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sac ~ sack

[‘sac’ and ‘sack’ have the same pronunciation that rhymes with "back"]

“Sac” (noun, technical) is ‘a bag or balloon like part inside a plant or animal, including humans, that contains some liquid or gas’,

e.g.

The baby came out of its mother with the sac still attached to it.

[“Sac” is also used for: (non-technical) (1) a soft sofa-like chair  (2) a basket-like bag  (3) a covering, usually of cotton woollen cloth, to wrap a baby to keep it warm in cold weather, or after giving it a bath.  “Cul-de-sac” (noun) is ‘a road which is closed at one end, not a thoroughfare, so that there is only one way in and out of it; and ‘an unpleasant or unhelpful situation in which a person or an organisation cannot make any progress’.]

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“Sack”, as a noun, is ‘a large bag made of strong coarse (rough) cloth, used for storing or carrying things like tools, flour, rice, coal, vegetables, etc.; the act of removing somebody from their job for some wrong doing (usually ‘give or take the sack’)’; and as a verb, it is ‘to dismiss (remove) someone from their job; (of soldiers) to go through a place destroying it and stealing things from that place and killing people’,

e.g.

He was seen carrying a large sack on his shoulder.

Some factories were forced to sack hundreds of workers.

Rome was sacked by numerous barbarians after the death of Julius Caesar.

{“Ransack” is ‘to rob a place of all the things; to search a place or thing making a mess of that place (making it dirty), usually in a hurry’.}

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