All tackle synonyms
tackΒ·le
T t verb tackle
- confront β If you are confronted with a problem, task, or difficulty, you have to deal with it.
- go to it β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- attempt β If you make an attempt to do something, you try to do it, often without success.
- wade β to walk in water, when partially immersed: He wasn't swimming, he was wading.
- hold to β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- have a hand in β the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- address β Your address is the number of the house, flat, or apartment and the name of the street and the town where you live or work.
- go out for β To go out for something means to try to do it or be chosen for it.
- combat β Combat is fighting that takes place in a war.
- break one's back β to overwork or work very hard
- go all out β make a full effort
- break one's neck β to exert oneself greatly, esp by hurrying, in order to do something
- lend a hand β the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- have a shot at β a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- get cracking β to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- cinching β a strong girth used on stock saddles, having a ring at each end to which a strap running from the saddle is secured.
- engage β Occupy, attract, or involve (someone's interest or attention).
- do one's bit β a small piece or quantity of anything: a bit of string.
- busying β actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime: busy with her work.
- field β Cyrus West, 1819β92, U.S. financier: projector of the first Atlantic cable.
- ford β Elizabeth Bloomer ("Betty") 1918β2011, U.S. First Lady 1974β77 (wife of Gerald R. Ford).
- harness β the combination of straps, bands, and other parts forming the working gear of a draft animal. Compare yoke1 (def 1).
- lift a finger β the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- face β the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- adventuring β the act of doing adventurous things or having adventures
- go for broke β a simple past tense of break.
- forded β a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
- busied β actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime: busy with her work.
- kick off β the act of kicking; a blow or thrust with the foot or feet.
- blockaded β the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor, or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit.
- fording β a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
- go in for β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- hang up β the way in which a thing hangs.
noun tackle
- contrivance β If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
- whatsis β a thing or object whose name one does not know or cannot recall.
- accoutrements β all the things you have with you when you travel or take part in a particular activity, such as clothing and equipment
- whatsit β whatsis.
- materials β the substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed: Stone is a durable material.
- zipper β Also called slide fastener. a device used for fastening clothing, valises, etc., consisting of two toothed tracks or spiral metal or plastic coils, each bordering one of two edges to be joined, and a piece that either interlocks or separates them when pulled.
- jazz β music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
- equipment β The necessary items for a particular purpose.
- grabber β a person or thing that grabs.
- outfit β an assemblage of articles that equip a person for a particular task, role, trade, etc.: an explorer's outfit.
- clobber β You can refer to someone's possessions, especially their clothes, as their clobber.
- get-up β costume; outfit: Everyone will stare at you if you wear that getup.