rack
机架,架,架子,架设
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Definitions
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- : a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- : a fixture containing several tiered shelves, often affixed to a wall: a book rack;a spice rack.
- : a spreading framework set on a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or the like, in large loads: It's an old wagon, but the bale rack is new.
- : Pool. a wooden frame of triangular shape within which the balls are arranged before play: When not in use, please return the rack to its peg on the wall.the balls so arranged: He took aim at the rack.
- : Machinery. a bar, with teeth on one of its sides, adapted to engage with the teeth of a pinion or the like, as for converting circular into rectilinear motion or vice versa: When the pinion mounted to the locomotive engages with the rack between the rails, the train can ascend a steep slope.a bar having a series of notches engaging with a pawl or the like: Instead of a round gear, this ratchet has a linear rack with which the pawl makes contact.
- : a former instrument of torture consisting of a framework on which a victim was tied, often spread-eagled, by the wrists and ankles, to be slowly stretched by spreading the parts of the framework: The racks were unspeakably horrid devices used for centuries throughout Europe.
- : a cause or state of intense suffering of body or mind.
- : torment; anguish.
- : violent strain.
- : a pair of antlers: What hunting lodge would be complete without an eight-point rack mounted above the fireplace?
- : Slang: Vulgar. a woman's breasts.
- : Slang. a bed, cot, or bunk: I spent all afternoon in the rack.
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- : to torture; distress acutely; torment: His body was racked with pain.
- : to strain in mental effort: to rack one's brains.
- : to strain by physical force or violence: Was this suspect racked into a confession?
- : to strain beyond what is normal or usual: This extreme exercise is racking your muscles.
- : to stretch the body of in torture by means of a rack: taken to the dungeon to be racked.
- : Nautical. to seize together side by side: Rack those lines, mate!
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- : rack out, Slang. to go to bed; go to sleep: I racked out all afternoon.
- : rack up, Pool.to put in a rack: You rack 'em up, and I'll break.Informal.to tally, accumulate, or amass, as an achievement or score: The corporation racked up the greatest profits in its history.
Phrases
- rack and ruin, go to
- rack one's brain
- rack out
- rack up
- on the rack
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
At an Albertson’s in South San Francisco, for example, customers blithely shop around an automated rack-and-tote system at the store’s center that preps orders for pickup and delivery.
The decree also put in place an early warning system for officers racking up use-of-force incidents at a high rate.
I’m eyeing Tern’s HSD, which can stand vertically on its rear rack, with fold-down handlebars for the smallest storage footprint possible.
Throughout the course of your day you’ll tend to be four or five out of a five-scale on average, but it doesn’t mean you don’t rack up ones and twos and threes.
Make things complicatedEven if you’ve got no decent option to lock your bike to, like a rack or a lamppost, you’re never out of options.
Bake on the center rack of the oven for 40 to 50 minutes or until set.
The clever crooks managed to rack up $2 million in profits over a year, Ares said.
Whereas other brands purchase their barrels from big producers more or less off the rack, The Macallan starts in the forest.
He put them in glamorous gowns, yes, but also encouraged them to buy trendier ready-to-wear labels off the rack.
Jenny and Ichabod rack their brains before eventually deciding to hunt for the missing Franklin documents at the archives.
The whole thing begins to have a jigsaw look, like a child's toy rack with wooden soldiers on it, expanding and contracting.
They were condemned on confessions of Islamism and paganism, extorted by the rack, and afterwards retracted.
The equilibrium valve is unchanged, except that the rack is taken out and a link put in.
The exhaust-valve is exactly as when it was put in, worked by a rack-and-tooth segment.
Best of all, there hung upon the wall of this chamber a little book-rack filled with well-selected literature.