SACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sack mean? 

• SACK (noun)
  The noun SACK has 9 senses:

1. a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

2. an enclosed space

3. the quantity contained in a sack

4. any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)

5. a woman's full loose hiplength jacket

6. a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily

7. a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist

8. the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter

9. the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

  Familiarity information: SACK used as a noun is familiar.

• SACK (verb)
  The verb SACK has 4 senses:

1. plunder (a town) after capture

2. terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

3. make as a net profit

4. put in a sack

  Familiarity information: SACK used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

carrier bag; paper bag; poke; sack

Hypernyms ("sack" is a kind of...):

bag (a flexible container with a single opening)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sack"):

doggie bag; doggy bag (a bag for food that a customer did not eat at a restaurant; the transparent pretense is that the food is taken home to feed the customer's dog)

grocery bag (a sack for holding customer's groceries)

Derivation:

sack (put in a sack)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An enclosed space

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

pocket; pouch; sac; sack

Context example:

the trapped miners found a pocket of air

Hypernyms ("sack" is a kind of...):

cavity; enclosed space (space that is surrounded by something)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quantity contained in a sack

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

sack; sackful

Hypernyms ("sack" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

Derivation:

sack (put in a sack)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("sack" is a kind of...):

white wine (pale yellowish wine made from white grapes or red grapes with skins removed before fermentation)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A woman's full loose hiplength jacket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

sack; sacque

Hypernyms ("sack" is a kind of...):

jacket (a short coat)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hammock; sack

Hypernyms ("sack" is a kind of...):

bed (a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep)

Sense 7

Meaning:

A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chemise; sack; shift

Hypernyms ("sack" is a kind of...):

dress; frock (a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice)

Sense 8

Meaning:

The plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the sack of Rome

Hypernyms ("sack" is a kind of...):

pillage; pillaging; plundering (the act of stealing valuable things from a place)

Derivation:

sack (plunder (a town) after capture)

Sense 9

Meaning:

The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

discharge; dismissal; dismission; firing; liberation; release; sack; sacking

Hypernyms ("sack" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sack"):

superannuation (the act of discharging someone because of age (especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension))

conge; congee (an abrupt and unceremonious dismissal)

removal (dismissal from office)

deactivation; inactivation (breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges))

honorable discharge (a discharge from the armed forces with a commendable record)

dishonorable discharge (a discharge from the armed forces for a grave offense (as sabotage or espionage or cowardice or murder))

Section Eight (a discharge from the US Army based on unfitness or character traits deemed undesirable)

Derivation:

sack (terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position)

• SACK (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plunder (a town) after capture

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

plunder; sack

Context example:

the barbarians sacked Rome

Hypernyms (to "sack" is one way to...):

take (take by force)

"Sack" entails doing...:

destroy; ruin (destroy completely; damage irreparably)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

sack (the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

can; dismiss; displace; fire; force out; give notice; give the axe; give the sack; sack; send away; terminate

Context example:

The company terminated 25% of its workers

Hypernyms (to "sack" is one way to...):

remove (remove from a position or an office)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sack"):

retire (make (someone) retire)

pension off (let go from employment with an attractive pension)

clean out (force out)

furlough; lay off (dismiss, usually for economic reasons)

squeeze out (force out)

dismiss; drop; send away; send packing (stop associating with)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Derivation:

sack; sacking (the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make as a net profit

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

clear; net; sack; sack up

Context example:

The company cleared $1 million

Hypernyms (to "sack" is one way to...):

benefit; gain; profit (derive a benefit from)

Verb group:

bring in; clear; earn; gain; make; pull in; realise; realize; take in (earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages)

clear; net (yield as a net profit)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Put in a sack

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The grocer sacked the onions

Hypernyms (to "sack" is one way to...):

case; encase; incase (enclose in, or as if in, a case)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Also:

sack up (make as a net profit)

Derivation:

sack (a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases)

sack (the quantity contained in a sack)

 Context examples 

But he did linger, debating, over a squat moose-hide sack.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

So the student let him down, opened the sack, and set him free.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He sends us a sack every year; and certainly there never was such a keeping apple anywhere as one of his trees—I believe there is two of them.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Go below and fill a sack with coal.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It meant more gold in the money sack.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I had it at the sacking of Issodun, and the King himself hath not such a bed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It went faster and faster, and the shorter his money-sack grew, the shorter grew his temper.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

All solar eclipses have the strength of three normal new moons packed into one, but this one is like Santa’s sack—filled with gifts for you (and some are financial).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A few grains of cattle feed obtained from a feed sack.

(Biospecimen, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Its head was a small sack stuffed with straw, with eyes, nose, and mouth painted on it to represent a face.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)