Sack
noun
A bag made of paper or cloth.
He filled the sack with potatoes.
Often appears as...
- sack of potatoes
- sack of rice
verb
To dismiss someone from their job.
He was sacked due to his poor performance.
Often appears as...
- sack for misconduct
- sack without notice
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
In football, to tackle (an opposing quarterback) behind the line of scrimmage.
The quarterback was sacked four times during the game.
Often appears as...
- sack the quarterback
- sack for loss
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The act of sacking someone from their job.
The news of his sack was unexpected.
Often appears as...
- sudden sack
- without notice sack
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To loot or plunder a captured city or town.
The invaders sacked the city and took everything they could carry.
Often appears as...
- sack the city
- sack and plunder
Usage tips
Disapproving
Historical
noun
A bag made of paper or cloth.
He filled the sack with potatoes.
Often appears as...
- sack of potatoes
- sack of rice
verb
To dismiss someone from their job.
He was sacked due to his poor performance.
Often appears as...
- sack for misconduct
- sack without notice
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
In football, to tackle (an opposing quarterback) behind the line of scrimmage.
The quarterback was sacked four times during the game.
Often appears as...
- sack the quarterback
- sack for loss
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The act of sacking someone from their job.
The news of his sack was unexpected.
Often appears as...
- sudden sack
- without notice sack
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To loot or plunder a captured city or town.
The invaders sacked the city and took everything they could carry.
Often appears as...
- sack the city
- sack and plunder
Usage tips
Disapproving
Historical
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Pro Tip 1/2Material indicator
Sack often refers to a simple, not fancy, durable type of bag.
The groceries came in a sturdy sack.
Pro Tip 2/2Size implications
'Sack' implies a larger bag, typically one that can hold bulk items.
A sack of potatoes is too heavy for one hand.
Pro Tip 1/2Material indicator
Sack often refers to a simple, not fancy, durable type of bag.
The groceries came in a sturdy sack.
Pro Tip 2/2Size implications
'Sack' implies a larger bag, typically one that can hold bulk items.
A sack of potatoes is too heavy for one hand.
Pro Tip 1/2Material indicator
Sack often refers to a simple, not fancy, durable type of bag.
The groceries came in a sturdy sack.
Pro Tip 2/2Size implications
'Sack' implies a larger bag, typically one that can hold bulk items.
A sack of potatoes is too heavy for one hand.
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How whales breathe,...
And so they vibrate that and send it out. Small-toothed whales also have air sacks; they're all over their heads, so it's like they're airheads. They use this to capture as much air as they can to take down with them when they're diving, because when you dive, pressures increase, and that decreases the volume of air you have available. But more importantly,
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The mystery of motion...
Your ear has another important function besides hearing. In its innermost part lies a group of structures known as the vestibular system, which gives us our sense of balance and movement. Inside there are three semicircular tubules that can sense rotation, one for each dimension of space. And there are also two hair-lined sacks filled with fluid.
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Martin Hanczyc: The line...
It can sense its local environment and actually find resources in the environment to sustain itself. Now, this doesn't have a brain, it doesn't have a neural system. This is just a sack of chemicals that is able to have this interesting and complex lifelike behavior. If we count the number of chemicals
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How does a jellyfish...
darting between tentacles without ever touching them. Nudibranchs, which are sea slugs covered in protective slime, can actually steal the jelly's defenses by eating the cnidocytes and transferring them to specialized sacks for later use, as weapons against their own predators.
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How aspirin was...
Soon, aspirin became synonymous with acetylsalicylic acid. As its influence grew, aspirin was found to ease not just pain, but also many inflammation-related problems, like rheumatoid arthritis, pericarditis, which enflames the fluid-filled sack around the heart,
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5 Reasons Ants Are...
their trek is about the length of two football pitches laid end to end and they're not traveling empty-handed each ant carries a lava or a pupa hung below her body the equivalent of us running a marathon while carrying a sack of potatoes
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Should “blackness”...
him with no he handed me a sack with the sack bail life so I reached in hoping for thousands and instead God might not believe money and tissue I was like what is this some kind of joke then a guy sprang up from the backseat and choked
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Ant Nest Made Entirely...
their Trek is about the length of two football pitches laid end to end and they're not travelling empty-handed each ant carries a larva or a pupa hung below her body the equivalent of us running a marathon while carrying a sack
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6 ways mushrooms can...
The last image we don't have. The entire pile was a green berm of life. These are gateway species, vanguard species that open the door for other biological communities. So I invented burlap sacks, bunker spawn --
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Sharks 101 PIPE National...
Sharks may lay eggs, or bear live young. Egg laying sharks only lay a few large eggs. They may come in various forms, such as sacks called mermaid purses or corkscrews.
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How whales breathe,...
And so they vibrate that and send it out. Small-toothed whales also have air sacks; they're all over their heads, so it's like they're airheads. They use this to capture as much air as they can to take down with them when they're diving, because when you dive, pressures increase, and that decreases the volume of air you have available. But more importantly,
Video examples
The mystery of motion...
Your ear has another important function besides hearing. In its innermost part lies a group of structures known as the vestibular system, which gives us our sense of balance and movement. Inside there are three semicircular tubules that can sense rotation, one for each dimension of space. And there are also two hair-lined sacks filled with fluid.
Video examples
Martin Hanczyc: The line...
It can sense its local environment and actually find resources in the environment to sustain itself. Now, this doesn't have a brain, it doesn't have a neural system. This is just a sack of chemicals that is able to have this interesting and complex lifelike behavior. If we count the number of chemicals
Video examples
How does a jellyfish...
darting between tentacles without ever touching them. Nudibranchs, which are sea slugs covered in protective slime, can actually steal the jelly's defenses by eating the cnidocytes and transferring them to specialized sacks for later use, as weapons against their own predators.
Video examples
How aspirin was...
Soon, aspirin became synonymous with acetylsalicylic acid. As its influence grew, aspirin was found to ease not just pain, but also many inflammation-related problems, like rheumatoid arthritis, pericarditis, which enflames the fluid-filled sack around the heart,
Video examples
5 Reasons Ants Are...
their trek is about the length of two football pitches laid end to end and they're not traveling empty-handed each ant carries a lava or a pupa hung below her body the equivalent of us running a marathon while carrying a sack of potatoes
Video examples
Should “blackness”...
him with no he handed me a sack with the sack bail life so I reached in hoping for thousands and instead God might not believe money and tissue I was like what is this some kind of joke then a guy sprang up from the backseat and choked
Video examples
Ant Nest Made Entirely...
their Trek is about the length of two football pitches laid end to end and they're not travelling empty-handed each ant carries a larva or a pupa hung below her body the equivalent of us running a marathon while carrying a sack
Video examples
6 ways mushrooms can...
The last image we don't have. The entire pile was a green berm of life. These are gateway species, vanguard species that open the door for other biological communities. So I invented burlap sacks, bunker spawn --
Video examples
Sharks 101 PIPE National...
Sharks may lay eggs, or bear live young. Egg laying sharks only lay a few large eggs. They may come in various forms, such as sacks called mermaid purses or corkscrews.
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Jen Sincero
American Author
If you hang out with a bunch of sad sacks who think the world sucks and there's no possibility, you'll start to believe that. But if you hang out with people who think everything is possible and actually do the impossible on a regular basis, you will believe that, and you will be able to achieve that.
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Neil Warnock
English Businessman
When you're younger, you worry about the sack and getting abuse and things, but when you get to my age, you become less bothered about those things. It becomes more like a hobby and less like life or death.
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Max Beesley
English Actor
I think that if you've got 5 million people that enjoy drama and invest in characters, you must take the time to not worry about your job and getting sacked and just go for it and hit it again.
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John Sweeney
American Politician
I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.
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Eddie Campbell
Scottish Artist
I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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Nostradamus
French Celebrity
In the city that the wolf enters, enemies will be close by. An alien force will sack a great country. Allies will cross the mountains and the borders.
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Gisele Bundchen
Brazilian Model
I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.
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Charles Forsman
American Author
There is no editor or agent or person with a sack of money that will magically come down and give you motivation to make your thing.
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Sven-Goran Eriksson
Swedish Manager
Before England, I had never been sacked in my life.
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Jason Pierre-Paul
American Athlete
I'm not worried about sacks in the preseason.
Quote examples
Jen Sincero
American Author
If you hang out with a bunch of sad sacks who think the world sucks and there's no possibility, you'll start to believe that. But if you hang out with people who think everything is possible and actually do the impossible on a regular basis, you will believe that, and you will be able to achieve that.
Quote examples
Neil Warnock
English Businessman
When you're younger, you worry about the sack and getting abuse and things, but when you get to my age, you become less bothered about those things. It becomes more like a hobby and less like life or death.
Quote examples
Max Beesley
English Actor
I think that if you've got 5 million people that enjoy drama and invest in characters, you must take the time to not worry about your job and getting sacked and just go for it and hit it again.
Quote examples
John Sweeney
American Politician
I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.
Quote examples
Eddie Campbell
Scottish Artist
I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
Quote examples
Nostradamus
French Celebrity
In the city that the wolf enters, enemies will be close by. An alien force will sack a great country. Allies will cross the mountains and the borders.
Quote examples
Gisele Bundchen
Brazilian Model
I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.
Quote examples
Charles Forsman
American Author
There is no editor or agent or person with a sack of money that will magically come down and give you motivation to make your thing.
Quote examples
Sven-Goran Eriksson
Swedish Manager
Before England, I had never been sacked in my life.
Quote examples
Jason Pierre-Paul
American Athlete
I'm not worried about sacks in the preseason.
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