sac

[ sak ]

/ sæk /

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noun

a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.

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Origin of sac

1735–45; < Latin saccus sack¹

Related formssac·like, adjective

Can be confusedbag sac sack sacque

Sac

[ sak, sawk ]

/ sæk, sɔk /

noun, plural Sacs, (especially collectively) Sac.

Sauk.

SAC

or S.A.C.

[ sak ]

/ sæk /

noun

Strategic Air Command.

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Examples from the Web for sac

Meanwhile, in lower Manhattan, former SAC Capital manager Matthew Martoma is on trial for insider trading in drug-company stocks.
Confide Is the Best Way to Keep Your Dastardly Deeds Hidden—For Now|Daniel Gross|January 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As part of the deal, Cohen and SAC Capital had to plead guilty to the charges, and had to accept a further monetary punishment.
That’ll Be $1.2 Billion, Please|Daniel Gross|November 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Cohen and SAC in March agreed to pay a $616 million fine to settle insider-trading charges.
That’ll Be $1.2 Billion, Please|Daniel Gross|November 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The settlement is actually for $1.8 billion, but SAC Capital is getting a credit for the $616 million it already paid the SEC.
That’ll Be $1.2 Billion, Please|Daniel Gross|November 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST

On Monday, SAC agreed to pay a record $1.2 billion to resolve insider-trading charges.
That’ll Be $1.2 Billion, Please|Daniel Gross|November 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
What we call the auditive organ is in the lower animals simply a sac containing auditive stones.
Popular scientific lectures|Ernst Mach
The assistant now holds these forceps and thus supports the sac so the operator can see the duct clearly.
Fur Farming For Profit|Hermon Basil Laymon
Perianth neither gibbous nor with any trace of a spur or sac at the base.
The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States|Asa Gray
When half the sac has been worked through the opening the sac suddenly pops up out of the gizzard-like envelope.
Fur Farming For Profit|Hermon Basil Laymon
He knew that the lungs were covered by thin membrane, and that the heart was surrounded by a sac of very similar tissue.
A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5)|Henry Smith Williams

British Dictionary definitions for sac

sac

/ (sæk) /

noun

a pouch, bag, or pouchlike part in an animal or plant

Derived Formssaclike, adjective

Word Origin for sac

C18: from French, from Latin saccus; see sack 1

SAC

abbreviation for (in Britain)

Special Area of Conservation

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Word Origin and History for sac

sac

"biological pocket," 1741, from French sac, from Latin saccus "bag" (see sack (n.1)).

Sac

central Algonquian people who lived near the upper Mississippi before the Black Hawk War of 1832, from French Canadian Saki, probably a shortened borrowing of Ojibwa (Algonquian) /osa:ki:/, literally "person of the outlet" (of the Saginaw River, which itself contains their name, and means literally "in the Sauk country").

Medicine definitions for sac

sac

[ săk ]

n.

A pouch or bursa.

An encysted abscess at the root of a tooth.

The capsule of a tumor or the envelope of a cyst.

Science definitions for sac

sac

[ săk ]

A pouch or pouch-shaped structure in an animal or plant, often containing liquids. The human bladder is a sac.

sac

noun

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Sac

noun, plural Sacs, (especially collectively) Sac.

SAC

or S.A.C.

noun

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sac

noun

Word Origin for sac

SAC

abbreviation for (in Britain)

sac

Sac

sac

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