Sentence examples for tac- from inspiring English sources

Piet Hein of Denmark, also known for his invention of the mathematical games known as hex and tac tix, stumbled upon the fact that all the irregular shapes that can be formed by combining three or four congruent cubes joined at their faces can be put together to form a larger cube.

The Danish mathematician Piet Hein, also known for his invention of the mathematical games known as hex and tac tix, stumbled upon the fact that the seven Soma Cubes can be put together to form a larger cube containing 27 "unit" cubes.

The sight of a madman in a deerstalker wandering through Rochester and Strood waving his arms and spouting incomprehensible tic tac, screaming "Ladbrokes go double carpet on Mark Reckless taking it for Ukip… that's 1-33 Reckless, 25-1 the field", and furiously berating the idiot waving to his mum in the background, would be a delight.

Second prize went to Panayiotis Lamprou for Portrait of my British wife and third to Jeffrey Stockbridge for Tic Tac and Tootsie.

Against men he won't yet be the dominant physical presence he was in the TAC Cup, but what he will be given is plenty of opportunities in a rebuilding St Kilda side.

Earlier this year the TAC sued the government in the Constitutional Court and forced it to set up a national programme to give anti-AIDS drugs to infected pregnant women.

Dr Stojanovic and his colleague Joanna Macdonald have used this approach to build simple DNA-based circuits capable of playing tic-tac-toe (though they take about half an hour to make each move).Yannick Rondelez, a researcher in molecular programming at the University of Tokyo, is creating circuits in test tubes in a way that more closely resembles the operation of natural cells.

"I used to be a tic-tac man, shouting the odds.

"If you chopped off John McCririck's arms to stop him doing tic-tac, he wouldn't be John McCririck," he said.

There is no such confidence amongst the tic-tac brigade on this subject: indeed, the odds are all over the shop, to the extent that Chris Robshaw, the much-criticised incumbent, remains third favourite – even though the world and his maiden aunt expects him to be ditched ahead of the opening Six Nations game with Scotland at Murrayfield in early February.

It found that his style of dress, views and tic-tac gestures were "not in keeping with the new aims" of the programme makers," it said.