DICTOMETER

RACK

(rack, perchero, hylle, pine, pinebenk, stativ)

1. Synonyms:
   • Rack
   Definitions:
   • framework for holding objects
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Rack
   Definitions:
   • rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Wrack
   • Rack
   Definitions:
   • the destruction or collapse of something
   Examples:
   • Wrack and ruin
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Rack
   • Wheel
   Definitions:
   • an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Rack
   • Stand
   Definitions:
   • a support for displaying various articles
   Examples:
   • The newspapers were arranged on a rack
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Rack
   Definitions:
   • a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Rack
   • Single-foot
   Definitions:
   • a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Single-foot
   • Rack
   Definitions:
   • go at a rack
   Examples:
   • The horses single-footed
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Rack
   Definitions:
   • stretch to the limits
   Examples:
   • Rack one's brains
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Rack
   Definitions:
   • put on a rack and pinion
   Examples:
   • Rack a camera
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Extort
   • Squeeze
   • Rack
   • Gouge
   • Wring
   Definitions:
   • obtain by coercion or intimidation
   Examples:
   • 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
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Scud
   • Rack
   Definitions:
   • run before a gale
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Rack
   Definitions:
   • fly in high wind
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Rack
   Definitions:
   • draw off from the lees
   Examples:
   • Rack wine
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Torment
   • Torture
   • Excruciate
   • Rack
   Definitions:
   • torment emotionally or mentally
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Rack
   Definitions:
   • work on a rack
   Examples:
   • Rack leather
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Rack
    Definitions:
    • seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Rack
    Definitions:
    • torture on the rack