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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 together
Familiarity information: TACK TOGETHER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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