Bag vs. Sack

A container of flexible material, such as paper, plastic, or leather, that is used for carrying or storing items.

A bag, especially one made of strong material for holding grain or objects in bulk.

A handbag; a purse.

The amount that a sack can hold

A piece of hand luggage, such as a suitcase or satchel.

Also sacque A short loose-fitting garment for women and children.

A pouchlike or sagging organ or part of the body, such as a cow's udder.

(Slang) Dismissal from employment

An object that resembles a pouch.

(Informal) A bed, mattress, or sleeping bag

(Nautical) The sagging or bulging part of a sail.

(Baseball) A base.

The amount that a bag can hold.

(Football) A successful attempt at sacking the quarterback.

An amount of game taken or legally permitted to be taken.

The looting or pillaging of a captured city or town.

(Baseball) A base.

Any of various light, dry, strong wines from Spain and the Canary Islands, imported to England in the 1500s and 1600s.

(Slang) An area of interest or skill

To place into a sack

(Slang) A woman considered ugly or unkempt.

(Slang) To discharge from employment

To put into a bag

(Football) To tackle (a quarterback attempting to pass the ball) behind the line of scrimmage.

To cause to bulge like a pouch.

To rob (a town, for example) of goods or valuables, especially after capture.

To capture or kill as game

A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.

To gain; acquire

The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).

To capture or arrest

(uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.

To accomplish or achieve

(uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.

To fail to attend purposely; skip

(American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. See verb sense⁴ below.

To stop doing or considering; abandon

(baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.

To terminate the employment of.

(informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense⁵ below.

To pack items in a bag.

Bed (either literally or figuratively); usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.

To hang loosely

(dated) (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders, such as a gown with a Watteau back or sack-back, fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century; or, formerly, a loose-fitting hip-length jacket, cloak or cape.

To swell out; bulge.

(dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.

A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.

The scrotum.

A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags.

(dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.

(colloquial) One's preference.

Alternative spelling of sac

(derogatory) An ugly woman.

To put in a sack or sacks.

A fellow gay man.

To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.

(baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.

(baseball) First, second, or third base.

(American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.

(preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.

To discharge from a job or position; to fire.

(mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.

A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.

A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.

The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.

Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack.

A scrotum.

A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.

(UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.

See 2d Sac, 2.

A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.

Bed.

(slang) A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.

The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.

£1000, a grand.

To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.

(informal) A large number or amount.

To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.

(transitive) To put into a bag.

To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.

(transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score

A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

(informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.

An enclosed space;

To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.

The quantity contained in a sack

(slang) To steal.

Any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)

To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.

A woman's full loose hiplength jacket

(slang) To arrest.

A hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swing easily

(transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.

A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist

To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.

The plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter;

To fit with a bag to collect urine.

The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag

Plunder (a town) after capture;

To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.

Terminate the employment of;

To hang like an empty bag.

Make as a net profit;

To drop away from the correct course.

Put in a sack;

To become pregnant.

To forget, ignore, or get rid of.

To show particular puffy emotion

To swell with arrogance.

To laugh uncontrollably.

To criticise sarcastically.

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.

A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.

The quantity of game bagged.

A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.

To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.

To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.

To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.

To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

To swell with arrogance.

To become pregnant.

A flexible container with a single opening;

The quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person);

Place that runner must touch before scoring;

A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women);

The quantity that a bag will hold;

A portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes;

An ugly or ill-tempered woman;

Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)

An activity that you like or at which you are superior;

Capture or kill, as in hunting;

Hang loosely, like an empty bag

Bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

Take unlawfully

Put into a bag;