English Dictionary

rack

/ɹæk/

noun

A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other / Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.

I need to buy a new rack for my books.

意味（1）

A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other

意味（2）

Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.

意味（3）

(historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.

Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack, / Where men enforced do speak anything.

意味（4）

(nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.

意味（5）

(nautical, slang) A bunk.

Chief Stevens approached my rack and repeatedly ordered me to vacate my rack and report to the working party.

意味（6）

(nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.

Do I have to do this now? Like, I really need to get some rack.

意味（7）

A distaff.

意味（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.

The ladder-type Riggenbach rack is the one in use on both systems.

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（11）

A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).

意味（12）

A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.

I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday.

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(billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.

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(slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.

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(climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.

rappel rack

意味（16）

(climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.

I used almost a full rack on the second pitch.

意味（17）

A grate on which bacon is laid.

意味（18）

(algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.

意味（19）

(Britain, slang) A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime