rak (inglés rack)

Phonetic: "/ɹæk/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other

Definition: Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.

Definition: A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.

Definition: A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.

Definition: A bunk.

Definition: (by extension) Sleep.

Definition: A distaff.

Definition: 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.

Definition: 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.

Definition: A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.

Definition: A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).

Definition: A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.

Example: I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday.

Definition: A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.

Definition: A woman's breasts.

Definition: A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.

Example: abseil rack

Definition: 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.

Definition: A grate on which bacon is laid.

Definition: That which is extorted; exaction.

Definition: A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.

Definition: A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially such proceeds of crime

Phonetic: "/ɹæk/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To place in or hang on a rack.

Definition: To torture (someone) on the rack.

Definition: To cause (someone) to suffer pain.

Definition: To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.

Definition: To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.

Definition: To strike a male in the testicles.

Definition: To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.

Definition: To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.

Definition: To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.

Definition: To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.

Definition: (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.