Betekenis van tackle In het Nederlands

• 0 to try to deal with something or someone:

  • There are many ways of tackling this problem.

  • I tackled him about his careless work.

• 1 (especially in football or hockey) to try to take the ball from a player in the other team, or (in rugby or American football) to do this by taking hold of the player and making them fall

• 2 (especially in football or hockey) an act of tackling someone

• 3 all the objects needed for a particular activity:

  • fishing tackle

• 4 the male sexual organs

• 5 to catch and knock down someone who is running, esp. in the game of football:

  • All four players were unable to tackle the quarterback before he scored a touchdown.

• 6 to attack or to deal with something:

  • There are many ways of tackling this problem.

• 7 the equipment used in fishing or to lift or raise things on a ship

• 8 an act of knocking someone down, or a football player who is supposed to do this:

  • A flying tackle brought him down.

  • He’s an offensive/defensive tackle.

• 9 to try to deal with something:

  • The first thing the new government must do is to tackle inflation.

  • tackle a crisis/question/problem

  • I felt that the whole subject was too sensitive to tackle.

• 10 to talk to someone about a difficult situation, usually because you disagree with them:

  • tackle sb on/about sth I was determined to tackle my boss on the way I had been treated.