rack
A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the otherA series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
» That car has a roof rack.
У той машины есть багажник на крыше.
Meaning
25 sensesA series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
Regal
этаже́ркаetažérka, стелла́жstelláž, по́лкаpólka
Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
ве́шалкаvéšalka
a support for displaying or holding various articles
(historical)A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
Streckbank
ды́баdýba
A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
(especially, slang)A bunk.
(broadly, slang, uncountable)Sleep.
A distaff.
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.
Holonym: rack and pinion
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.
A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday.
Examples
227 sentencesThat car has a roof rack.
ruУ той машины есть багажник на крыше.
I racked my brains for an answer.
ruЯ ломал голову в поисках ответа.
Tom locked his bike to the bike rack.
Tom buys all his clothes right off the rack.
Tom bought a new towel rack for the kitchen.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 3
By meaning 3
Origin
From Middle English rakke, rekke, from Middle Dutch rac, recke, rec (Dutch rek), see rekkeFrom Middle English rakke, rekke, from Middle Dutch rac, recke, rec (Dutch rek), see rekken.
From Middle English reken, from Old Norse reka (“to be drifted, tost”)
See rack (“that which stretches”), or rock (verb).
Uncertain. Perhaps a contraction of rabbock, an alteration ( + -ock) of rabbit.
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Forms
plural: racks| Singular | rack |
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uncountable
Synonyms
104 synonyms- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately:single-foot
- a support for displaying or holding various articles:stand
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims:wheel
- the destruction or collapse of something:wrack
Word family
65 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable