What does slack mean?we found 17 entries for the meaning of slack
 

slack



1. Internal fragmentation. Space allocated to a disk file but not actually used to store useful information.

2. In the theology of the Church of the SubGenius, a mystical substance or quality that is the prerequisite of all human happiness.

Since Unix files are stored compactly, except for the unavoidable wastage in the last block or fragment, it might be said that "Unix has no slack".

See ha ha only serious.

[Jargon File]

(1995-03-01)

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
 

 

Slack \Slack\, n. [Cf. Slag.]

Small coal; also, coal dust; culm. --Raymond. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

Slack \Slack\, n. [Icel. slakki a slope on a mountain edge.]

A valley, or small, shallow dell. [Prov. Eng.]

--Grose. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

Slack \Slack\, a. [Compar. Slacker; superl. Slackest.]

[OE. slak, AS. sleac; akin to OS. slak, OHG. slah, Prov. G. schlack, Icel. slakr, Sw. slak; cf. Skr. s[.r]j to let loose, to throw. Cf. Slake.]

Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope. [1913 Webster]

2. Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

3. Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service. [1913 Webster]

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness. --2 Pet. iii. 9. [1913 Webster]

4. Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack. "With slack pace." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

C?sar . . . about sunset, hoisting sail with a slack southwest, at midnight was becalmed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Slack in stays (Naut.), slow in going about, as a ship.

Slack water, the time when the tide runs slowly, or the water is at rest; or the interval between the flux and reflux of the tide.

Slack-water navigation, navigation in a stream the depth of which has been increased, and the current diminished, by a dam or dams. [1913 Webster]

Syn: Loose; relaxed; weak; remiss; backward; abated; diminished; inactive; slow; tardy; dull. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

Slack \Slack\, Slacken \Slack"en\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slacked, Slackened; p. pr. & vb. n. Slacking, Slackening.]

[See Slack, a.]

1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather. [1913 Webster]

2. To be remiss or backward; to be negligent. [1913 Webster]

3. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks. [1913 Webster]

4. To abate; to become less violent. [1913 Webster]

Whence these raging fires Will slacken, if his breath stir not their flames. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

5. To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens. [1913 Webster]

6. To languish; to fail; to flag. [1913 Webster]

7. To end; to cease; to desist; to slake. [Obs.]

[1913 Webster]

That through your death your lineage should slack. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

They will not of that firste purpose slack. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Slack

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

Slack \Slack\, Slacken \Slack"en\, v. t.

1. To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage. --Wycklif (Acts xxvii. 40) [1913 Webster]

2. To neglect; to be remiss in. [Obs.]

--Shak. [1913 Webster]

Slack not the pressage. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

3. To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime. [1913 Webster]

4. To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry. "Rancor for to slack." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

I should be grieved, young prince, to think my presence Unbent your thoughts, and slackened 'em to arms. --Addison. [1913 Webster]

In this business of growing rich, poor men should slack their pace. --South. [1913 Webster]

With such delay Well plased, they slack their course. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

5. To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease. [1913 Webster]

To respite, or deceive, or slack thy pain Of this ill mansion. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Air-slacked lime, lime slacked by exposure to the air, in consequence of the absorption of carton dioxide and water, by which it is converted into carbonate of lime and hydrate of lime. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

Slack \Slack\, adv. Slackly; as, slack dried hops. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

Slack \Slack\, n. The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail. [1913 Webster] Slack

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

440 Moby Thesaurus words for "slack": Laodicean, Micawberish, Olympian, Paphian, abandon, abate, abatement, abeyant, aloof, ambling, anemic, apathetic, asthenic, backward, bagging, baggy, bate, beat-up, bedraggled, behindhand, benumbed, blah, blase, bloodless, blow out, blowzy, bone-lazy, bones, cadging, careless, cataleptic, catatonic, cautious, chaff, chambering, chicken, chintzy, choke, circumspect, claudicant, coal dust, comatose, comb, coom, cowardly, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, culm, culpably negligent, cut, dallying, damp, dangling, dead, deadwood, debilitated, decline, decrease, delay, delaying, deliberate, delinquent, derelict, desensitized, detached, diffuse, dilapidated, dilatory, dillydallying, diminish, diminution, dishwater, disinterested, disjoin, disperse, disregardful, do-nothing, dodge, dog it, doless, dopey, dormant, douse, down, downturn, drabbletailed, draff, draggled, draggletailed, dregs, dronish, drony, drooping, droopy, duck, duck duty, dull, dust, dwindling, ease, ease off, ease up, easy, easygoing, effete, ergophobic, etiolated, extinguish, faineant, faint, faintish, faltering, feeble, filings, flabby, flaccid, flagging, flapping, flat, floppy, foot-dragging, foul, free, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, garbage, gash, gentle, get out of, give, goldbrick, gone, good-for-nothing, goof off, gradual, groggy, grubby, gutless, halting, hanging, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, hobbling, hogwash, hopeless, husks, idle, imbecile, impotent, imprecise, in a stupor, in abeyance, in rags, in suspense, inactive, inactivity, inadvertent, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, inert, infirm, informal, insouciant, jump, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, laissez-faire, languid, languorous, latent, lax, lazy, leaden, leave, leave loose ends, leave undone, leavings, lees, leisurely, lenient, lessening, let alone, let be, let dangle, let down, let go, let loose, let up, let up on, lethargic, lifeless, light, limber, limp, limping, lingering, listless, logy, loitering, loose, loose-moraled, loosen, looseness, lull, lumbering, lumpen, lustless, malinger, marrowless, messy, miss, mitigate, moderate, mussy, neglect, neglectful, neglecting, negligent, nerveless, nonaggressive, nonchalant, noninterfering, nonrestrictive, not pull fair, numb, numbed, of easy virtue, of loose morals, off, off-guard, offal, offscourings, omit, orts, otiose, out, overindulgent, overly permissive, overpermissive, parasitic, parings, pass over, pass up, passive, pause, permissive, phlegmatic, pithless, play, pluckless, poking, poky, pooped, potsherds, powerless, pretermit, procrastinate, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, promiscuous, put out, quench, ragged, raggedy, rags, raspings, reduction, refuse, regardless, relax, relaxed, release, reluctant, remiss, remit, resigned, rickety, room, rubbery, ruinous, sagging, sapless, sauntering, scamping, scatter, scourings, scraggly, scrap iron, scraps, scrounging, scum, sedentary, seedy, shabby, shaky, shards, shavings, shiftless, shirk, shoddy, shuffling, sinewless, skimping, skip, skulk, slack off, slack up, slacken, slackening, slackness, slag, slake, slatternly, sleeping, slide out of, slighting, slip out of, slipshod, slop, sloppy, slops, slothful, slovenly, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow down, slow up, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, slow-up, sluggish, slumbering, slurring, sluttish, smoldering, smother, snail-paced, snaillike, sneak out of, snuff, snuff out, soft, soldier, soporific, sordid, spineless, spiritless, sponging, spunkless, squalid, staggering, stagnant, stamp out, standing, static, stifle, stoic, streaming, strengthless, strolling, stubble, stupefied, supine, suspended, sweepings, swill, tacky, tame, tares, tattered, tentative, tire, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trifle, trudging, turtlelike, unaroused, unbend, unbrace, uncaring, uncircumspect, unconcerned, unenterprising, unglue, unguarded, unhardened, unhurried, uninterested, unkempt, unlax, unleash, unneat, unnerved, unrestrained, unrigorous, unsightly, unsteady, unstick, unstrain, unstring, unstrung, untidy, untighten, unwary, unwatchful, unwind, waddling, wanton, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, wayward, weak, weaken, weakly, weeds, welsh, whorish, withdrawn, work-shy

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

 

slack adj
1: not tense or taut; "the old man's skin hung loose and gray"; "slack and wrinkled skin"; "slack sails"; "a slack rope" [syn: loose]
2: lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know" G.K.Chesterton; "a slack grip" [syn: flaccid, lax, limp]
3: flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide; "slack water"
4: lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline" [syn: lax]

noun

1: dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
2: a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality; "the team went into a slump"; "a gradual slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in quality" [syn: slump, drop-off, falloff, falling off]
3: a stretch of water without current or movement; "suddenly they were in slack water"
4: the condition of being loose (not taut); "he hadn't counted on the slackness of the rope" [syn: slackness]
5: a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely; "he took up the slack"

verb

1: avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
2: be inattentive to, or neglect; "He slacks his attention"
3: release tension on; "slack the rope"
4: make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got tired"; "Don't relax your efforts now" [syn: slacken, slack up, relax]
5: become slow or slower; "Production slowed" [syn: slow, slow down, slow up, slacken]
6: make less active or intense [syn: slake, abate]
7: become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours" [syn: abate, let up, slack off, die away]
8: cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water; "slack lime" [syn: slake]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

 

Slack \Slack\, a. [Compar. Slacker; superl. Slackest.]

[OE. slak, AS. sleac; akin to OS. slak, OHG. slah, Prov. G. schlack, Icel. slakr, Sw. slak; cf. Skr. s[.r]j to let loose, to throw. Cf. Slake.]

Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope.

2. Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand. --Milton.

3. Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness. --2 Pet. iii. 9.

4. Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack. ``With slack pace.'' --Chaucer.

C?sar . . . about sunset, hoisting sail with a slack southwest, at midnight was becalmed. --Milton.

Slack in stays (Naut.), slow in going about, as a ship.

Slack water, the time when the tide runs slowly, or the water is at rest; or the interval between the flux and reflux of the tide.

Slack-water navigation, navigation in a stream the depth of which has been increased, and the current diminished, by a dam or dams.

Syn: Loose; relaxed; weak; remiss; backward; abated; diminished; inactive; slow; tardy; dull.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Slack \Slack\, n. [Cf. Slag.]

Small coal; also, coal dust; culm. --Raymond.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Slack \Slack\, n. [Icel. slakki a slope on a mountain edge.]

A valley, or small, shallow dell. [Prov. Eng.]

--Grose.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Slack \Slack\, Slacken \Slack"en\, v. t.

1. To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage. --Wycklif (Acts xxvii. 40)

2. To neglect; to be remiss in. [Obs.]

--Shak.

Slack not the pressage. --Dryden.

3. To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime.

4. To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry. ``Rancor for to slack.'' --Chaucer.

I should be grieved, young prince, to think my presence Unbent your thoughts, and slackened 'em to arms. --Addison.

In this business of growing rich, poor men should slack their pace. --South.

With such delay Well plased, they slack their course. --Milton.

5. To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.

To respite, or deceive, or slack thy pain Of this ill mansion. --Milton.

Air-slacked lime, lime slacked by exposure to the air, in consequence of the absorption of carton dioxide and water, by which it is converted into carbonate of lime and hydrate of lime.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Slack \Slack\, adv. Slackly; as, slack dried hops.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Slack \Slack\, n. The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Slack \Slack\, Slacken \Slack"en\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slacked, Slackened; p. pr. & vb. n. Slacking, Slackening.]

[See Slack, a.]

1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.

2. To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.

3. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.

4. To abate; to become less violent.

Whence these raging fires Will slacken, if his breath stir not their flames. --Milton.

5. To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens.

6. To languish; to fail; to flag.

7. To end; to cease; to desist; to slake. [Obs.]

That through your death your lineage should slack. --Chaucer.

They will not of that firste purpose slack. --Chaucer.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Search for slack @ Ask Jeeves | Google | MSN | Yahoo

Define slack and 150,000 other words at dictionary.net




About Us | Contact Us | Link to Us | Terms of Use
© Dictionary.net  All Rights Reserved