Slackname

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  A surname.

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  A place in England:

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  A place in England:

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  A place in England:

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  computingengineeringmathematicsA real-time collaboration app and platform launched in 2013.

  • On Slack, the employees of Strategic Programming chattered about metadata tagging issues.

slacknoun詞源 1/slæk/

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  The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.

  • the slack of a rope or of a sail
  • take in the slack
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  A dip in a surface.

  • Richardson states that a low joint, a short distance from Haslam's Creek Bridge, was, in his opinion, the cause of the accident. […] [He] told Morgan, the Permanent Way Inspector, that there was a "slack" in the road on the Parramatta side of Haslam's Creek Bridge, […] I can positively state […] There was no such slack. The road was in as good running condition as I would wish to see any road. On all lines of course there are slacks, but not slacks of a serious nature; and that there was any such slack or depression in the rails as spoken of by Richardson I positively deny.
  • […] a road may be kept up to approximately the same level at all times, and a fair surface maintained by rolling in large patches occasionally, as well as opening slacks in the road when they appear and effecting petty repairs. […] a series of slacks will begin to show in the run of the wheels; or […]
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  In particular, a shallow dell or hollow; a dip in the surface of terrain, such as between hills.

  • Cauldstane Slap, or rather Slack, is a much frequented pass, through which the periodical droves of black cattle are transported into England.
  • ... for they had at that time observed the side of the brae, where the little green slack was situated, covered with a sheet of flame for a moment.
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  A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains.

  • The "slacks" I have mentioned are fresh-water pools which extend just inside the outer sandhills. Being mostly dry in summer, the shore fowl love to breed there. Peewits nest on their banks, and the long grasses and sand willow[…]
  • ... in that quarter lay the great slack of the Watch Hill, the yellow slack that feeds the Blackburn, and in which horse and rider might readily disappear for ever.
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  Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.

  • The counselor is directed to give his client "free attention," or "slack," performing a kind of vigil, a version of Carl Rogers's "unconditional positive regard."
  • We have apparently been doing this all our lives, since we were first distressed. This collection of ancient habits seems to be "energized" by the presence, or even the promise, of "slack" or free attention from any person in the situation […]

slackadj詞源 1/slæk/

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  Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.

  • a slack rope
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  Weak; not holding fast.

  • a slack hand
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  Moderate in some capacity.

  • a slack oven
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  Moderate in some capacity.

  • a slack wind
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  Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.

  • slack in duty or service
  • The Lord is not ſlacke cõcerning his promiſe (as ſome men count ſlackneſſe)[…].
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  Not active or busy, successful, or violent.

  • Business is slack.
  • the slack period following the main tourist season
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  Excess; surplus to requirements.

  • the slack capacity of an oil pipeline
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  slangVulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.

slackadv詞源 1/slæk/

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  Slackly.

  • slack dried hops
  • Her clothes hung slack on her.

slackverb詞源 2/slæk/

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  To slacken.

  • I maruell I heare no nevves of Dromio, either hee ſlackes the matter, or betrayes his maiſter, I dare not motion anie thing to Stellio, till I knovve vvhat my boy hath don; Ile hunt him out, if the loiterſacke be gone ſpringing into a tauerne, Ile fetch him reeling out.
  • In this business of growing rich, poor men […] should slack their pace.
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  obsoleteTo mitigate; to reduce the strength of.

  • Ne did ſhe let dull ſleepe once to relent, / Nor wearineſſe to ſlack her haſt, but fled / Euer alike,[…].
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  To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.

  • Lime slacks.
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  To refuse to work as hard as one is supposed to.

  • I can't afford to slack. This job is all I have!

slacknoun詞源 3/slæk/

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  rail-transportrailwaystransportA temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.

  • This pitfall, beginning in February and finishing in May, resulted in a drop of about 3 ft. in the platform level; during this period it was necessary to level the track three times weekly, and impose a service slack of 15 m.p.h. The subsidence appears now to have finished, and normal speed is once again permitted.
  • The train runs slowly with frequent slacks for bridge and culvert repairs. At one point occurs the changeover from left- to right-hand running.

slacknoun詞源 4/slæk/

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  A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.

  • Red Ringan sped, and the spearmen led, Up Goranberry Slack; Aye, many a wight, unmatched in fight, Who never more came back. And bloody set the westering sun, And bloody rose he up; […]
  • "I see some folk coming through the slack yonder, […]"
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  A flat-bottomed, hollow zone within a sand-dune system that has developed over impervious strata, sometimes due to erosion or blow-out of the dune system; its flat base level is therefore close to or at the permanent water-table level, and therefore has rich, marshy flora, with Salix species (willows) as typical woody colonisers.

slacknoun詞源 5/slæk/

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  businessminingSmall coal; coal dust.

  • One of the important improvements of recent years has been attained by mixing the peat pulp as it passes through the grinding machine, with other inflammable materials, such as bituminous coal dust, or slack […]
  • It had rather a woolly and uneven beat and was inclined to prime, but there was no trouble with steaming even though the tender contained mostly small slack and dust.

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