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Definition: Racker |
RackerNoun1. An attendant who puts pool or billiard balls into a rack. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "racker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Occupations | Inspects finished or partially finished hats, caps, hat parts, and millinery for defects and damage, and repairs less extensive flaws: Examines articles for irregularities, such as faulty coloring, shaping, sizing, and stitching. Rejects or returns extensively damaged articles to originating department for repair. Informs supervisor regarding types of article defects or damage. Repairs less extensive damage, performing any combination of following tasks: Trims excess material and loose or protruding threads, using clippers or scissors. Removes spots or stains from article, using sponge and water, and brushes surface of hat to remove dust or foreign matter. Applies sizing solution to cover holes or thin spots, using dauber or brush. Resews loose stitches and size tags, using needle and thread. Hangs or stacks hats and caps on rack or on table for packing. May be designated according to specific inspection function as Hat-Body Inspector (hat & cap); Hat-Cone Inspector (hat & cap); Trimming Inspector (hat & cap). (references) |
| Performs any combination of following tasks to prepare and disseminate negatives, positives, and prints in photofinishing laboratory: Reads instructions written on orders, and examines contents of orders to ascertain size, type, and number of pieces. Sorts orders according to size and type processing required. Pastes identifying label on customer order envelopes and transfer bags to ensure matching of orders subsequent to processing. Removes finished work from transfer bags subsequent to processing and computes customer charges according to pricelist. Inserts order in bag or envelope, and staples bag together or seals envelope. Pastes address label on bag or envelope. Conveys orders between departments. Distributes supplies to other photofinishing workers. Maintains records of orders sorted and packaged. (references) | |
| Tends machines that fill metal kegs with beer in keg-filling (racking) room of brewery: Pushes metal keg or barrel onto conveyor leading to racking machine. Lifts barrel from conveyor and positions barrel on machine. Lowers filling arm of counter-pressure filling machine (racker), and fits nozzle into bung. Turns valves that pressurize barrel and start flow of beer. Turns valve that releases filling arm when sight glass indicates barrel is full and raises arm. Pounds wooden plug into bung, using mallet. Presses pedal to roll barrel onto conveyor. Affixes revenue stamp over taphole, using staples or glue. Rolls barrel from conveyor to loading chute or storage area. Washes machine and floor, using hose. (references) | |
| Sorts lumber or veneer according to grade markings and size: Removes boards from sorting table, handtruck, or conveyor and stacks in piles or places boards in rack or on conveyor, according to grade marking, length, or use of boards. Gauges length of boards by sight, by marks on sorting table, or by measuring with rule. May remove defective lumber from conveyor and stack lumber according to grade, length, species, and color. May hand stamp grade markings on boards or stack of lumber. May be designated according to sorting equipment used as Racker (saw. & plan.). (references) | |
| Inspects cigars from fresh-work cigar machine to determine conformance to standards: Weighs random bundles of cigars to determine whether cigars are of prescribed weight and notifies SUPERVISOR, CIGAR-MAKING MACHINE (tobacco) when weight is not standard. Inspects cigars for broken tobacco wrappers, soft spots, defective patches, and variations from standard length and discards defective cigars. May place full boxes of perfect cigars in case. (references) | |
| Sews together sections of pocketed coil springs to assemble innersprings for mattresses: Cuts sections of uniform length from chain of pocketed coils with shears, and spreads specified number in layer across pegs of vertical rack. Sews fabric of pocket sections together (length and width of assembly), using needle and thread. Turns assembly over and repeats process. (references) | |
| Clamps arrows in rack preparatory to dipping: Aligns arrows in row and slides one end of row into rack slot. Builds successive layers of arrows by separating rows with dividers until rack is filled. Clamps ends of arrows in rack to hold them securely. Removes dividers and transfers loaded rack to painting department. Keeps records of arrows racked. (references) | |
| Hangs wet, freshly printed, or flocked wallcovering on rack to air dry: Slides stick under wallcovering as it emerges from discharge end of silk screen table or flocking machine. Raises stick to form loop of wallcovering and places stick in specific slots of wooden rack, using care to avoid contact of wet surface with other objects or surfaces. (references) | |
| Positions pool balls on table, using triangular rack. Performs such services as supplying chalk to players, cleaning table with brush, and placing cues in cue rack after game. Collects fees from players or writes fees on slips for collection by manager or cashier. May inspect cue tips and replace them, using glue and knife. (references) | |
| Arranges pieces of jewelry in rows on wire screens, or fastens pieces to racks with clamps or fabricated hooks, preparatory to plating, degreasing, and enameling. May brush particles of foreign matter from pieces of jewelry preparatory to painting. May place painted jewelry in trays for inspection. (references) | |
| Loads wire racks with cookies, crackers, and wafers preparatory to their being dipped in icing: Removes wire rack from overhead trolley conveyor and places products on rack. Lifts and hooks rack to conveyor. May impale products on pins of wire rack and be designated Sticker (bakery products). (references) | |
| Places electric clocks or electric motors used in clocks and timers on rack and connects lead wires to current outlets preparatory to testing. Records quantity racked, identification number, rack number, and date. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Racker |
| Specialty definitions using "racker": ball racker, BEAM RACKER, beam warper, BEAM-WARPER TENDER, AUTOMATIC ♦ cone racker ♦ dry-talc racker ♦ lumber puller, lumber racker, LUMBER SORTER ♦ PIPE RACKER ♦ RACKER, OCTAVE BOARD, RACKER, SILK-SCREEN PRINTING, RACK-ROOM WORKER ♦ section beamer, section warper ♦ tricot-warper tender ♦ warper tender. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Racker" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (jackanapes, mischief, rascal, scamp, varmint, varmints). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ein Verliebter Racker (1915) | |
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 |
racker | 21 |
center franziska racker | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "racker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | ackerray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "racker": rackers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "racker": barracker, cracker, firecracker, hydrocracker, nutcracker, racetracker, safecracker, shellcracker, tracker, wisecracker. (additional references) | |
Words containing "racker": barrackers, crackerjack, crackerjacks, crackers, firecrackers, gimcrackeries, gimcrackery, hydrocrackers, nutcrackers, racetrackers, safecrackers, shellcrackers, trackers, wisecrackers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "racker" (pronounced ra"ker) |
| 4 | r a" k er | cracker, tracker. |
| 3 | -a" k er | attacker, backer, blacker, hacker, lacquer, makar, packer, slacker, Stacker, tacker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rerack. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-r-r" | |
-1 letter: carer, crake, creak, racer, raker. | |
-2 letters: acre, cake, care, cark, carr, race, rack, rake, rare, rear, reck. | |
-3 letters: ace, arc, are, ark, car, ear, era, err, kae, kea, rec. | |
-4 letters: ae, ar, er, ka, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-k-r-r" | |
+1 letter: cracker, cranker, croaker, rackers, reracks, retrack, tracker. | |
+2 letters: carmaker, crackers, crankier, creakier, croakers, croakier, reracked, retracks, trackers. | |
+3 letters: barracked, barracker, caretaker, carjacker, carmakers, corncrake, cracklier, hackberry, muckraker, racetrack, racketeer, racketier, ragpicker, ransacker, reracking, retracked, retropack. | |
+4 letters: barrackers, blackberry, bricklayer, cankerworm, caretakers, carjackers, caseworker, corncrakes, cornerback, craterlike, icebreaker, muckrakers, nutcracker, racetracks, racewalker, racketeers, ragpickers, ransackers, reichsmark, repackager, retracking, retropacks, skyscraper, tracklayer, trafficker. | |
+5 letters: backbreaker, blackbirder, bricklayers, cankerworms, caseworkers, cornerbacks, crackerjack, crackleware, firecracker, gimcrackery, greenbacker, hackberries, icebreakers, lacquerwork, nutcrackers, quarterback, quarterdeck, racetracker, racewalkers, racketeered, reichsmarks, repackagers, safecracker, skyscrapers, tracklayers, trackwalker, traffickers, truckmaster, wisecracker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 63 6B 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -.-. -.- . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a c k e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0063 006B 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)526769777184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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