English Explanatory Dictionary

rack

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
  2. Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
  3. A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
  4. A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
  5. A bunk.
  6. Sleep.
  7. A distaff.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
  11. A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
  12. A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
verb
  1. To place in or hang on a rack.
  2. To torture (someone) on the rack.
  3. To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
  4. To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
  5. To alternately concatenate two words to magical effect.
  6. To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
  7. To strike in the testicles.
  8. To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
  9. To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
  10. To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  11. To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
  12. To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
verb
  1. To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
  2. To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
noun
  1. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
verb
  1. To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
verb
  1. To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
noun
  1. A fast amble.
noun
  1. A wreck; destruction.
noun
  1. A young rabbit, or its skin.
noun
  1. Alternative form of arak.
noun
  1. Initialism of risk-aware consensual kink.

Pronunciation

/ɹæk/ en-us-rack.ogg

Word forms

rack racks racking racked no-table-tags glossary rackest rackedst racketh

Etymology

From Middle English rakke, rekke, from Middle Dutch rac, recke, rec (Dutch rek), see rekken.

Synonyms

luggage rack rack block assets babylons balloons baps badonkers bangers bazongas bazookas bazoombas bazooms bewbs bobas booba boobage boobs boobers boobies boosies bosom breasts breasticles breasties bristols bubby bubs bust calcium cannons cans cantaloupes casabas charlies chebs chesticles chest melons chichis coconuts diddy ding-dongs dirty pillows double Ds dugs frontage front bumpers funbags gazongas girls globes grapefruits headlights honkers hooters itty-bittys jahoobies jigglies jubblies jugs kazooms knockers

Derived words

armrack at rack and manger autorack barbell rack bicycle rack bike rack birack bomb rack bookrack buy the rack cheese rack clothes rack coat-rack coatrack coat rack cycle rack dish rack dishrack drying rack Eurorack gunrack hatrack hat-rack hat rack hayrack hitchrack hitch rack hit the rack hot rack live at rack and manger luggage rack meat rack multirack nerve-rack nerve rack off-the-rack on the rack out of rack oven rack penrack pipe rack power rack rack and pinion rack and snail rackarock rackboard rackful rack jobber rackless racklike rackmaster rackmount rack-mountable rack-mounted rackne rackoid rack railway rack rate rack rent rack-rent
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