sac
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Definition of sac
12 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
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noun
- A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
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(informal, transitive)A sacrifice.
“Kasparov's queen sac early in the game gained him a positional advantage against Kramnik.”
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(UK, historical)The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines; now used only in the phrase sac and soc or soc and sac.
“But it is really the court-baron which represents the ancient assembly of the mark, while the court-leet represents the lord's jurisdiction of sac and soc, whether granted before or since the coming of William.”
“In later times, if the lord had "sac and soc,” his court had the authority of the Court Leet; if he had the view of frankpledge the suitors at his court were free from attendance at the sheriff's tourn; his court was then in all points like the hundred court, but independent of the sheriff.”
“The grant of “sac and soc” did not always carry with it the right to hold a court, but frequently amounted only to the privilege of receiving the forfeitures the lord's men should incur in the Hundred court, or possibly to one-third of the revenues of the Hundred and Shire, which had formerly gone to the ealdorman.”
- (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of senior aircraftman.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of saeculum ante Christum (“era before Christ”).
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Sauk.
verb
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(informal, transitive)To sacrifice.
“Kasparov sacked his queen early on in the game to gain a positional advantage against Kramnik.”
“I kept saccing monsters at the altar until I was rewarded with a new weapon.”
name
- (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Sacramento.
- (US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Strategic Air Command.
- (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of surface air consumption.
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Sauk.
- (informal)The city of Sacramento, California, United States.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek σᾰ́κκος (sắkkos)bor. Latin saccus Old French sac French sacbor. English sac Borrowed from French sac. Doublet of saccus, sack, saco, and sakkos.
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