appurtenanceformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Things needed for a task
accoutrements
apparatus
armoury
could use somethingidiom
equipment
gadgetry
gear
kit
material
matériel
necessaries
paraphernalia
stock-in-trade
thing
tool
tool (something/someone) up
use

tacklenoun (SEXUAL ORGANS)

[ U ]UKslanghumorous(alsowedding tackle)
the male sexual organs男性性器官

tackle | American Dictionary

tackle
verb[ T ]
us/ˈtæk·əl/

tackleverb[T] (KNOCK DOWN)

to catch and knock down someone who is running, esp. in the game of football:
All four players were unable to tackle the quarterback before he scored a touchdown.

tackleverb[T] (ATTACK)

to attack or to deal with something:
There are many ways of tackling this problem.
tackle
noun
us/ˈtæk·əl/

tacklenoun (EQUIPMENT)

[ U ]
the equipment used in fishing or to lift or raise things on a ship

tacklenoun (KNOCKING DOWN)

[ C ]
an act of knocking someone down, or a football player who is supposed to do this:
A flying tackle brought him down.
He’s an offensive/defensive tackle.

tackle | Business English

tackle
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈtækl/us
to try to deal with something:
The first thing the new government must do is to tackle inflation.
tackle a crisis/question/problem
I felt that the whole subject was too sensitive to tackle.
to talk to someone about a difficult situation, usually because you disagree with them:
tackle sb on/about sthI was determined to tackle my boss on the way I had been treated.

Examples of tackle

tackle
Ethical and spiritual issues were thoughtfully tackled, and there was a helpful chapter on the management of physical symptoms.
These two problems can be tackled through an information-theoretical approach, as has been done in other corpus-based statistical language modeling studies.
Before really tackling the issues of longrange planning strategies, in chapter 7, the author sets the scene in the first five chapters.
So there is no escaping from it: scientific language has to be tackled and mastered if scientific thought is to be followed.
The present paper tackles this issue using cluster analysis with large independent samples of eating-disorder patients.
However, this perspective allows certain problems to be tackled more easily.
We will first tackle the problem of adapting single streams to different time scales.
This issue is tackled by adopting a uniform underlying agent architecture, the multi-context architecture.
This book has tackled the important aspect of 'prosody in use', and highlighted the weakness of decontextualized theorizing.
This goal is motivated by the observation that linguistically motivated grammars are unable to tackle a large number of 'exceptions', each requiring a special treatment.
A group of local people had identified learning disabilities as an area they wanted to tackle, but that this was not included.
In fact, research projects large and small, just waiting to be tackled, jump out with startling frequency.
Finally, we demonstrate the flexibility of the computational tools used to tackle problems at different scales.
Even their justified criticisms of cladistic methodologies are somewhat imprecise and do not tackle the fundamental problems of this approach.
Internally, these values confer to the members the ability to reflect critically on the way they tackle tasks and relate to one another.
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Collocations withtackle

tackle

These are words often used in combination with tackle.

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left tackle
The following year, injuries struck the team's offensive line, and he was moved to the left tackle position.
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