racked
架设的,架设,架式,架上的
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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
Now, with high-speed lifts strung up like Christmas lights, you can rack that much vertical before noon.
Position a baking rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees.
For the crustFor the fillingFor the toppingPosition a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 325 degrees.
Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 425 degrees.
One version, which has more than 10 million views on Twitter, features a rack of facial coverings and Lively’s voice.
All the while they racked up favorable coverage in the mainstream press, and even more sycophantic mentions in the gay press.
Forty Years Young: Hello Kitty and the Power of Cute By Julia Rubin, Racked Hello Kitty is everywhere.
A small-town Ohio elementary school teacher just racked up 25 charges on an otherwise clean record for allegedly raping her son.
Working on his own piece of the intelligence puzzle, Stasio racked up impressive victories.
That explains the impressive roster of guest stars the series has racked up of politicians playing themselves.
“Mon pauvre petit, you are hungry,” said Aristide, carrying it to the car racked by the clattering engine.
As long as he could hold a brush, Bastien-Lepage continued to work, in spite of the sufferings which racked him.
At the back, near a stand that racked a number of grease guns, he saw a second telephone fixed to the wall.
He had racked his brain through the whole performance, but could not decide in what circumstances they had previously met.
Diotti divined that something beyond sympathy for old Sanders sudden death racked her soul.