Rack

[ræk]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately.

(noun.) a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body.

(noun.) a support for displaying various articles; 'the newspapers were arranged on a rack'.

(noun.) framework for holding objects.

(noun.) an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims.

(noun.) rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton.

(verb.) torture on the rack.

(verb.) seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block.

(verb.) work on a rack; 'rack leather'.

(verb.) stretch to the limits; 'rack one's brains'.

(verb.) draw off from the lees; 'rack wine'.

(verb.) fly in high wind.

(verb.) put on a rack and pinion; 'rack a camera'.

錄入:斯威尼--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Same as Arrack.

(n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.

(n.) A wreck; destruction.

(n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.

(v. i.) To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.

(v.) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.

(n.) A fast amble.

(v. t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.

(a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.

(a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.

(a.) An instrument for bending a bow.

(a.) A grate on which bacon is laid.

(a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.

(a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.

(a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot.

(a.) A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.

(a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.

(a.) A distaff.

(a.) A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.

(a.) That which is extorted; exaction.

(v. t.) To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.

(v. t.) To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.

(v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.

(v. t.) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.

(v. t.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.

校對:普拉特

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Torture, torment, anguish, agony, pang, extreme pain.[2]. Crib, manger.[3]. Neck (of mutton), crag.[4]. Mist, vapor.[5]. (Naut.) Fairleader.

v. a. [1]. Torture, torment, distress, agonize, excruciate, pain extremely.[2]. Stretch, strain, force, wrest.[3]. Draw off (from sediment).

編輯:维姬

同義詞及反義詞：

[See TORTURE]

艾达整理

解釋/意思:

v.t. to strain or draw off from the lees as wine.—ns. Rack′ing-can a vessel from which wine can be drawn without disturbing the lees; Rack′ing-cock -fau′cet a cock used in drawing off liquour from a cask; Rack′ing-pump a pump for the transfer of liquor to casks.

n. thin or broken clouds drifting across the sky.—v.i. to drift to drive.

n. the gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop.—n. Rack′er a horse that moves in this gait.

n. same as Wrack=Wreck—now used only in the phrases Go to rack Go to rack and ruin.

n. same as Arrack.—Rack punch a punch made with arrack.

n. an instrument for racking or extending: an engine for stretching the body in order to extort a confession hence (fig.) extreme pain anxiety or doubt: a framework on which articles are arranged as hat-rack plate-rack letter-rack &c.: the grating above a manger for hay: (mech.) a straight bar with teeth to work into those of a wheel pinion or endless screw for converting a circular into a rectilinear motion or vice vers: (Scot.) the course in curling.—v.t. to stretch forcibly: to strain: to stretch on the rack or wheel: to torture: to exhaust: to worry agitate: to wrest overstrain: to practise rapacity: to extort: to place in a rack or frame: (naut.) to seize together with cross-turns as two ropes.—n. Rack′er one who tortures.—adj. Rack′ing tormenting.—ns. Rack′-rail a railway having cogs which work into similar cogs on a locomotive; Rack′-rent an annual rent stretched to the utmost value of the thing rented exorbitant rent.—v.t. to subject to such rents.—ns. Rack′-rent′er one who exacts or pays rack-rent; Rack′-stick a stick for stretching a rope; Rack′-tail a bent arm in a repeating clock connected with the striking mechanism; Rack′work a strong bar with cogs to correspond with similar cogs on a wheel which either moves or is moved by the bar.—Live at rack and manger to live sumptuously and wastefully; On the rack stretched upon it: tortured by anxiety; Put to the rack to put to the torture of the rack: to subject to keen suffering.

n. a young rabbit.

n. (prov.) the neck and spine of a fore-quarter of veal or mutton: the neck of mutton or pork.

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