rack
- IPA[rak]
英式
- a framework, typically with rails, bars, hooks, or pegs, for holding or storing things;a stack of digital effects units for a guitar or other instrument.
- cause extreme pain, anguish, or distress to;torture (someone) on the rack.
verb: rack, 3rd person present: racks, gerund or present participle: racking, past tense: racked, past participle: racked
noun: rack, plural noun: racks
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- 片語
名詞
- 1. a framework, typically with rails, bars, hooks, or pegs, for holding or storing things a spice rack a letter rack
- ▪ a stack of digital effects units for a guitar or other instrument.
- ▪ a vertically barred frame for holding animal fodder a hay rack
- 2. a cogged or toothed bar or rail engaging with a wheel or pinion, or using pegs to adjust the position of something a steering rack
- 3. historical an instrument of torture consisting of a frame on which the victim was stretched by turning rollers to which the wrists and ankles were tied.
- 4. a triangular structure for positioning the balls in pool.
- ▪ a single game of pool.
- 5. North American vulgar slang a woman's breasts that chick's got a nice rack
- 6. North American a set of antlers moose have the most impressive racks of all the antlered animals
- 7. North American informal a bed.
動詞
- 1. cause extreme pain, anguish, or distress to he was racked with guilt
- ▪ historical torture (someone) on the rack.
- 2. place in or on a rack the shoes were racked neatly beneath the dresses
- 3. move by a rack and pinion.
- 4. archaic raise (rent) above a fair or normal amount.
- ▪ oppress (a tenant) by exacting excessive rent.
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- IPA[rak]
美式
- a framework, typically with rails, bars, hooks, or pegs, for holding or storing things: a spice rack a magazine rack
- cause extreme physical or mental pain to; subject to extreme stress: he was racked with guilt
Oxford American Dictionary
- IPA[rak]
英式
- a horse's gait in which both hoofs on either side in turn are lifted almost simultaneously, ...
- (of a horse) move with a rack gait.
Oxford Dictionary
- IPA[rak]
英式
- a mass of high, thick, fast-moving clouds: there was a thin moon, a rack of cloud
- (of a cloud) be driven before the wind: a thin shred of cloud racking across the moon
Oxford Dictionary
- IPA[rak]
美式
- a mass of high, thick, fast-moving clouds: there was a thin moon, a rack of cloud
- (of a cloud) be driven before the wind: a thin shred of cloud racking across the moon
Oxford American Dictionary
- IPA[rak]
美式
- a horse's gait in which both hoofs on either side in turn are lifted almost simultaneously, ...
- (of a horse) move with a rack gait.
Oxford American Dictionary
- IPA[rak]
英式
- draw off (wine, beer, etc.) from the sediment in the barrel: the wine is racked off into large oak casks
Oxford Dictionary
- IPA[rak]
美式
- draw off (wine, beer, etc.) from the sediment in the barrel: the wine is racked off into large oak casks
Oxford American Dictionary
- IPA[rak]
美式
- a large cut of meat, typically lamb, that includes the front ribs: my favorite dish on the menu was a densely seasoned rack of lamb
Oxford American Dictionary
- IPA[rak]
英式
- a joint of meat, typically lamb, that includes the front ribs: my favourite dish on the menu was a densely seasoned rack of lamb
Oxford Dictionary