"on the tack" meaning in All languages combined

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      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "on the tack (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Nautical",
          "orig": "en:Nautical",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "95 5",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tacking."
      ],
      "id": "en-on_the_tack-en-adj-bq7COJ64",
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "Tacking",
          "tacking"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) Tacking."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 152",
          "text": "For they were always going on the tack; a dozen pairs of sympathetic eyes would follow the consciously heroic youth as he wandered down the veranda with a glass of orange juice in his hand; and they asked anxiously, ‘How goes it, Frankie?’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Without alcohol; teetotal."
      ],
      "id": "en-on_the_tack-en-adj-EnqcdMjH",
      "links": [
        [
          "teetotal",
          "teetotal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Without alcohol; teetotal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "on the tack"
}

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    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English uncomparable adjectives"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
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      "expansion": "on the tack (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tacking."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "Tacking",
          "tacking"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) Tacking."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 152",
          "text": "For they were always going on the tack; a dozen pairs of sympathetic eyes would follow the consciously heroic youth as he wandered down the veranda with a glass of orange juice in his hand; and they asked anxiously, ‘How goes it, Frankie?’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Without alcohol; teetotal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "teetotal",
          "teetotal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Without alcohol; teetotal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "on the tack"
}