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# sack

«sack» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big strong bag for carrying things like potatoes, flour…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (sack, sacks); verb (sack, sacks, sacked, sacking)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sack is a big strong bag for carrying things like potatoes, flour or coal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sack/#m1)

2) To sack someone is to tell them they no longer have their job; «get the sack» means lose your job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sack/#m2)

3) «Hit the sack» means go to bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sack/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a container counting crops: sacks of oranges harvested each day; in games, a sack race; phrases «sack race», «a sack of potatoes», «hit the sack»

### examples

- They harvest 74 sacks of oranges per day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sack/#x1)
- 71 sacks are of ripe oranges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sack/#x2)
- How many sacks after 51 days? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sack/#x3)
- Each sack holds 20 pounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sack/#x4)
- We had a sack race on sports day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sack/#x5)
- Santa carries a sack of toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sack/#x6)
- The farmer lifted a sack of flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sack/#x7)
- I'm tired, I'll hit the sack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sack/#x8)
- He got the sack for being late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sack/#x9)
- The old mill made sacks of grain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sack/#x10)
- The ostler was carrying a sack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sack/#x11)

### note

A container and the thing counted. «sacks per day» × days. Trap: ripe and unripe sacks may be separate; read which is asked. A sack is bigger than a bag. «Sack» (fire from a job) is informal.

### In the corpora

- [An employment tribunal is a kind of court for work disputes, such as being sacked unfairly or not being paid what is owed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/17/)
- [Wild orangutans hold big leaves over their heads like umbrellas, and zoo orangutans use sacks and blankets the same way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/6/)
- [Long ago people traded by barter — swapping a sack of grain for a pair of shoes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/3/)
- [We know not who put our money in our sacks.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1423/)
- [Then they hastened, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1449/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sack» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sack/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.