| 单词 | rack |
| 释义 | rack (once / 514 pages) 1nv 2nv 3n 4n 5nv 6v 7v A rack is a device meant to hold something, or several things. A coat rack has hooks for hanging coats, and a magazine rack has shelves or slots to hold magazines. In a store, racks hold and display items for sale (like clothes racks and book racks), while in your house you have racks for storing things (a spice rack), or drying them (in the case of a towel rack). If you rack, or wrack, your brain, it means you think extra hard;and when something goes "to rack and ruin," it becomes old and decrepit, or falls apart. WORD FAMILYrack: racked, racker, racking, racks+/racker: rackers/racking: rackingly USAGE EXAMPLESThe overtime racked up by Community Colleges of Spokane alone is more than $500,000 — and growing. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) This is followed by macaroni and cheese, BBQ beans and a rack of ribs that is pretty much larger than I am. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) “Sing,” the latest collaboration between Illumination and Universal, racked up $41.4 million during its second weekend in theaters. Time(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n framework for holding objects Hypo|Hyper barbecue, barbeque a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors bicycle racka rack for parking bicycles carriera rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like coat rack, coatrack, hatracka rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats dish racka rack for holding dishes as dishwater drains off of them hayracka rack that holds hay for feeding livestock pipe racka rack for holding a smoker's pipes plate racka rack for holding plates to dry after they have been washed tie racka rack for storing ties toastracka rack for holding slices of toast towel horse, towel racka rack consisting of one or more bars on which towels can be hung bomb racka device on an aircraft for carrying bombs luggage carriercarrier (as behind a bicycle seat) for luggage luggage rack, roof rackcarrier for holding luggage above the seats of a train or on top of a car ski racka carrier for holding skis on top of a vehicle framework a structure supporting or containing something 2n a support for displaying various articles the newspapers were arranged on a rack Syn|Hypo|Hyper stand bier a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial cruet-standa stand for cruets containing various condiments dress racka rack used primarily to display dresses for sale in a store magazine racka rack for displaying magazines music rack, music standa light stand for holding sheets of printed music spice racka rack for displaying containers filled with spices tripoda three-legged rack used for support camera tripoda tripod used to support a camera catafalquea decorated bier on which a coffin rests in state during a funeral easelan upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas) support any device that bears the weight of another thing 3v work on a rack rack leather Hyper process, work, work on shape, form, or improve a material 4v put on a rack and pinion rack a camera Hyper put to work, work cause to work 5v seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block 2Hyper clutch, prehend, seize take hold of; grab 1n an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims Syn|Hyper wheel instrument of torture an instrument of punishment designed and used to inflict torture on the condemned person 2n a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body Hyper torture, torturing the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason 3v torture on the rack Hyper excruciate, torment, torture subject to torture 4v stretch to the limits rack one's brains Hyper strain, stress, try test the limits of 5v torment emotionally or mentally Syn|Hyper excruciate, torment, torture anguish, hurt, pain cause emotional anguish or make miserable 6v obtain by coercion or intimidation 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper extort, gouge, squeeze, wring bleed get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge rip off; ask an unreasonable price n the destruction or collapse of something 4Syn|Hyper wrack demolition, destruction, wipeout an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something n rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton 5Hypo|Hyper crown roast, rack of lamb a roast of the rib section of lamb cut, cut of meat a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass 1n a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately Syn|Hyper single-foot gait a horse's manner of moving 2v go at a rack 6Syn|Hyper single-foot pace go at a pace 1v fly in high wind Hyper fly, wing travel through the air; be airborne 2v run before a gale 7Syn|Hyper scud sail travel on water propelled by wind v draw off from the lees rack wine Hyper draw, take out take liquid out of a container or well |
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