slack

  • 81slack away — To ease off freely • • • Main Entry: ↑slack …

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  • 82slack-fill — «SLAK FIHL», transitive verb. to fill loosely so that there is room for more: »When a manufacturer slack fills his cereal box, he makes a few extra pennies on each sale (Harper s) …

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  • 83slack-off — «SLAK F, OF», noun. Informal. a slowing down; a lessening; letup: »an industry wide slack off exists …

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  • 84slack|age — «SLAK ihj», noun. the amount allowed for the droop or sag of a rope or cable when not fully strained; slack …

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  • 85slack|en|ing — «SLAK uh nihng», noun. the action of making or becoming slack; diminution; lessening:»Zinc demand continues strong, with no indications of immediate slackening (Wall Street Journal) …

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  • 86Slack quenching — Slack quenching. См. Неполная закалка. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) …

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  • 87slack-key — (slăkʹkē ) adj. Of or being a style of Hawaiian popular music played by fingerpicking an acoustic guitar that has been tuned to any of various open chords. * * * …

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  • 88slack off — index subside Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 89slack water — slack′ wa′ter n. 1) oce a period when a body of water is between tides 2) oce water that is free of currents • Etymology: 1760–70 …

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  • 90slack water — n. 1. the period between tides when the water is neither in ebb nor flood 2. any stretch of water having little or no current …

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