| rack | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. rack | framework for holding objects. |
| ~ barbecue, barbeque | a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors. |
| ~ bicycle rack | a rack for parking bicycles. |
| ~ carrier | a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like. |
| ~ coat rack, coatrack, hatrack | a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats. |
| ~ dish rack | a rack for holding dishes as dishwater drains off of them. |
| ~ framework | a structure supporting or containing something. |
| ~ hayrack | a rack that holds hay for feeding livestock. |
| ~ pipe rack | a rack for holding a smoker's pipes. |
| ~ plate rack | a rack for holding plates to dry after they have been washed. |
| ~ tie rack | a rack for storing ties. |
| ~ toastrack | a rack for holding slices of toast. |
| ~ towel horse, towel rack | a rack consisting of one or more bars on which towels can be hung. |
| n. (food) | 2. rack | rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton. |
| ~ cut of meat, cut | a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass. |
| ~ crown roast, rack of lamb | a roast of the rib section of lamb. |
| n. (event) | 3. rack, wrack | the destruction or collapse of something.; "wrack and ruin" |
| ~ demolition, wipeout, destruction | an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. rack, wheel | an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims. |
| ~ instrument of torture | an instrument of punishment designed and used to inflict torture on the condemned person. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. rack, stand | a support for displaying various articles.; "the newspapers were arranged on a rack" |
| ~ bier | a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial. |
| ~ cruet-stand | a stand for cruets containing various condiments. |
| ~ dress rack | a rack used primarily to display dresses for sale in a store. |
| ~ magazine rack | a rack for displaying magazines. |
| ~ music rack, music stand | a light stand for holding sheets of printed music. |
| ~ spice rack | a rack for displaying containers filled with spices. |
| ~ spit | a skewer for holding meat over a fire. |
| ~ support | any device that bears the weight of another thing.; "there was no place to attach supports for a shelf" |
| ~ tripod | a three-legged rack used for support. |
| n. (act) | 6. rack | a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body. |
| ~ torturing, torture | the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason.; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession" |
| n. (act) | 7. rack, single-foot | a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately. |
| ~ gait | a horse's manner of moving. |
| v. (motion) | 8. rack, single-foot | go at a rack.; "the horses single-footed" |
| ~ pace | go at a pace.; "The horse paced" |
| v. (emotion) | 9. rack | stretch to the limits.; "rack one's brains" |
| ~ strain, stress, try | test the limits of.; "You are trying my patience!" |
| v. (social) | 10. rack | put on a rack and pinion.; "rack a camera" |
| ~ put to work, work | cause to work.; "he is working his servants hard" |
| v. (possession) | 11. extort, gouge, rack, squeeze, wring | obtain by coercion or intimidation.; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him" |
| ~ fleece, gazump, overcharge, plume, hook, rob, soak, surcharge, pluck | rip off; ask an unreasonable price. |
| ~ bleed | get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone.; "They bled me dry--I have nothing left!" |
| v. (motion) | 12. rack, scud | run before a gale. |
| ~ navigation, pilotage, piloting | the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place. |
| ~ sail | travel on water propelled by wind.; "I love sailing, especially on the open sea"; "the ship sails on" |
| v. (motion) | 13. rack | fly in high wind. |
| ~ fly, wing | travel through the air; be airborne.; "Man cannot fly" |
| v. (motion) | 14. rack | draw off from the lees.; "rack wine" |
| ~ draw, take out | take liquid out of a container or well.; "She drew water from the barrel" |
| v. (emotion) | 15. excruciate, rack, torment, torture | torment emotionally or mentally. |
| ~ anguish, pain, hurt | cause emotional anguish or make miserable.; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school" |
| v. (creation) | 16. rack | work on a rack.; "rack leather" |
| ~ stretch | pull in opposite directions.; "During the Inquisition, the torturers would stretch their victims on a rack" |
| ~ work on, work, process | shape, form, or improve a material.; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal" |
| v. (contact) | 17. rack | seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block. |
| ~ clutch, prehend, seize | take hold of; grab.; "The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter"; "She clutched her purse"; "The mother seized her child by the arm"; "Birds of prey often seize small mammals" |
| v. (body) | 18. rack | torture on the rack. |
| ~ excruciate, torture, torment | subject to torture.; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible" |
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