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TACK TOGETHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tack together mean? 

TACK TOGETHER (verb)
  The verb TACK TOGETHER has 1 sense:

1. create by putting components or members togetherplay

  Familiarity information: TACK TOGETHER used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TACK TOGETHER (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Create by putting components or members together

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

assemble; piece; put together; set up; tack; tack together

Context example:

They set up a committee

Hypernyms (to "tack together" is one way to...):

join (cause to become joined or linked)

create; make (make or cause to be or to become)

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

comfit; confect; confection (make into a confection)

confuse; jumble; mix up (assemble without order or sense)

reassemble (assemble once again, after taking something apart)

configure (set up for a particular purpose)

compound (create by mixing or combining)

rig up (erect or construct, especially as a temporary measure)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something


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