RACK

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

4. isim A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
5. isim A bunk.

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

6. isim Sleep.

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

7. isim A distaff.
8. isim 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.

   “Just beyond that station the first step is encountered and the rack resorted to, taking the line on a gradient of 1 in 9 over a steeply inclined bridge and through a spiral tunnel.”

9. isim 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. isim 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. isim A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
12. isim A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.

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

13. isim A bone of a horse.

    “The Par quadratum […] Their Use is to bend the Racks of the Loins with a right Motion forward or downward, but when one only acts, it draws the Loins to one Side somewhat downwards.”

14. isim A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
15. isim A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
16. isim A woman's breasts.
17. isim A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.

    “rappel rack”

18. isim 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.”

19. isim A grate on which bacon is laid.
20. isim A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
21. fiil To place in or hang on a rack.
22. fiil To torture (someone) on the rack.

    “He was racked and miserably tormented.”

23. fiil To cause (someone) to suffer pain.

    “Vaunting aloud but racked with deep despair.”

24. fiil To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.

    “Try what my credit can in Venice do; / That shall be racked even to the uttermost.”

25. fiil To alternately concatenate two words to magical effect.

    “Foꝛ when we heare one racke the name of God,/Abiure the ſcriptures, and his Sauiour Chꝛiſt...”

26. fiil To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
27. fiil To strike in the testicles.
28. fiil To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.

    “He racked three boxes of gum!”

29. fiil To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
30. fiil To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.