0 past simple and past participle of tack --
1 to fasten something to a place with tacks --
2 to sew with a long, loose stitch that holds two pieces of material together temporarily, before they are sewn together in a more tidy or permanent way --
3 (of a boat) to turn so that it is at an angle to the direction of the wind and receives the wind on its sails --
I disagree with those who say that if we tacked something on to this building it would ruin it.
At the end of the first year consideration is given to whether the contractor should have a fourth year tacked on to the end.
On the last occasion it was tacked on to the end of a wider debate on defence.
Important matters are tacked on at the end of the day.
At the moment, it is just tacked on at the end.
Much of what he tacked on was thoroughly mischievous.
Such an approach has little, if any, value for the development of social theory in archaeology, because gender issues are simply tacked onto existing, mainly androcentric, paradigms.
Thus, one is forced to deal with the real structure of the problem and not the one tacked on ad hoc by a choice of coordinates.
