TACKLE


Meaning of TACKLE in English

I.

noun

1 movement in sports

ADJECTIVE

▪ hard , strong

▪ high

Their captain was sent off for a high ~ on Cooper.

▪ bad , crunching , late (all BrE )

▪ cover , scything , sliding (all BrE )

▪ brave , skilful (both BrE )

▪ flying

A security guard brought him down with a flying ~.

▪ football ( AmE ), rugby

VERB + TACKLE

▪ execute ( BrE ), make

▪ break ( AmE )

▪ miss

PREPOSITION

▪ ~ from

a crunching ~ from her opponent

▪ ~ against , ~ on ( BrE )

He bruised his arm making a ~ against the Browns.

He was booked for a ~ from behind on Morris.

▪ in a/the ~

She lost the ball in a ~.

2 position in American football

ADJECTIVE

▪ defensive , offensive

▪ left , right

▪ nose

VERB + TACKLE

▪ play

▪ draft

II.

verb

1 deal with sth difficult

ADVERB

▪ properly ( BrE ), seriously

▪ directly ( esp. BrE ), head-on

The drugs problem has to be ~d head-on.

▪ effectively , successfully

VERB + TACKLE

▪ attempt to , try to

▪ help (to)

▪ fail to

We are failing to ~ the key issues.

PREPOSITION

▪ with

The problem is being ~d with a range of measures.

PHRASES

▪ ~ sb to the floor , ~ sb to the ground (both AmE )

2 in sports

ADVERB

▪ hard

He can run fast and ~ hard.

Tackle is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ firefighter

Tackle is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ blaze , ↑ challenge , ↑ corruption , ↑ crime , ↑ crisis , ↑ debt , ↑ deficit , ↑ disorder , ↑ intruder , ↑ issue , ↑ matter , ↑ opponent , ↑ pollution , ↑ problem , ↑ question , ↑ racism , ↑ shortage , ↑ spread , ↑ subject , ↑ task , ↑ topic , ↑ truancy , ↑ unemployment , ↑ vandalism

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .