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ALL meanings of rack

rack
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  • noun rack stand 1
  • noun rack shelving unit 1
  • transitive verb rack pain, sobs: convulse 1
  • noun rack food: ribs 1
  • noun rack breasts 1
  • noun rack for animal food 1
  • noun rack torture instrument 1
  • transitive verb rack hit in testicles 1
  • transitive verb rack cause mental suffering 1
  • noun rack A framework, typically with rails, bars, hooks, or pegs, for holding or storing things. 1
  • noun rack the neck portion of mutton, pork, or veal. 1
  • noun rack the rib section of a foresaddle of lamb, mutton, or sometimes veal. 1
  • verb with object rack to draw off (wine, cider, etc.) from the lees. 1
  • idioms rack go to rack and ruin, to decay, decline, or become destroyed: His property went to rack and ruin in his absence. 1
  • verb without object rack to drive or move, especially before the wind. 1
  • countable noun rack A rack is a frame or shelf, usually with bars or hooks, that is used for holding things or for hanging things on. 0
  • verb rack If someone is racked by something such as illness or anxiety, it causes them great suffering or pain. 0
  • noun rack a framework for holding, carrying, or displaying a specific load or object 0
  • noun rack a toothed bar designed to engage a pinion to form a mechanism that will interconvert rotary and rectilinear motions 0
  • noun rack a framework fixed to an aircraft for carrying bombs, rockets, etc 0
  • noun rack a cause or state of mental or bodily stress, suffering, etc; anguish; torment (esp in the phrase on the rack) 0
  • noun rack a woman's breasts 0
  • noun rack the triangular frame used to arrange the balls for the opening shot 0
  • noun rack the balls so grouped 0
  • verb rack to torture on the rack 0
  • verb rack to cause great stress or suffering to 0
  • verb rack to strain or shake (something) violently, as by great physical force 0
  • verb rack to place or arrange in or on a rack 0
  • verb rack to move (parts of machinery or a mechanism) using a toothed rack 0
  • verb rack to raise (rents) exorbitantly; rack-rent 0
  • noun rack destruction; wreck (obsolete except in the phrase go to rack and ruin) 0
  • noun rack another word for single-foot, a gait of the horse 0
  • noun rack a group of broken clouds moving in the wind 0
  • verb rack (of clouds) to be blown along by the wind 0
  • verb rack to clear (wine, beer, etc) as by siphoning it off from the dregs 0
  • verb rack to fill a container with (beer, wine, etc) 0
  • noun rack the neck or rib section of mutton, pork, or veal 0
  • noun rack a framework, grating, case, stand, etc. for holding or displaying various things 0
  • noun rack a triangular form for arranging billiard balls at the beginning of a game of pool 0
  • noun rack the billiard balls as set up before the break 0
  • noun rack a lift used for automotive vehicles 0
  • noun rack a frame for holding cases of type 0
  • noun rack a toothed bar into which a pinion, worm gear, etc. meshes for receiving or transmitting motion, as in automotive steering systems 0
  • noun rack a pair of antlers 0
  • noun rack an instrument of torture having a frame on which the victim's body is bound and stretched until the limbs are pulled out of place 0
  • noun rack any great mental or physical torment, or its cause 0
  • noun rack a wrenching or upheaval, as by a storm 0
  • verb transitive rack to arrange in or on a rack 0
  • verb transitive rack to torture on a rack 0
  • verb transitive rack to trouble, torment, or afflict 0
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