ack

ack

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Aka-Kora.

• IPA^(key): /æk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Clipping of acknowledged.

ack (plural acks)

1. (military, now historical) The letter A as used in signalling and other types of communications.
   • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 173:

     They had to begin at the beginning: learning the Morse code, flag-wagging, a succession of acks, and practice on the buzzer.

2. (data communications) acknowledgment signal

• (data communications): ACK

• (antonym(s) of “data communications”): nack, nak

• ack emma
• ack-ack

ack (third-person singular simple present acks, present participle acking, simple past and past participle acked)

1. Alternative form of ACK.

ack

1. (radio communications) acknowledged

Imitative.

ack

1. Expressing distaste, alarm, or trepidation.

• AKC, cak

• akk, ac'
• act, actt, auct, accke, aick, akk (older)

From Middle English acte, from Old French act, from Latin ācta, plural of āctus.

• IPA^(key): /ɑk/

ack (plural acks)

1. act

ack (past participle acket)

1. to act

• acker
• ackie

• “ack, n., v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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From Old Swedish akh, from Middle Low German ach (“an unhappy interjection”).

ack

1. alas, oh (exclamation of sorrow, etc.)

• ve
• eja

Clipping of ackumulator.

ack c

1. (electronics, slang) an electric accumulator.

• ackumulator