Sac

Word SAC
Character 3
Hyphenation sac
Pronunciations /sæk/

Definitions and meanings of "Sac"

What do we mean by sac?

A sacrifice fly. noun

A sacrifice bunt. noun

A pouch or pouchlike structure in an organism, sometimes filled with fluid. noun

In law, the privilege enjoyed by the lord of a manor of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines. Also saccage. noun

In bot., anat., and zoology, a sack, cyst, bag, bursa, pouch, purse, or receptacle of some kind specified by a qualifying word; a saccule; a saccus. noun

Synonyms Sac, Saccule, Saccus, Sacculus. The first two are English, the last two Latin and only technically used, chiefly in special phrases. There is no such difference in meaning as the form of the words would imply, some of the largest sacs being called saccules or sacculi, some of the smallest sacs or sacci. noun

A member of a tribe of Algonkin Indians, allied to the Foxes, who lived near the upper Mississippi previous to the Black Hawk war of 1832. The greater part are now on reservations. noun

The privilege formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines. noun

See sacs. noun

See 2d sack. noun

A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack. noun

A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid. noun

To sacrifice (a creature). verb

An enclosed space noun

A member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay noun

A structure resembling a bag in an animal noun

A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule noun

A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Sac

The word "sac" in example sentences

The excess amniotic fluid was then removed from the recipient twin sac, and antibiotics were placed into the uterine cavity to decrease the risk of infection. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I had been walking home through the wilderness that separated my cul-de-sac from the grocery store, it was a walk I had taken hundreds of times over the past five years, when I tripped. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The sac is filled with foam blocks that arrive all packed tight. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The right pleural sac is shorter, wider, and reaches higher in the neck than the left. ❋ Unknown (1918)

[FN#137] The word sac (leg), when used in the oblique case, as it would necessarily be here, makes saki, i.e. cup-bearer. ❋ Anonymous (1879)

The sac is REALLY comfy, but it doesn’t hold its shape the way the Omni does. ❋ Unknown (2008)

An umbilical hernia occurs when a baby's abdominal wall doesn't completely close before birth, causing a small piece of bowel or fat under the skin, often referred to as the sac, to stick out. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There are multiples of bronchioles that conduct air to the acinus, or small sac, which is the lung as we generally think of it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But animals, with scarcely an exception, and conspicuously all such as are capable of locomotion, are provided with a stomachal sac, which is as it were an internal substitute for the earth. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Inside the sac was a colored fluid, purpose unknown—possibly a nutrient or a lubricant. ❋ Barbara Paul (1990)

The bladder is thickened, and its base is dilated in the form of a sac, which is dependent, and upon which rests a calculus. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

Imbedded in the granular lining of the sac is a roundish body (_n_), which itself has a definite membrane, and usually shows one or more roundish bodies within, besides an indistinctly granular appearance. ❋ Douglas Houghton Campbell (N/A)

The inner portion, called the _membranous labyrinth_, consists essentially of a closed membranous sac, which is filled with the endolymph. ❋ Francis M. Walters (N/A)

Between these is the wide opening of the yolk-sac, which is gradually narrowed and reduced to a small foramen leading into the vitelline duct. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Here the sac, which is situated at the base of the heart, and is the part analogous to the auricle in man, plainly throws the blood into the heart, and the heart in its turn conspicuously transmits it by a pipe or artery, or vessel analogous to an artery; these are facts which are confirmed by simple ocular experiment. ❋ Various (1909)

This becomes at last a great hollow sac, which is applied closely to the porous shell, and the extent of which will be appreciated by looking at Figure 5, Sheet 24, where the allantois is shaded. ❋ Unknown (1906)

The dart is contained in a dart-sac, which is attached as a sort of pocket to the vagina, at no great distance from its orifice. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

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