Phonetic Breakdown of "rack"
Learn how to break down "rack" into its phonetic components. Understanding syllables and phonetics helps with pronunciation, spelling, and language learning.
Standard Phonetic Pronunciation:
/ɹæk/
Phonetic representation based on standard dictionaries
IPA Phonetic Pronunciation:
R AE1 K
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Definition of "rack"
Pronunciation: /ɹæk/
Noun
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A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
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Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.Synonyms: luggage rack
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A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
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A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.Synonyms: rack block
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A bunk.
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(by extension) Sleep.
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A distaff.
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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.
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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.
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A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
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A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
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A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.Example: "I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday."
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A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
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A woman's breasts.
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A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.Example: "abseil rack"
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A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.Example: "I used almost a full rack on the second pitch."
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A grate on which bacon is laid.
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That which is extorted; exaction.
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A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
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A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially such proceeds of crime
Verb
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To place in or hang on a rack.
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To torture (someone) on the rack.
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To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
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To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
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To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.Synonyms: rack up
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To strike a male in the testicles.
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To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
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To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
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To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
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To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
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(structural engineering) Tending to shear a structure (that is, force it to move in different directions at different points).Example: "Post-and-lintel construction racks easily."Synonyms: shear
Pronunciation: /ɹæk/
Verb
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To stretch a person's joints.
Pronunciation: /ɹæk/
Noun
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Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
Verb
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To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir
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To fly, as vapour or broken clouds
Pronunciation: /ɹæk/
Verb
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To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
Pronunciation: /ɹæk/
Noun
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A fast amble.
Verb
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(of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
Pronunciation: /ɹæk/
Noun
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A wreck; destruction.
Pronunciation: /ɹæk/
Noun
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A young rabbit, or its skin.
Pronunciation: /ɹæk/
Noun
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A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Middle East
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The toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica.
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