Rack | Mean of rack in English Dictionary

/ˈræk/

• Noun
• a frame or stand that has shelves, hooks, slots, etc., in which or on which you place things
1. a bike/hat/luggage/magazine/wine rack
2. The store has racks of dresses.
3. Place the pie on the middle rack in the oven.
4. During the store's sales, the clothes were flying off the rack. [=people were buying the clothes very quickly]
• a machine used in the past to hurt people by stretching their bodies
1. The prisoners were tortured on the rack.
2. The interviewer put me on the rack and asked some really tough questions.
• a bar with teeth that fit into a gear or a wheel in a machine
1. a car with rack and pinion steering

• a pair of antlers
1. a deer with a huge rack
• a triangular frame that is used to group the balls together in a billiard game
• a group of billiard balls that have been set up with a rack
1. a tight/loose rack
• in a store where clothes are sold in different sizes that are not made to fit a particular person
1. He bought that suit off the rack. [=(Brit) off the peg]
• in a very bad or difficult situation
1. They had their opponents on the rack in the first half.
• Verb
• to cause (someone or something) to suffer pain or damage
1. He was racked with/by jealousy [=he was very jealous] when he saw his ex-wife with another man.
2. a body racked by disease
3. The team has been racked by dissension. [=the team has experienced a lot of dissension]
4. The country was racked by civil war.
• to put (balls) in a rack for a game of billiards
1. Rack the balls (up) and we'll play some pool.
• to achieve or get (something) as time passes
1. I wanted to rack up as many points as possible.
2. The company has racked up huge losses/sales.
• to think very hard in order to try to remember something, solve a problem, etc.
1. I've been racking my brain, but I can't remember his name.
• Noun
• a cut of meat from a lamb or pig that includes some of the ribs
1. We had (a) rack of lamb for dinner.
• the state of being destroyed or ruined
1. The old house has gone to rack and ruin. [=has become ruined]