Dictionary Definition
rack
Noun
1 framework for holding objects
2 rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or
especially lamb or mutton
3 the destruction or collapse of something;
"wrack and ruin" [syn: wrack]
4 an instrument of torture that stretches or
disjoints or mutilates victims [syn: wheel]
5 a support for displaying various articles; "the
newspapers were arranged on a rack" [syn: stand]
6 a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot
strikes the ground separately [syn: single-foot]
Verb
1 go at a rack; "the horses single-footed" [syn:
single-foot]
2 stretch to the limits; "rack one's
brains"
3 put on a rack and pinion; "rack a camera"
4 obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They
extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past
to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the
business by threatening him" [syn: extort, squeeze, gouge, wring]
5 run before a gale [syn: scud]
6 fly in high wind
7 draw off from the lees; "rack wine"
9 work on a rack; "rack leather"
10 seize together, as of parallel ropes of a
tackle in order to prevent running through the block
11 torture on the rack
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ræk/
- Rhymes with: -æk
Etymology 1
Middle EnglishNoun
- a series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
- a frame with which to hang various items.
- a device used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- a pair of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- a cut of meat involving
several adjacent ribs
- I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday.
- A triangle used for alignment at the start of a game.
- a woman's breasts.
Translations
series of shelves
torture device
- Dutch: pijnbank
- Finnish: piinapenkki
- Swedish: sträckbänk
frame for hanging objects
- Finnish: naulakko
- Swedish: (for clothing) klädhängare
cut of meat
- French: carré
- Swedish: revbensspjäll
woman's breasts
- Finnish: rintavarustus (literally "chest equipment"), rinnat p
- Swedish: hylla (literally "shelf")
Verb
- To place in or hang on a rack
- In the context of "sports|billiards|snooker|pool": To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- To strike a male in the groin with the knee.
Etymology 2
reċċanVerb
- stretch joints of a person
Etymology 3
rakkenVerb
Extensive Definition
Rack may refer to:
People
- Rack (Buffyverse)
- Reinhard Rack, an Austrian politician
Kinds of racks
- Rack (torture)
- Rack (billiards)
- 19-inch rack, a system for mounting electronic modules
- Amp rack, short for amplifier rack, a piece of furniture in which amplifiers are mounted
- Bicycle rack
- Bustle rack, a type of storage bin mounted on armored fighting vehicles
- Drying rack, a device intended for hanging clothing to dry
- Magazine rack, a device intended for holding and displaying magazines
- Crowned rack of lamb, a culinary dish
- Roof rack, a system used to carry items on top of a car
- Toast rack, a serving piece
Other uses
- Rack and pinion, a gear arrangement commonly used in vehicle steering
- RACK protein, an acronym for Receptor for Activated C Kinase
- Rack lift, a type of elevator
- Rack railway
- Racking, the transfer of a liquid (such as wine) from one container to another
- Racking focus, a photography technique
- Racks and quandles, concepts in abstract algebra
- Risk-aware consensual kink, a BDSM term
- A term in climbing
- A slang term for breasts
- Navy jargon for bed
rack in Spanish: Rack (desambiguación)
rack in Japanese: ラック
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Chateaubriand, Hydromatic, Procrustean bed,
adversity, afflict, affliction, agonize, agony, ail, amble, andante, anguish, archives, armory, arsenal, atrocious pain,
attic, automatic
transmission, bank,
barge, basement, batter, bay, beat, bed of Procrustes, beleaguer, bin, bite, blade roast, bloody, bonded warehouse,
bookcase, boot, bowl along, box, breast, brisket, bundle, bunker, burn, buttery, cargo dock, cellar, chafe, chest, chuck, chuck roast, claudication, claw, clawing, clod, closet, clump, cogwheel, cold cuts, confinement, conservatory, convulse, crate, crawl, creep, crib, cruciation, crucifixion, crucify, cupboard, cut, damage, dead march, depository, depot, differential, differential
gear, dismember,
dismemberment,
distress, dock, dogtrot, drag, draw and quarter, drawer, droop, dump, estrapade, exchequer, excruciate, excruciation, fester, filet mignon, flank, flounce, foot, footpace, footslog, frame, framework, freewheel, fret, funeral march, gait, gall, galleys, gallop, gear, gear train, gearbox, gearing, gearshift, gearwheel, give pain, glory
hole, gnaw, godown, grate, grill, grind, gripe, halt, harass, hard labor, harrow, haul, heave, hell, hell upon earth, high, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hold, holder, holocaust, hop, horror, hurt, hutch, impale, impalement, imprisonment, incarceration, inflame, inflict pain, intermediate, iron heel,
irritate, jailing, jog, jog trot, jolt, jump, keelhaul, keelhauling, kill by inches,
knuckle, lacerate, laceration, lancinate, lancination, leisurely gait,
library, limp, lock step, locker, loin, low, lumber, lumber room, lumbering
pace, lumberyard,
lunge, lurch, macerate, magasin, magazine, martyr, martyrdom, martyrization, martyrize, mince, mincing steps, misery, neutral, nightmare, nip, oppress, overdrive, overexert, overexertion, overextend, overextension, overstrain, overstress, overtax, overtaxing, pace, paddle, pain, passion, peg, penal servitude, persecute, persecution, piaffe, piaffer, picket, picketing, pierce, pinch, plague, plate, plate piece, plod, pot roast, prance, press, prick, prolong the agony, pull, punish, purgatory, put to torture,
railriding, rankle, rasp, repertory, repository, reservoir, reverse, rib roast, ribs, rick, rip, roast, rock pile, roll, rolled roast, round, rub, rump, rump roast, saddle, sashay, saunter, savage, scaffold, scaffolding, scarify, scarpines, scourge, screw, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shake, shamble, shank, shelf, short ribs, shoulder, shoulder clod,
shuffle, sidle, single-foot, sirloin, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slow march, slow motion,
slowness, stab, stack, stack room, stagger, stalk, stamp, stand, standard transmission,
step, stick shift, sting, stock room, stomp, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, straddle, straggle, strain, strain every nerve,
straining, strappado, stress, stress and strain,
stressfulness,
stretch, stretcher, stride, stroll, strolling gait, structure, strut, stump, suffering, supply base, supply
depot, support, swagger, sweat blood, swing, synchromesh, tank, tar and feather,
tar-and-feathering, tax,
taxing, tenderloin, tense, tension, the gantlet, thumbscrew, tittup, toddle, torment, torture, totter, traipse, transmission, tread, treasure house, treasure
room, treasury,
trestle, trip, trot, trudge, try, tug, tweak, twist, vat, vault, velocity, waddle, walk, wamble, warehouse, wheel, wiggle, wine cellar, wobble, wound, wrench, wring