rack
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Danh từ
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.
Đồng nghĩa: luggage rack
- 3.
(historical)A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- 4.
(nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
Đồng nghĩa: rack block
- 5.
(especially, slang)(slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
- 6.
(broadly, slang, uncountable)(nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- 7.
A distaff.
- 8.
(mechanical engineering, rail transport) 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.
(mechanical engineering) 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.
I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday.
Động từ
verb- 1.
To place in or hang on a rack.
- 2.
To torture (someone) on the rack.
- 3.
To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
Đồng nghĩa: torment, torture, ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, anguish, dere, excruciate, hurt, irritate, pang, pine, rack, throe, torment, torture, wring
- 4.
(figuratively)(figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- 5.
(obsolete)(obsolete, occult) To alternately concatenate two words to magical effect.
- 6.
(billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
Đồng nghĩa: rack up
- 7.
(slang, transitive)To strike in the testicles.
- 8.
(slang)To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
He racked three boxes of gum!
- 9.
(broadly)(by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
Đồng nghĩa: steal
- 10.
(firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- 11.
(firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- 12.
(mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
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ine-pro From Middle English rakke, rekke, from Middle Dutch rac, recke, rec (rek), see rekken.