rack
机架,架,架子,架设
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Definitions
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- : a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.
- : a fixture containing several tiered shelves, often affixed to a wall: a book rack;a spice rack.
- : a spreading framework set on a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or the like, in large loads: It's an old wagon, but the bale rack is new.
- : Pool. a wooden frame of triangular shape within which the balls are arranged before play: When not in use, please return the rack to its peg on the wall.the balls so arranged: He took aim at the rack.
- : Machinery. a bar, with teeth on one of its sides, adapted to engage with the teeth of a pinion or the like, as for converting circular into rectilinear motion or vice versa: When the pinion mounted to the locomotive engages with the rack between the rails, the train can ascend a steep slope.a bar having a series of notches engaging with a pawl or the like: Instead of a round gear, this ratchet has a linear rack with which the pawl makes contact.
- : a former instrument of torture consisting of a framework on which a victim was tied, often spread-eagled, by the wrists and ankles, to be slowly stretched by spreading the parts of the framework: The racks were unspeakably horrid devices used for centuries throughout Europe.
- : a cause or state of intense suffering of body or mind.
- : torment; anguish.
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Phrases
- rack and ruin, go to
- rack one's brain
- rack out
- rack up
- on the rack
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Examples
At an Albertson’s in South San Francisco, for example, customers blithely shop around an automated rack-and-tote system at the store’s center that preps orders for pickup and delivery.
The decree also put in place an early warning system for officers racking up use-of-force incidents at a high rate.
I’m eyeing Tern’s HSD, which can stand vertically on its rear rack, with fold-down handlebars for the smallest storage footprint possible.
Throughout the course of your day you’ll tend to be four or five out of a five-scale on average, but it doesn’t mean you don’t rack up ones and twos and threes.
Make things complicatedEven if you’ve got no decent option to lock your bike to, like a rack or a lamppost, you’re never out of options.
Bake on the center rack of the oven for 40 to 50 minutes or until set.
The clever crooks managed to rack up $2 million in profits over a year, Ares said.
Whereas other brands purchase their barrels from big producers more or less off the rack, The Macallan starts in the forest.
He put them in glamorous gowns, yes, but also encouraged them to buy trendier ready-to-wear labels off the rack.
Jenny and Ichabod rack their brains before eventually deciding to hunt for the missing Franklin documents at the archives.
The whole thing begins to have a jigsaw look, like a child's toy rack with wooden soldiers on it, expanding and contracting.