rack
IPA: rˈæk
noun
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- (nautical, slang) A bunk.
- (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- A distaff.
- (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
- (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
- (slang) A thousand, especially if proceeds of a crime.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- A fast amble.
- (obsolete) A wreck; destruction.
- (obsolete) A young rabbit, or its skin.
- Alternative form of arak [A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Levant.]
- (BDSM) Initialism of risk-aware consensual kink.
verb
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
- (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
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Examples of "rack" in Sentences
- Or, in this case, right into the word rack of your opponent.
- In hardware lingo, a rack is a cabinet that holds server computers, and a node is shorthand for a server itself.
- Some people don't understand this, they think because this one with a rack is a big deal than other poaching isn't.
- Hey, the rack is at about a 45 degree angle, that means half of the weight is supported by the machine and the other half by him.
- As of version 0.9.4 (released this week), racksh uses Bryan Helmkamp's rack-test to simulate HTTP requests to your Rack application via the $rack variable.
- Yes | No | Report from ochs2448 wrote 13 weeks 2 days ago nice nice nice big buck the rack is amazing and so it the body ... congrats man keep up good hunting
- Clothes pins attached to one side hold flatware and smaller items while the built in rack is suitable for anything you can throw at it (but the kitchen sink!).
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