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Definition: Rack |
RackNoun1. Framework for holding objects. 2. Rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton. 3. The destruction or collapse of something; "wrack and ruin". 4. An instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims. 5. A support for displaying various articles; "the newspapers were arranged on a rack". 6. A rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately. Verb1. Go at a rack, as of horses. 2. Rack one's brains. 3. Work by a rack and pinion or worm so as to extend or contract; "rack a camera". 4. Obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss". 5. Go at a rack, of horses. 6. Run before a gale. 7. Fly in high wind. 8. Draw off from the lees, as of wine. 9. Torment emotionally or mentally. 10. : work on a rack, of materials such as leather. 11. : seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block. 12. : torture on the rack. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rack" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Satire | RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Computing | A mechanical part that holds and connects printed circuit boards in a bay or cabinet. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a rack, denotes the uncertainty of the outcome of some engagement which gives you much anxious thought. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | Framework inside aircraft for accomodation of avionic equipment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | A standardized steel rack designed to hold 19-inch panels of various heights, on which are mounted radio receivers, amplifiers, and other units of electronic equipment. Also called rack. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A narrow forest track maintained essentially for extraction of smaller timber. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | The lateral movement of the needle-bed on a flat knitting machine or the angular displacement of dial relative to cylinder on a circular machine. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An arbitrary number of motions of the machine, used as a basis for the calculation of machine speed, productivity, and lace quality. Leavers rack, 1920 motions; furnishing rack 720 full motions; bobbinet rack, 240 holes(12 or 20 motions per hole); warp rack, 480 motions. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Rack A flying scud, drifting clouds. (Icelandic, rek, drift; verb, recka, to drive.) "The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And ... leave not a rack behind." Shakespeare: Tempest, iv. 1. Rack. The instrument of torture so called was a frame in which a man was fastened, and his arms and legs were stretched till the body was lifted by the tension several inches from the floor. Not unfrequently the limbs were forced thereby out of their sockets. Coke says that the rack was first introduced into the Tower by the Duke of Exeter, constable of the Tower, in 1447, whence it was called the "Duke of Exeter's daughter." (Dutch, rak; verb, rakken, to stretch: Danish, rag; Anglo-Saxon, reac. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | Gear with teeth spaced along a straight line, and suitable for straight-line motion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. An inclined trough for washing or separating ore b. A toothed or notched drill-base-slide and meshing-gear pinion used to facilitate the moving of a drill to clear the borehole when hoisting or lowering the drill string; generally limited to larger, skid-mounted machines c. A framework of wood or metal for the orderly storage of core, pipe rods, etc., in a horizontal position d. A tilting table on which concentrates are separated from the passing flow of finely ground pulp, the system being arranged to be periodically self-flushing e. A screen composed of parallel bars to catch floating debris f. In electroplating, a frame used for suspending and conducting currentto one or more cathodes during electrodeposition. (references) |
Occupations | The standard unit of measure for lace. It is the amount of lace woven by 1,920 single motions of loom. (references) |
Physics | Parts of the frame of an optic, into which the rings are fitted. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A framework or structure on which apparatus is mounted, usually by means of shelves, or mounting plates. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | A screen composed of parallel bars, either vertical or inclined, placed in a waterway to catch debris. The screenings may be raked from it. Also called --. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Breasts. (references) |
Transportation | Framework inside aircraft for the accommodation of passengers'belongings. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The rack is a torture device consisting of a rectangular frame, usually wooden, with a roller at one end. The victim's feet are bound to one end of the frame, and their wrists are tied to ropes attached to the roller. As the interrogation progresses, a handle and ratchet attached to the roller may be used to increase the tension on the ropes by degrees, which quickly becomes excruciatingly painful as the victim's joints slowly dislocate. Eventually, if the application of the rack is continued, the victim's limbs are ripped right off.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rack."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A Rack and Pinion is a pair of gears which convert rotational motion into linear motion. The circular pinion engages teeth on a flat bar - the rack. Rotational motion applied to the pinion will cause the rack to move to the side, up to the limit of its travel.
The rack and pinion arrangement is commonly found in the steering mechanisms of carss or other wheeled, steered vehicles.
For rack and pinion railways see Cog railway
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rack and pinion."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A risk-aware consensual kink (RACK) is any of several phrases used by portions of the BDSM community to describe themselves and their philosophies. Note: This term is sometimes also seen as risk-accepted consensual kink."Risk-aware consensual kink" is a term that was coined in reaction to current dissatisfaction within the BDSM community regarding the political issues (internal and external) surrounding the "safe, sane and consensual" ethos that many people defines consensual BDSM. Specifically, RACK is intended to embrace edgeplay and play that is engaged in without safewords.
RACK is intended as a philosophy, and does not specifically refer to any particular type of play or activity.
Note: Please read the RISK DISCLAIMER
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Risk-aware consensual kink."
Synonyms: RackSynonyms: stand (n), wheel (n), wrack (n), excruciate (v), extort (v), gouge (v), scud (v), single-foot (v), torment (v), torture (v), wring (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bubble | Cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser; scud, messenger, rack, nimbus; cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus; cirrostratus, cumulostratus; cirrocumulus; mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky; curl cloud; frost smoke; thunderhead. |
Cleanness | Wash, lave, launder, buck; absterge, deterge; decrassify; clear, purify; depurate, despumate, defecate; purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack; filter, filtrate; drain, strain. |
Pain | Wring, harrow, torment, torture; bullyrag; put to the rack, put to the question; break on the wheel, rack, scarify; cruciate, crucify; convulse, agonize; barb the dart; plant a dagger in the breast, plant a thorn in one's side. |
Physical Pain | Give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; cruciate, excruciate; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog. (punish); grate on the ear. (harsh sound). |
Anguish, agony; torment, torture; rack; cruciation, crucifixion; martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection. | |
Punishment | Lash, scaffold; (instrument of punishment); imprisonment; (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating;Verb: flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow; (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade. |
Receptacle | Chest, box, coffer, caddy, case, casket, pyx, pix, caisson, desk, bureau, reliquary; trunk, portmanteau, band-box, valise; grip, grip sack; skippet, vasculum; boot, imperial; vache; cage, manger, rack. |
Scourge | Triangle, wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel; chinese water torture. |
Support | Board, ledge, shelf, hob, bracket, trevet, trivet, arbor, rack; mantel, mantle piece, mantleshelf; slab, console; counter, dresser; flange, corbel; table, trestle; shoulder; perch; horse; easel, desk; clotheshorse, hatrack; retable; teapoy. |
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Crosswords: Rack |
| English words defined with "rack": barbecue, barbeque, bicycle rack ♦ Card rack, carrier, coatrack, Cratch ♦ dish rack, dress rack ♦ hatrack, Hawk's bill, hayrack ♦ magazine rack ♦ Penrack, Pin rail, pinion, pipe rack, Pitch circle, Pitch line, Pitch point, plate rack ♦ rachet, rack and pinion, Rack rail, Rack stick, rack up, Racked, racker, Racktail, Rackwork, ratch, ratchet ♦ single-foot, spice rack ♦ tie rack, To go to rack, To put to the rack, Toast rack, toastrack, towel horse, towel rack, tripod ♦ worm. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rack": lamp rack, LETOFF RACK ♦ miscellaneous apparatus rack ♦ Rack and Manger, RACK LOADER, RACK LOADER I, rack mountable, relay rack ♦ WINDUP RACK. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "rack": Rounce. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Rack" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Manx (rack ), Portuguese (rack). |
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Screenplays | They always choose the most intellectually devoid stuff on the rack. (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith) I don't even own a gun, let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire rack. What am I gonna do with a gun rack (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner) Nice rack! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) To recap those revisions: women are still worth 10 points more than men in all age brackets, but teenagers now rack up 40 points, and toddlers under 12 now rate a big 70 points (Death Race 2000; writing credit: Ib Melchior; Robert Thom) Immortality isn't everything the preachers rack it up to be. (Tuck Everlasting; writing credit: Jeffrey Lieber) | |
Lyrics | Blood rack barbed wire (21st CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN; performing artist: King Crimson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Rack (1956) Nice Rack 9 (2002) Shack & Benny VeggieTales: Rack (1995) Virgin on the Rack (1994) The Rack (1994) | |
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 | This photo taken in a lab is backlit with a rack of test tubes in the foreground. In the background is a profile of a technician holding up a test tube. The background has a green hue. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | A young, professional, asian man stands next to a rack of medical literature holding two booklets. See artwork: OCC-11. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | Birch Island beach showing gradation of sediment from coarse pebbles to sand as one moves up from the shoreline. Seaweed is evident along "rack" line showing furthest extent of normal high tide. Wildflower seeds float in on algae and take root helping preserve sediment. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | NSSL vehicle with computer for processing surface measurements. The video rack displays output from topside camera. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |
 | Tank rack and gazebo deck outside AQUARIUS. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | AQUARIUS tank rack and gazebo deck serves as the starting point for excursions. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Norm Vigil, Northwest Field Team Leader and David Manzanares, RC&D Coordinator inspecting a trash rack to prevent debris from the Los Alamos fire from clogging roadway culvert. New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | Trash rack to prevent debris from the Los Alamos fire from clogging roadway culvert. New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | Joyce Watkins loads quail eggs onto a rack after cleaning and checking them. Credit: USDA. |  | A migrant Mexican laboror carries a rack of dried tobacco leaves from a curing barn in the Danville, VA. Credit: USDA. |
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| "Wine rack" by Kevin Hillabolt Commentary: "A picture of our dusty wine rack." | "Paper rack" by Julia Eisenberg Commentary: "Paper rack." |
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Oscar Wilde | In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. |
Robert Burton | [Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin [St. Augustine], still going round as in a ring. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | An airing in the Hartfield carriage would have been the rack, and arrowroot from the Hartfield storeroom must have been poison |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | When it gets cool, take the rack outa the oven |
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Health | After each use, the brush should be rinsed well with cold water, shaken thoroughly, and hung to dry on the toothbrush rack. Disposable paper cups should be used for rinsing out the mouth. (references) | |
Travel | Mexico | Rack rates are comparable to most major U.S. cities, ranging from $200 to $500 per night. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Rack" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.66% of the time. "Rack" is used about 612 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.66% | 567 | 11,100 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.06% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.28% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 612 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "rack" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rack | Last name | 170 | 42,421 |
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Expressions using "rack": baggage rack ♦ bar rack ♦ be on the rack ♦ bicycle rack ♦ bomb rack ♦ bottle rack ♦ bottles rack ♦ car rack ♦ Card rack ♦ clothes rack ♦ coat rack ♦ corresponding rack ♦ dish rack ♦ disk storage rack ♦ draining rack ♦ dress rack ♦ drying rack ♦ generating rack ♦ go to rack and ruin ♦ hat rack ♦ hay rack ♦ launching rack ♦ luggage rack ♦ magazine rack ♦ Mangle rack ♦ miscellaneous apparatus rack ♦ music rack ♦ off the rack ♦ overhead luggage rack ♦ pin rack ♦ pipe rack ♦ plate rack ♦ put smb. on the rack ♦ put to the rack ♦ rack and pinion ♦ rack and ruin ♦ rack block ♦ rack for galoshes ♦ rack lashing ♦ rack marks ♦ rack mount ♦ rack mountable ♦ rack of lamb ♦ rack off ♦ rack one's brain ♦ rack one's brains ♦ rack one's brains over ♦ rack rail ♦ rack railway ♦ rack rent ♦ rack saw ♦ rack stick ♦ rack up ♦ rack vintage ♦ rack wheel ♦ radio rack ♦ relay rack ♦ roof rack ♦ shoe rack ♦ ski rack ♦ spice rack ♦ tie rack ♦ To be on the rack ♦ To go to rack ♦ To live at rack and manger ♦ To put to the rack ♦ To rack one's brains ♦ to rack one's brains out ♦ to rack one's wits ♦ toast rack ♦ towel rack. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "rack": rack-and-pinion, rack-guided, rack-mount, rack-mountable, rack-mounted, rack-mounting, rack-mounts, rack-rail, Rack-rent, Rack-renter, rack-renting, rack-rents, rack-supported. | |
Ending with "rack": in-rack, letter-rack, roof-rack. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bike rack | 5,729 | truck rack | 468 |
tire rack | 4,713 | garment rack | 441 |
rate my rack | 3,138 | rack mount server | 441 |
flash rack | 2,353 | computer rack | 422 |
wine rack | 2,176 | yakima rack | 404 |
rack | 1,746 | coat rack | 397 |
baker rack | 1,450 | wakeboard rack | 377 |
roof rack | 960 | shoes rack | 368 |
pot rack | 764 | pallet rack | 351 |
rack mount computer | 684 | quilt rack | 337 |
bicycle rack | 634 | storage rack | 337 |
rack system | 600 | tie rack | 325 |
spice rack | 587 | luggage rack | 318 |
rack mount | 581 | audio rack | 304 |
rack room shoes | 578 | plate rack | 300 |
cd rack | 564 | nice rack | 288 |
nordstrom rack | 523 | server rack | 256 |
magazine rack | 521 | towel rack | 256 |
car rack | 513 | the tire rack.com | 248 |
ladder rack | 478 | gun rack | 234 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "rack"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | arak (arrack). (various references) | |
Albanian | re të hallakatura, raft (cupboard, press, shelf), rrënim (desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, dissolution, downfall, havoc, ravage, ruin), rrotë (boob, dope, moron, rag-wheel, spool, wheel), detyroj (bind, bully, coerce, compel, constrain, dragoon, enforce, entail, force, have, haze, impel, keep, make, move, obligate, oblige, outface, pin down, press, push, screw, strong arm, tie), galop (gallop, galop), i jap sanë kafshëve, këmbalec (climber, coach box, stilt, trestle), kornizë (case, casing, cornice, frame, Mount, mounting, picture frame, sash, stretcher), kremalier, kremastar (rail), mbështetëse (backrest, bearer, bracket, buttress, console, crutch, prop, reinforcement, rest, saddle, shore, stanchion, stand, support, supporter), mundoj (agonize, beat, crucify, drive, harass, Harrow, obsess, rankle, sweat, tantalize, torment, torture, trouble, weigh down, wrack), mundim (cross, effort, excruciation, hardship, intension, martyrdom, pain, sweat, torment, torture, trouble), trinë (drag, instep, trellis), varëse rrobash (clothes hanger, clothes peg, clothes-horse, valet), vuajtje (affliction, agony, anguish, cross, distress, dolor, dolour, gyp, hardship, martyrdom, misery, pain, suffering, torment, tribulation), vë në trinë, vë në raft (shelve), skarë (barbecue, broiler, fire-bar, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grill, grillage), stendë (board, hoarding, scute, scutum, stall, stand up), torturë (excruciation, heat, torment, torture), torturoj (crucify, excruciate, plague, rankle, torture, wrack), mbajtëse (abutment, brace, bracket, cleat, hold, holder, holdfast, hook, keeper, Mount, pendant, retainer, stand, standard, support, supporter, tenter). (various references) | |
Arabic | عذب بالمخلعة, ربع الخروف, راك ملابس, رف (bracket, ledge, tablet), رف الشنط, رف الخضارات, رف الصحون, خراب (bane, decay, demolition, desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, havoc, perdition, ravage, ruin, ruination, undoing, wrack, wreck, wreckage), دمار (desolation, destruction, devastation, havoc, ruin, ruination, subversion, wrack, wreck), عذب (agonize, agreeable, bedevil, benign, charming, chasten, crucify, devil, dulcet, freshen, grilled, harrow, harry, hearty, leisurely, liquid, murder, palmy, persecute, pillory, plague, quiet, rack one's brains, scourge, silken, silky, sleek, smite, smooth, smooth spoken, soft, suave, sweet, sympathetic, tantalize, tease, tender, torment, torture, wrench, wring), مسند الأسلحة, حاجز حظيرة, حمالة (brace, hand-barrow), مخلعة, مخلعة أداة تعذيب, مصدر ألم, معلاق القدر, معلف للدواب, صندوق (ark, bin, box, case, chest, container, crate, fund, hutch, kitty, locker, receiver, till). (various references) | |
Asturian | almariu roperu (coat rack). (various references) | |
Bemba | ukwakukobeka amakoti (coat rack). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | повишавам (advance, aggrandize, elevate, enhance, erect, heighten, increase, jump, key up, prefer, promote, put up, raise, up), измъчвам (afflict, agonize, ail, anguish, crucify, excruciate, fester, harass, lacerate, martyr, martyrize, play up, prey, push, rankle, ride, scourge, smite, torture, try, victimize, weigh on), багажник (boot, luggage carrier, trunk), пресилвам (force, overstate, overstrain, overtax, overtrain, strain, stretch, supercharge), придвижвам със зъбна рейка, поставям на стойка, зъбна рейка, поставка (base, stand, support), напрягам (bend, call forth, exert, hump, intensify, overstrain, strain, string up, tense), полица (bill, bill of exchange, exchange, note, paper, shelf, tier), поилка, изцеждам (squeeze, strain, wring), изтощавам (bucket, crock, deplete, distress, do in, emaciate, exhaust, extend, fag, farm out, fatigue, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, kill, leech, overcrop, overwork, play out, poop, prostrate, pump, pump out, punish, reduce, run down, sew up, spend, tire out, tucker, waste), изтезаване (sweating), изтезавам (torment, torture, wring), поставям на рамка, разтягам (expand, strain, stretch), стойка (attitude, bipod, carriage, crutch, deportment, holder, leg, pier, pillar, port, post, posture, rest, riser, set, stand, tree), решетка (grate, grating, grid, gridiron, guard, lathing, lattice), регал, реал, рафт (shelf, tier), арак (arrack), разруха (ruin, ruination, wrack), ясла (crib, manger), разпъвам (pitch, stretch), хранилка (crib, feeding trough), тормозя (badger, bait, bedevil, bully, chivy, excruciate, fret, harass, hunt down, jade, murder, persecute, pester, pick on, plague, play up, prey, push, put upon, rag, ride, scourge, worry), гребен (comb, crest, edge, heckle, ridge, ripple, screw), окачалка, нося се (be rife, bound, drift, float, hover, resound, ride, roll, sail, sashay, skim, skitter, slip, spin along, sweep, wear, wing), рамка (casing, flake, frame, framework, holder, hoop, pelmet, rim, setting). (various references) | |
Cebuano | sab-itanan ug mga kalupo (coat rack). (various references) | |
Chinese | 机架. (various references) | |
Czech | regál (bookshelf, shelf, stand), zahrádka (allotment, yard), vìšák (clothes' peg, coat hook, peg, suspender), utiskovat (oppress, repress, tyrannize), trápit (afflict, agonize, ail, bait, beset, bother, discommode, disgruntle, grieve, nag, pain, pester, plague, pother, tantalize, torment, torture, trouble, vex, worry), stojan (easel, horse, lamp holder, post, stand), stáèet, police (shelf), nosiè (bearer, bracket, carrier, porter), natahovat (wind up), natáhnout na skřipec, napínat (tantalize), lešení (scaffold, scaffolding, stage), hrazda. (various references) | |
Danish | raekke, rack (chassis, shog), udstyrshylde (equipment shelf), tandstang (gear, gear-rack, toothed rack), stikspor (dray-road, rackway, road, skidding road, snig track, timber slide, travois road), stel (chassis, cradle, frame, framework, ground, tubular support stays), stativ (craddle, cradle, multilevel tripod, stand, tripod, variable height craddle), sprosse, hoehaek (feeding rack, hay rack, stable feeding rack, straw rack), halmhaek (feeding rack, hay rack, stable feeding rack, straw rack), haek (feeding rack, fender, hay rack, hurdle, stable feeding rack, straw rack), forskydning (accident, cross-joint, discomposition, dislocation, displacement, disturbance, key offset, knocking out, mismatch, offset, shear, shearing, shift, shog, variation), foderhaek (feeding rack, hay rack, stable feeding rack, straw rack), chassis (bed, chassis, frame), baas (feeding rack, hay rack, stable feeding rack, straw rack). (various references) | |
Dutch | ruif (equipment shelf), rek (bench, cabinet, easel, tressle, workbench), rijstbrandewijn, rýstbrandewýn (arrack), zaag (saw), verzet (absence of mind, distraction, diversion, resistance), uitsleeppad (rackway, road, skidding road, snig track, travois road), tandstang (diving key, gear, gear-rack, plunger, sliding key), tandheugel (bolt, catch, click, gear-rack, latch, marionette, pawl, pin, rack element, ratchet, toothed rack), tafel (index, table, tablet, tabulation), kolom (column, pillar), heugel (toothed rack), bagageruimte (trunk), bagagerek (baggage rack), arak (arrack). (various references) | |
Esperanto | arako (arrack). (various references) | |
Faeroese | hugsa djúpt (meditate, puzzle over, rack one's brains, think to oneself), grunda (meditate, puzzle over, rack one's brains, think to oneself), frakkastativ (coat rack), brýggja høvur (puzzle over, rack one's brains). (various references) | |
Farsi | چنگک جالباسی , نوک تیز (Acute, Picked, Pungent, Taper), نوعی الت شکنجه مرکب ازچندسیخ کردن , چرخ دنده دار, عذاب دادن (Agonize, Grill, Lacerate, Lug, Put, Rankle, Torment, Torture), جاکلاهی , رنج بردن (Suffer, Toil, Travail), روی چنگک گذاردن لباس وغیره , شکنجه (Torment, Torture), باربند, بشدت کشیدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | teline (frame, stand). (various references) | |
French | râtelier (feeding rack, fife rail, hay rack, pin rail, stable feeding rack, straw rack), grille (bar rack). (various references) | |
Frisian | kapstôk (coat rack). (various references) | |
German | Zahnstange (gear rack), Gestell (bay, bench, chassis, clothes dryer, easel, frame, landing gear, stand, tressle, trestle, undercarriage, workbench), Regal (regal, shelf, shelves), Raufe (hay rack), Folterbank. (various references) | |
Greek | σχάρα (broiler, grate, grid, gridiron, grill), ράφι (shelf), βασανιστήριο (torment, torture), φάτνη (crib, manger, stall). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתלה (sling, suspension, tab), מדף (ledge, plank, shelf, tab, tray), מגוד (hanger frame), קרס (clasp, hook, stud), פס משונן, כונן (drive), דפופה (bookcase), סורג (grid, grille, latticework). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ruhafogas (clothes peg, coat-stand, hat stand, hat-rack, peg), romlás (addlement, bane, decadence, decadency, decay, declension, deterioration, failure, perdition, ruin, undoing, wreck, wrecking), poggyásztartó (boot, luggage-rack). (various references) | |
Icelandic | standur (arrack), grind (arrack). (various references) | |
Indonesian | para-para, ancak (shelf), ampaian (clothes rack, clothesline). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | nivingavik (coat rack). (various references) | |
Italian | scaffale (bookcase, Scaffale, shelf), rastrelliera (hayrack), cremagliera (toothed rack), cavalletto (easel, gantry, gauntry, trestle, tripod). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 棚 (shelves). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たな (shelves), ラック (ruck), か (addition, ancient Chinese weapon, article counter, beautiful, counter for chapters, department, excellent, good, increase, mosquito, passable, provisional, question mark, section, tentative, unit of equipment), だい (brotherly affection, charge, cost, faithful service to those older, ordinal, price, stand, subject, support, table, theme, title, topic, younger brother). (various references) | |
Korean | 선반 (lathe, ledge, mill, Mills, shelf, Shelves). (various references) | |
Macedonian | orman (coat rack). (various references) | |
Malay | kacang (arrack, bean). (various references) | |
Manx | sheeyneyder (expander, lengthener, prolonger, reacher, stretcher), rack, latt (ceiling rack, lath), crib, cratch (crib, manger), carree (flying scud, scud). (various references) | |
Norwegian | gruble (puzzle over, rack one's brains). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | grade de manjedoura (heck), cremalheira (ratchet). (various references) | |
Provencal | pòrtamantèl (coat rack). (various references) | |
Romanian | roatã (circle, ring, spinning wheel, wheel), nori mici risipiţi de vânt, chin (agony, anguish, gnawing, hurt, laceration, moil, ordeal, pain, pang, torment, torture, trouble, worriment), chinui (agonize, bait, bore, drudge, fester, grill, harass, Harrow, Harry, lacerate, martyr, martyrize, mortify, overdrive, persecute, pinch, plague, prey, prick, slave, tantalize, torment, torture, trouble, try, worry, wring), cuier (hal peg, hallstand, hanger, hanging, hat stand, peg, rail, stand), grãtar (grate, grid, gridiron, grill, roast), grilaj (grate, grid, gridiron, grill, grille, rail, railing), caznã (agony, efforts, labor, labour, moil, question, torment, torture), munci (do, endeavor, endeavour, labor, labour, suffer, till, toil, torment, torture, work), tortura (bedevil, excruciate, gnaw, grill, Harrow, lacerate, tantalize, torture, wring), poliţã (bill of exchange, draft, shelf), portbagaj (carrier, luggage carrier, trunk), pune în cuier, pune în portbagaj, scaun de torturã, istovi (crock, exhaust, fag, fag out, haze, jade, kill, knock off, try, wither). (various references) | |
Ruanda | ahobashira ama koti (coat rack). (various references) | |
Russian | вешалка (hanger, hatrack, peg, rail, tab), идти иноходью (ambled), измучить стойка, изнурять (emaciate, exhaust, macerate, pull down, tucker out), иноходь (amble), подставка (bracket, chock, horse-block, leg, mounting, pedestal, stand, stay, support, zarf), полка (berth, shelf), зубчатая рейка, дыба (strappado), напрягать (bend, exert, strain, stretch), стойка (cheek, column, dead set, handstand, leg, puncheon, soda fountain, stanchion, stand, standard, stilt, strut, tree, upright), класть на полку, класть в сетку, кормушка (cratch, feeding trough, manger), кремальера, разорение (desolation, devastation, ravage), рама (carriage, casing, chase, chassis, cradling, frame, gantry, mounting, rama, windowbox), решетка (bar, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grill, grillage, grille, lattice, latticework, trellis), стеллаж (shelving), мучить (agonize, bedevil, crucify, curse, drag, excruciate, fret, gnaw, grill, kill by inches, lacerate, martyrize, press upon, rankle, tantalize, trouble). (various references) | |
Samoan | talitali peleue (coat rack). (various references) | |
Scottish | racuis. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | razbijati, raf (shelf), vratina, uništenje (annihilation, blight, breaking up, extirpation, obliteration, undoing, wreckage), postolje (chassis, mount, pedestal, stand), mučiti (agonize, ail, beleaguer, excruciate, gnaw, harass, mortify, nettle, persecute, plague, rankle, tantalize, torment, torture), mreža za prtljag, moriti, lupati (bang, hit, knock, pound, tap, throb). (various references) | |
Spanish | rejilla (canework, grating, grid, grill, luggage rack), perchero, estantería (bookshelves, shelves, shelving), cremallera (slidefastener, zip, zip fastener, zipper). (various references) | |
Swedish | ställning (attitude, capacity, cradle, degree, gantry, horse, place, position, situation, stance, standing, state, status). (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่องทรมานดึงแขนขา, เขากวางคู่หนึ่ง, ชั้น (layer), ทำให้เจ็บปวด (grieve, hurt), การทำลาย (assassination, assault, rape), ขูดรีด. (various references) | |
Turkish | rahvan yürüyüş, rafa koymak (shelve), rafa kaldırmak (lay aside, lay by, shelve), raf (bracket, console, shelf), rüzgarda uçuşmak, kremayer, askıya asmak (hook up), şarabın süzülmesi, eziyet etmek (afflict, agonize, dragoon, excruciate, grind down, grind out, Harry, lead smb. a dance, maltreat, oppress, pain, persecute, torment, torture, tyrannize, tyrannize over, wrong), fıçıdan çekmek (draw, rack off), gererek işkence yapmak, gergi (spreader, stay, stretcher, tenter), germek (bag, distend, draw, hang on, lift, span, sprawl out, stay, strain, stretch, stretch out, string, tauten, tense, tighten, tighten up), işkence etmek (agonize, crucify, excruciate, grill, martyr, persecute, put to the torture, torment, torture), işkence sehpası, askı (clothes hanger, hanger, shoulder strap, suspender, suspensory), kirayı artırarak eziyet etmek, yemlik (crib, manger), parmaklık (balustrade, banisters, bar, boarding, fence, fencing, grating, grid, grill, grille, guardrail, hurdle, paling, palisade, rail, railing, trellis), uçan hafif bulut, uçuşan bulut (wrack), uzatmak (augment, belabor, belabour, continue, drag out, draw out, eke out, elongate, enlarge, extend, grow, hand, hold out, hold over, lengthen, outstretch, pad out, pass, prolong, protract, pull out, reach, renew, repose on, sidestep, span, spin out, sprawl out, spread, stand over, stick, stick out, stretch, stretch out, turn to, wiredraw), kirayı çok artırmak. (various references) | |
Turkmen | weюalka (r) (peg). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сітка (caul, lattice, net, netting, network, reticle, reticule, string bag, web), стелаж (bench, shelving, stack), розкладати на стелажі, решітка (grate, grill, grille), штатив (base), класти на сітку, годівниця (crib, nourice, wet nurse), вішалка (peg, portmanteau, shoulder, tab), експлуатувати (exploit, operate), підставка (chock, jamb, jambeau, mounting, skid, trivet), підпора (affluent, brace, bracket, chock, prop, upright), прив'язувати коня, полиця (bink, board, shelf). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiêu tan sự nghiệp, sự tra tấn (torture), sự hành hạ sự đau nhói, những đám mây trôi giạt tiêu tan thành mây khói, nỗi đau khổ (alleviation, distress, smart, tribulation, woe). (various references) | |
Welsh | rhestl, dirdynnu (torture), arteithio (torture), arteithglwyd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | gana. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cunei, cuneo, cuneos, cuneum, cuneus, tormentum, torqueo. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | racu. (various references) |
| Middle Dutch | 1100-1500 | rec. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | racquassure. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rack": racked, racker, rackers, racket, racketed, racketeer, racketeered, racketeering, racketeers, racketier, racketiest, racketing, rackets, rackety, rackful, rackfuls, racking, rackingly, rackle, racks, rackwork, rackworks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rack": amtrack, anticrack, arrack, backtrack, barrack, bookrack, carack, carrack, coatrack, crack, gimcrack, hatrack, hayrack, hydrocrack, multitrack, offtrack, racetrack, rerack, retrack, rickrack, sidetrack, soundtrack, ta | |
