to tack together
- phrasal verb
:
unir con chinchetas
Examples
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The structure was feeble anyhow, made of old, cast-off boards tacked together in a hurry twenty years before, never rebuilt, never renovated, and it came down upon Noonan's head with ease.
Fiction book (2000) -
The carpenter tacked together the wooden pieces to create a temporary table.
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She quickly tacked together a makeshift shelter using old tarps and branches.
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In the workshop, they tacked together the frame before securing it with screws.
Synonyms
988
2.8
To make something by joining parts, like a model, plan or team
169
2.9
To put parts together to make something like a machine or toy
89
4.2
To join parts together to make something whole
30
4.9
Fasten something to a surface with small nails or pins
22
3.5
Make something quickly without much care or planning
21
5.3
To put things together quickly and roughly using what is available
16
5.2
Make something quickly and roughly from things you have
3
6.0
Make something quickly without caring about details
1
4.9
Make something quickly that will not last long
To make something quickly and roughly using what is available
Make something quickly and carelessly using what you have
To make something quickly and without care using what you have
To get a small amount of something quickly with little money or time
Antonyms
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The core meaning 'to fasten or join together' is directly derivable from combining 'tack' (to fasten/pin) with 'together', so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the basic sense. The extra pragmatic nuance of doing this hastily or temporarily may not be fully predictable, but the compositional joining/fastening sense is transparent.
Etymology
The phrasal verb tack together comes from the simple action of holding pieces with quick stitches or small nails, where the join is only meant to last for a short time. So to tack something together means to join things quickly and roughly, often in a 'temporary' way.