Word of the week: Slack

This one was inspired by my friend Richard Kolb's favorite distro: http://www.slackware.com/
which by the way has a new South-african derivative: http://www.kongoni.co.za/
This may not be that informative, but its still fun to call slackware lazy, weak, tardy, late, idle, quiet and slowing :)

slack

–adjective

1.	not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.

2.	negligent; careless; remiss: slack proofreading.

3.	slow, sluggish, or indolent: He is slack in answering letters.

4.	not active or busy; dull; not brisk: the slack season in an industry.

5.	moving very slowly, as the tide, wind, or water.

6.	weak; lax.

7.	Nautical. easy (def. 15a).

–adverb

8.	in a slack manner.

–noun

9.	a slack condition or part.

10.	the part of a rope, sail, or the like, that hangs loose, without strain upon it.

11.	a decrease in activity, as in business or work: a sudden slack in output.

12.	a period of decreased activity.

13.	Geography. a cessation in a strong flow, as of a current at its turn.

14.	a depression between hills, in a hillside, or in the land surface.

15.	Prosody. (in sprung rhythm) the unaccented syllable or syllables.

16.	British Dialect. a morass; marshy ground; a hollow or dell with soft, wet ground at the bottom.

–verb (used with object)

17.	to be remiss in respect to (some matter, duty, right, etc.); shirk; leave undone: He slacked the most important part.

18.	to make or allow to become less active, vigorous, intense, etc.; relax (efforts, labor, speed, etc.); lessen; moderate (often fol. by up).

19.	to make loose, or less tense or taut, as a rope; loosen (often fol. by off or out).

20.	to slake (lime).

–verb (used without object)

21.	to be remiss; shirk one's duty or part.

22.	to become less active, vigorous, rapid, etc. (often fol. by up): Business is slacking up.

23.	to become less tense or taut, as a rope; to ease off.

24.	to become slaked, as lime.

—Idiom

25.	take up the slack, a. to pull in or make taut a loose section of a rope, line, wire, etc.: Take up the slack before releasing the kite. b. to provide or compensate for something that is missing or incomplete: New sources of oil will take up the slack resulting from the embargo.

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Origin:
bef. 900; ME slac (adj.), OE sleac, slæc; c. ON slakr, OHG slach, L laxus lax

Related forms:

slack⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

slackly, adverb

slackness, noun

Synonyms:
1. relaxed. 2. lazy, weak. 3. dilatory, tardy, late. 4. idle, quiet. 11. slowing, relaxation. 17. neglect. 18. reduce, slacken. 21. malinger.

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