How to pronounce “rack”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
• Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
• (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
• (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
• (slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
• (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
• A distaff.
• (mechanical engineering, rail transport) 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.
• (mechanical engineering) 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.
• A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
• A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
• A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
• (obsolete) A bone of a horse.
• (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
• (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
• (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
• (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
• (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
• A grate on which bacon is laid.
• (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
• (slang) A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
• [Verb]
• To place in or hang on a rack.
• To torture (someone) on the rack.
• To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
• (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
• (obsolete, occult) To alternately concatenate two words to magical effect.
• (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
• (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
• (slang) To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
• (by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
• (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
• (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
• (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
• (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
• (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).

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