| 单词 | slack |
| 释义 | slack (once / 510 pages) 1adjnv 2adjnv 3nadj 4n 5n 6v If you slow down at the end of a race, you slack off. When you use slack this way, it means to reduce your speed, to be sluggish, or to be negligent. If something is loose, it's also said to be slack. A clothesline, for example, is slack if it is just hanging loosely between two trees. If you pull the clothesline tight, you reduce the slack. The root word of slack is the Old English word slæc, which means loose or careless. When you scold your friend for being careless about his responsibilities, you can say, "Pick up the slack!" WORD FAMILYslack: slacked, slacken, slacker, slackest, slacking, slackly, slackness, slacks+/slacken: slackened, slackening, slackens/slackening: slackenings/slacker: slackers/slackness: slacknesses USAGE EXAMPLESIn easy times, we grow slack; this will require us each to find our capacity for heroism. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) When geneticist Daniel MacArthur checks into his lab, the first thing he does is fire up Slack, a workplace messaging app. Nature(Dec 28, 2016) In Slack, our internal team communications platform, we discussed language for a news alert, then someone posted an emoji. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1 1adj not tense or taut slack and wrinkled skin slack sails a slack rope Syn loose lax lacking in strength or firmness or resilience 2n the quality of being loose (not taut) Syn|Hyper slackness looseness, play movement or space for movement 3n a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely he took up the slack Hyper cord a line made of twisted fibers or threads 4v release tension on slack the rope Hyper loose, loosen make loose or looser 5v make less active or fast Syn|Hyper relax, slack up, slacken decrease, lessen, minify make smaller 6v make less active or intense Syn|Hyper abate, slake decrease, lessen, minify make smaller 7v become less in amount or intensity Syn|Hyper abate, die away, let up, slack off decrease, diminish, fall, lessen decrease in size, extent, or range 8v become slow or slower 2Syn|Hyper slacken, slow, slow down, slow up weaken become weaker 1adj lacking in rigor or strictness slack in maintaining discipline Syn lax negligent characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern 2n a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality a gradual slack in output Syn|Hyper drop-off, falling off, falloff, slump declension, decline in quality, deterioration, worsening process of changing to an inferior state 3v avoid responsibilities and work, be idle Hyper fiddle, goldbrick, shirk, shrink from avoid (one's assigned duties) 4v be inattentive to, or neglect 3He slacks his attention Hyper neglect fail to attend to 1n a stretch of water without current or movement suddenly they were in a slack and the water was motionless Syn|Hyper slack water stretch a large and unbroken expanse or distance 2adj flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide 4slack water Syn standing (of fluids) not moving or flowing n a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot 5Syn|Hyper mire, morass, quag, quagmire bog, peat bog wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel n dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve 6Hyper debris, detritus, dust, junk, rubble the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up v cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water slack lime Syn|Hypo|Hyper slake air-slake alter by exposure to air with conversion at least in part to a carbonate hydrate cause to be hydrated; add water or moisture to |
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