slack - Definition, Meaning and Synonyms

Lekhori

Definitions

1
The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
the slack of a rope or of a sail
2
A dip in a surface.
3
A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
This pitfall, beginning in February and finishing in May, resulted in a drop of about 3 ft. in the platform level; during this period it was necessary to level the track three times weekly, and impose a service slack of 15 m.p.h. The subsidence appears now to have finished, and normal speed is once again permitted.
4
A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.
Red Ringan sped, and the spearmen led, Up Goranberry Slack; Aye, many a wight, unmatched in fight, Who never more came back. And bloody set the westering sun, And bloody rose he up; […]
5
Small coal; coal dust.
One of the important improvements of recent years has been attained by mixing the peat pulp as it passes through the grinding machine, with other inflammable materials, such as bituminous coal dust, or slack […]
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culm

adv

1
To slacken.
I maruell I heare no nevves of Dromio, either hee ſlackes the matter, or betrayes his maiſter, I dare not motion anie thing to Stellio, till I knovve vvhat my boy hath don; Ile hunt him out, if the loiterſacke be gone ſpringing into a tauerne, Ile fetch him reeling out.
2
To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.

1
A surname.
2
A place in England:
3
A real-time collaboration app and platform launched in 2013.
On Slack, the employees of Strategic Programming chattered about metadata tagging issues.

Definitions

1
The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
the slack of a rope or of a sail
2
A dip in a surface.
3
A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
This pitfall, beginning in February and finishing in May, resulted in a drop of about 3 ft. in the platform level; during this period it was necessary to level the track three times weekly, and impose a service slack of 15 m.p.h. The subsidence appears now to have finished, and normal speed is once again permitted.
4
A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.
Red Ringan sped, and the spearmen led, Up Goranberry Slack; Aye, many a wight, unmatched in fight, Who never more came back. And bloody set the westering sun, And bloody rose he up; […]
5
Small coal; coal dust.
One of the important improvements of recent years has been attained by mixing the peat pulp as it passes through the grinding machine, with other inflammable materials, such as bituminous coal dust, or slack […]
Similar
culm

adv

1
To slacken.
I maruell I heare no nevves of Dromio, either hee ſlackes the matter, or betrayes his maiſter, I dare not motion anie thing to Stellio, till I knovve vvhat my boy hath don; Ile hunt him out, if the loiterſacke be gone ſpringing into a tauerne, Ile fetch him reeling out.
2
To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.

1
A surname.
2
A place in England:
3
A real-time collaboration app and platform launched in 2013.
On Slack, the employees of Strategic Programming chattered about metadata tagging issues.