rack : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a rack for parking bicycles
  

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• noun a device on an aircraft for carrying bombs
  

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• a rack or frame for holding and displaying business or visiting card.

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• noun a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats
  coatrack; hatrack.
  

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• noun a rack for holding dishes as dishwater drains off of them
  

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• noun a rack used primarily to display dresses for sale in a store
  

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• noun carrier for holding luggage above the seats of a train or on top of a car
  luggage rack.
  

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• noun a rack for displaying magazines
  

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• (Mach.), a contrivance for converting continuous circular motion into reciprocating rectilinear motion, by means of a rack and pinion, as in the mangle. The pinion is held to the rack by a groove in such a manner that it passes alternately from one side of the rack to the other, and thus gives motion to it in opposite directions, according to the side in which its teeth are engaged.

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• noun a light stand for holding sheets of printed music
  music stand.
  

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• adjective satellite extremely irritating to the nerves
  trying; stressful; nerve-wracking.
  
  • nerve-racking noise
  • the stressful days before a war
  • a trying day at the office

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• adjective satellite (especially of clothing) made in standard sizes and available from merchandise in stock
  ready-to-wear; off-the-shelf; off-the-peg.
  
  • a ready-made jacket
  • ready-to-wear clothes

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• noun a rack for holding a smoker's pipes
  

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• noun a rack for holding plates to dry after they have been washed
  

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• noun a wheel gear (the pinion) meshes with a toothed rack; converts rotary to reciprocating motion (and vice versa)
  

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• destruction; utter ruin. Colloq.

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• . (Naut.) See def. 1 (f), above.

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• a lashing or binding where the rope is tightened, and held tight by the use of a small stick of wood twisted around.

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• noun a roast of the rib section of lamb
  crown roast.
  

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• (Railroads), a toothed rack, laid as a rail, to afford a hold for teeth on the driving wheel of locomotive for climbing steep gradients, as in ascending a mountain.

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• noun railway for steep mountains; a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction
  cog railway.
  

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• noun an extortionate rent
  

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• a saw having wide teeth.

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• the stick used in a rack lashing.

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• verb gain points in a game
  tally; score; hit.
  
  • The home team scored many times
  • He hit a home run
  • He hit .300 in the past season
• verb place in a rack
  
  • rack pool balls
• verb defeat thoroughly
  pip; worst; whip; mop up.
  
  • He mopped up the floor with his opponents
• verb supply a rack with feed for (horses or other animals)
  

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• wine cleansed and drawn from the lees. Cowell.

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Rack"-rent` noun

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1. A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent. Blackstone.

Rack"-rent` transitive verb

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1. To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant.

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Rack"-rent`er noun

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1. One who is subjected to playing rack-rent.
2. One who exacts rack-rent.

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• noun carrier for holding luggage above the seats of a train or on top of a car
  luggage rack.
  

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• noun a carrier for holding skis on top of a vehicle
  

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• noun a rack for displaying containers filled with spices
  

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• noun a rack for storing ties
  

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• to suffer torture, physical or mental.

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• to perish; to be destroyed. Colloq. "All goes to rack." Pepys.

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• to live on the best at another's expense. Colloq.

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• to subject to torture; to torment.

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• to exert them to the utmost for the purpose of accomplishing something.

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• a small rack or stand for a table, having partitions for holding slices of dry toast.

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• noun a rack consisting of one or more bars on which towels can be hung
  towel horse.
  

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