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Rack Up

Definitions: Rack Up

Rack Up

Verb

1. Gain points; "The home team scored many times".

2. Place in a rack; "rack pool balls".

3. Colloquial usage; defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents".

4. Supply a rack with feed for (horses or other animals).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Rack Up

DomainDefinitions

Mining

A. To move the drilling machine forward into alignment with the borehole, using the rack-and-gear pinion to facilitate moving the machine b. To stack and arrange the drill rods in an orderly fashion in the tripod, mast, or derrick, or horizontally on a rack provided on the ground. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Rack Up

Synonyms: hit (v), mop up (v), pip (v), score (v), tally (v), whip (v), worst (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Rack Up

Specialty definitions using "rack up": AUTOMATIC PATTERN EDGERBACK TENDER, CLOTH PRINTING, BALE-TIE-MACHINE OPERATOR, BELT-BUILDER HELPER, BONDING-MACHINE SETTERCRIMPING-MACHINE OPERATOR, CUTTER, HANDdevelopment mechanic, DOOR ASSEMBLER IEXPERIMENTAL MECHANICFARMWORKER, MACHINEgear shaper, GEAR-CUTTING-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR, TOOL, GRINDER SET-UP OPERATOR, THREAD TOOLKEYBOARD-ACTION ASSEMBLER, KICK PRESS SETTER, knife cutterlithographic-camera operatorMOLD FILLER AND DRAINER, mountain railwayNEEDLE POLISHER, NEWSPAPER-DELIVERY DRIVERPHOTOGRAPHER, LITHOGRAPHIC, photolithographic process worker, PICKER TENDER, PLASTIC MOLDER, precision-thread-grinder operator, process-camera operatorROLL BUILDERSHRIMP-PEELING-MACHINE OPERATOR, stock cutter, SUPERVISOR, VACUUM METALIZINGthread-grinder, tool, tool setter, tool-room gear-machine operator, trimmer, handV-BELT BUILDERWAX POURER, wire-loop-machine operator. (references)

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Modern Usage: Rack Up

DomainUsage

Screenplays

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Rack Up

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rack Up

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bike pop rack up

5

em rack up

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Rack Up

Language Translations for "rack up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

endetromlerne,de smaa drejetromler,der sidder paa begge sider af hejsespillet,bruges som kraftkilde ved mange rutinearbejder paa riggen,som f.eks.samling og adskillelse af boreroer og foringsroer(making up og breaking out)samt transport af enkelte lae (and pulling single joints of drill pipe and casing from the pipe rack up to the rig floor, are used as a power source for many routine operations, catheads, such as screwing and unscrewing(making up and breaking out)drill pipe and casing, the small rotating drums located on both sides of the draw works). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kattekopen,de kleine roterende trommels aan beide zijden van de rotarykraan,worden gebruikt als krachtbron voor veel routinewerkzaamheden,zoals het vast-en losschroeven van boorpijpen en bekledingsbuizen,en het op de boorvloer trekken van boorpijpen en be (and pulling single joints of drill pipe and casing from the pipe rack up to the rig floor, are used as a power source for many routine operations, catheads, such as screwing and unscrewing(making up and breaking out)drill pipe and casing, the small rotating drums located on both sides of the draw works). (various references)

   

French

  

les cabestans sont des petits tambours rotatifs installés sur les deux côtés du treuil;ils sont utilisés comme source d'énergie pour un grand nombre d'opérations de routine, savoir le vissage et le dévissage(blocage et déblocage)des tiges de for (and pulling single joints of drill pipe and casing from the pipe rack up to the rig floor). (various references)

   

German

  

Spille,kleine sich drehende Seiltrommeln,die an beiden Seiten des Hebewerks angebracht sind,dienen als Kraftquelle fuer viele Routinearbeiten wie An-und Abschrauben(Zusammen-und Auseinanderschrauben)von Bohrgestaenge und Futterrohren sowie Hochziehen einz (and pulling single joints of drill pipe and casing from the pipe rack up to the rig floor, are used as a power source for many routine operations, catheads, such as screwing and unscrewing("making up" and "breaking out")drill pipe and casing, the small rotating drums located on both sides of the draw works). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

οι εργάτες είναι μικρά περιστροφικά τύμπανα εγκατεστημένα πάνω στις δύο πλευρές του βαρούλκου.Χρησιμοποιούνται ως πηγή ενεργείας για ένα (and pulling single joints of drill pipe and casing from the pipe rack up to the rig floor). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

lovat jászolrácshoz köt (to rack up a horse). (various references)

   

Italian

  

accumulare (accumulate, amass, gather, heap, hoard, pile, pile up, run up, store). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackray upay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

измучить (jade, torment). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

los cabrestantes, pequeños tambores rotatorios situados a ambos lados del mecanismo elevador, se utilizan como fuente de energia para varias operaciones de rutina, tales como roscado y desenrosca do de las varillas de perforacion y de la entubacion (casi (and pulling single joints of drill pipe and casing from the pipe rack up to the rig floor, are used as a power source for many routine operations, catheads, such as screwing and unscrewing("making up" and "breaking out")drill pipe and casing, the small rotating drums located on both sides of the draw works). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ไ"้ชัยชนะ (การกีฬา) (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yem vermek (fodder), saman vermek, ot vermek. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Rack Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-k-p-r-u"

-1 letter: pucka.

-2 letters: cark, carp, crap, pack, park, prau, puck, rack, ruck.

-3 letters: arc, ark, auk, cap, car, cup, cur, pac, par, pur, rap.

-4 letters: ar, ka, pa, up.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-k-p-r-u"
 

+1 letter: crackup.

 

+2 letters: crackups, unpacker.

 

+3 letters: parbuckle, sapsucker, unpackers.

 

+4 letters: bankruptcy, parbuckled, parbuckles, sapsuckers, superflack.

 

+5 letters: parbuckling, superflacks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Rack Up


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 61 63 6B      55 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01010101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#97 &#99 &#107 &#32 &#85 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0061 0063 006B      0055 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5267697725582

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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