Object

• duel: Stephen Broom led for much of one of his races but lost it on the final beat in a tacking duel to second place.

Converse of object

• weld: A quick check with the engineer's square & everything was tack welded together.

• change: To save his client from the gallows, Mr Gordon's defense counsel changed tack by calling evidence to show he was insane.

• try: Trying a different tack she said, " Johnny, give me a sentence with the pronoun, " I " in it.

Adjective modifier

• starboard: Now on starboard tack going across 191 across Swanage Bay.

• opposite: On a similar, but opposite, tack we only conceded more than one goal on a club record six occasions.

• blue: The blue tack is used to stick the clip to the lamp rim.

• port: The weather had by then got much worse and she was kept hauled to the wind on the port tack.

• different: A somewhat different tack from the usual Making Time CD review.

Modifies a noun

• cleaning: The younger girls first: tack cleaning; mucking out; skipping out the front paddocks.

• cloth: You now have a cheap but good quality tack cloth.

• theft: Horse tack thefts yet again There have been a number of horse tack thefts in the area.

• room: I followed him down the dimly lit path to the warm glow of the tack room.

• coat: Finally where appropriate, a tack coat is applied that gives a good bond to the tarmac that will be laid immediately above it.

Noun used with modifier

• blu: In 1997/8 a miniature stormtrooper graced the ceiling, hanging upside down with feet encased in a lump of blu tack.

• brass: Lets get down to brass tacks; to get in to the place you have 2 options.

• thumb: I wasn't so much cutting as scratching I started with a thumb tack and moved to safety pins.

• leather: It can be used to security mark any quantity of leather tack or harness.

• port: He still reached the mark ahead of Val who had taken an early port tack inshore.

• carpet: The Archbishop of Canterbury using a metal detector to locate a carpet tack stuck to a horse.