Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - rack
Rack
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 a a framework usu. with rails, bars, hooks, etc., for holding or storing things. b a frame for holding animal fodder. 2 a cogged or toothed bar or rail engaging with a wheel or pinion etc., or using pegs to adjust the position of something. 3 hist. an instrument of torture stretching the victim's joints by the turning of rollers to which the wrists and ankles were tied. --v.tr. 1 (of disease or pain) inflict suffering on. 2 hist. torture (a person) on the rack. 3 place in or on a rack. 4 shake violently. 5 injure by straining. 6 oppress (tenants) by exacting excessive rent. 7 exhaust (the land) by excessive use. Phrases and idioms on the rack in distress or under strain. rack one's brains make a great mental effort (racked my brains for something to say). rack-railway a railway with a cogged rail between the bearing rails. rack-rent n. 1 a high rent, annually equalling the full value of the property to which it relates. 2 an extortionate rent. --v.tr. exact this from (a tenant) or for (land). rack-renter a tenant paying or a landlord exacting an extortionate rent. rack-up US achieve (a score etc.). rack-wheel a cog-wheel. Etymology: ME rakke f. MDu., MLG rak, rek, prob. f. recken stretch 2. n. destruction ( esp. rack and ruin). Etymology: var. of WRACK, WRECK 3. n. a joint of lamb etc. including the front ribs. Etymology: perh. f. RACK(1) 4. v.tr. (often foll. by off) draw off (wine, beer, etc.) from the lees. Etymology: ME f. Prov. arracar f. raca stems and husks of grapes, dregs 5. n. & v. --n. driving clouds. --v.intr. (of clouds) be driven before the wind. Etymology: ME, prob. of Scand. orig.: cf. Norw. and Sw. dial. rak wreckage etc. f. reka drive 6. n. & v. --n. a horse's gait between a trot and a canter. --v.intr. progress in this way.
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English rak rain cloud, rapid movement Date: 14th century a wind-driven mass of high often broken clouds, II. intransitive verb Date: 1590 to fly or scud in high wind, III. noun see: right Date: 14th century a framework for holding fodder for livestock, an instrument of torture on which a body is stretched, 3. a. a cause of anguish or pain, acute suffering, the action of straining or wrenching, a framework, stand, or grating on or in which articles are placed, 5. a bar with teeth on one face for gearing with a pinion or worm gear to transform rotary motion to linear motion or vice versa (as in an automobile steering mechanism), a notched bar used as a ratchet to engage with a pawl, click, or detent, a pair of antlers, a triangular frame used to set up the balls in a pool game, bed, sack, ~ful noun IV. verb Date: 15th century transitive verb to torture on the ~, to cause to suffer torture, pain, anguish, or ruin , 3. to stretch or strain violently , to raise (rents) oppressively, to harass or oppress with high rents or extortions, to work or treat (material) on a ~, to work by a ~ and pinion or worm so as to extend or contract , to seize (as parallel ropes of a tackle) together, to place (as pool balls) in a ~, intransitive verb to become forced out of shape or out of plumb, see: afflict ~er noun ~ingly adverb V. transitive verb see: edify Date: 15th century to draw off (as wine) from the lees, VI. intransitive verb Etymology: probably alteration of 1rock Date: 1530 to go at a ~, VII. noun Date: 1580 either of two gaits of a horse:, pace 4b, a fast showy 4-beat gait, VIII. noun Etymology: perhaps from 3~ Date: 1570 the neck and spine of a forequarter of veal, pork, or especially mutton, the rib section of a lamb's forequarters used for chops or as a roast, IX. noun Etymology: alteration of w~ Date: 1592 destruction ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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