix to; attach
• v  reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)

• As anti-immigration parties grow in strength in countries like Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, mainstream conservatives are tacking right, arguing that immigrants must be .
• If not, waiters will appreciate you tacking on the 10% yourself.
• With an unstabilized ship, tacking against a heavy sea would increase the roll.

• baste
• basting
• basting stitch
• tack
• wear round
• assemble
• piece
• put together
• set up
• tack together
• append
• tag on
• tack on
• hang on
• interchange
• switch
• alternate
• flip
• flip-flop

• disassemble

News & Articles

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• Does adding exercise to a diet help heavy kids?
  By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Tacking regular exercise on to a diet program for obese kids and teens typically doesn't help them lose any more weight, a new review of past data suggests. "Changing diet, improving diet, reducing calories is enormously important for weight loss both in kids and adults," said Gary Bennett, who studies obesity prevention at Duke University in Durham ...
  June 20, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Joe Girardi in MLB.com
  It was incredible,Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "The good thing is we kept tacking on. They kept coming back as well. Big nights ...... up and down the lineup."
• Ryan Braun in ESPN
  They went through the same thing yesterday and came back. We understood we needed to keep tacking runs on,Braun said. "It's obviously good to get a lead, you know. It kind of takes the crowd out of it a little bit. They're obviously a good...
• Lindsay Tanner in The Age
  We were not particularly happy with (the Commonwealth Bank's) timing and the tacking on of five basis points to the 25 basis points that the Reserve Bank effectively had determined,Mr Tanner told CNBC television on Friday. "We thought that...