Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word RACK

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Definitions of RACK

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 distaff.
4. A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
5. A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
6. A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
7. A grate on which bacon is laid.
8. To place in or hang on a rack.
9. To torture (someone) on the rack.
10. To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
11. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
12. A fast amble.
13. To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
14. To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
15. (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
16. (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
17. (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
18. (nautical, slang) A bunk.
19. (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
20. (mechanical engineering, rail) 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.
21. (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.
22. (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
23. (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
24. (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
25. (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
26. (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
27. (slang) A thousand, especially if proceeds of a crime.
28. (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
29. (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
30. (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
31. (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
32. (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
33. (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
34. (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
35. (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
36. (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
37. (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
38. (obsolete) A wreck; destruction.
39. (obsolete) A young rabbit, or its skin.
40. Alternative form of arak.
41. (BDSM) Initialism of risk-aware consensual kink.

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Examples of Using RACK in a Sentence

• It consisted of several Eurocard PCB's with DIN 41612 connectors, and a backplane all based on a 19-inch rack configuration.
• Eurocard is an IEEE standard format for printed circuit board (PCB) cards that can be plugged together into a standard chassis which, in turn, can be mounted in a 19-inch rack.
• On 30 July 2010, Lysator began migrating to a new 3U home rack, increasing their available storage space from 700GB to 13TB.
• A 19-inch rack is a standardized frame or enclosure for mounting multiple electronic equipment modules.
• The lower stations of both the rack railway and the cable car can be reached by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya train from Barcelona's Plaça d'Espanya station.
• Each device in the relay rack would be represented by a symbol on the ladder diagram with connections between those devices shown.
• Described as "risk-aware consensual kink" (RACK), this code shows a preference for a style in which the individual responsibility of the involved parties is emphasized more strongly, with each participant being responsible for their own well-being.
• They include the Home Stake Oil and Gas Company Building, Mekasukey Academy, the Seminole Municipal Building, the Sinclair Loading Rack, Strother Memorial Chapel, and the W.
• In BDSM, edgeplay is a subjective term for activity (sexual or mentally manipulative) that may challenge the conventional safe, sane and consensual ("SSC") scheme; if one is aware of the risks and consequences and is willing to accept them, then the activity is considered risk-aware consensual kink ("RACK").
• A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway) is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the running rails.
• At NAB 2010, NewTek introduced TriCaster TCXD850, a 22-channel high-definition model in a rack mount form factor.
• RACK, the former NASDAQ ticker symbol for Silicon Graphics International, formerly called Rackable Systems.
• This is usually a simple valve (traditionally, a flat panel (paddle) lifted by manually winding a rack and pinion mechanism) which allows water to drain into or out of the chamber.
• Lawless was known to tie semi-naked models to a torture rack, and to also hurl raw meat into the audience.
• Risk-aware consensual kink (RACK, also risk-accepted consensual kink) is an acronym used by some of the BDSM community to describe a philosophical view that is generally permissive of certain risky sexual behaviors, as long as the participants are fully aware of the risks.
• STS-107 carried the SPACEHAB Research Double Module (RDM) on its inaugural flight, the Freestar experiment (mounted on a Hitchhiker Program rack), and the Extended Duration Orbiter pallet.
• The French version of this game is called saute-mouton (literally "leapsheep"), and the Romanian is called capra ("mounting rack" or "goat").
• In addition to Storm Linux, the company also produced a personal firewall, and began development of a customized rack mount server and dedicated VPN appliance.
• When a rack of wine topples over in the 1932 Hollywood film Downstairs, the wine cellar caretaker Otto (Otto Hoffman) laments a broken bottle of , very likely to be a subtle joke.
• Rackmount KVM, a computer input/output device offering the combination of a keyboard, video monitor and mouse (pointing device), typically rack mounted.

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