[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["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 vertical framework set on the sides of a wagon and able to be extended upward 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.", "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 of its sides, adapted to engage with the teeth of a pinionrack and pinionor 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 bar, with teeth on of its sides, adapted to engage with the teeth of a pinionrack and pinionor 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 mental or physical suffering, torment, or strain:Too many workers have suffered on the rack of annual, painful increases in their health insurance premiums.Synonyms: ordeal , tribulation , agony , pain , torture", "a pair of antlers:What hunting lodge would be complete without an eight-point rack mounted above the fireplace?", "Slang: Vulgar.a woman's breasts.", "Slang.a large quantity of money, especially one thousand dollars:I spent a whole rack on this fancy dinner and it wasn't worth it.The engagement ring he bought her cost a couple of racks.", "Slang.a bed, cot, or bunk, especially in an institutional context such as the military or a prison:I spent all afternoon in my rack."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to ; distress acutely; torment:His body was racked with pain.", "to strain in mental effort:She racked her brains to come up with an excuse not to go to the party.", "to strain by physical force or violence:Was this suspect racked into a confession?", "to strain beyond what is normal or usual:This extreme exercise is racking your muscles.", "formerly, to stretch the body of (a person) in torture by means of a rack:The prisoner will be taken to the dungeon to be racked.", "Nautical.to seize (two ropes) together side by side:Rack those lines, mate!"]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["Slang.to go to bed; go to sleep:I racked out all afternoon.", "Informal.to tally, accumulate, or amass, as an achievement or score:The corporation racked up the greatest profits in its history.Pool.to put (the balls) in a rack:You rack 'em up, and I'll break.", "Informal.to tally, accumulate, or amass, as an achievement or score:The corporation racked up the greatest profits in its history.", "Pool.to put (the balls) in a rack:You rack 'em up, and I'll break."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["ruin or destruction; wrack :We found our boat in a complete state of rack."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["Slang.to wreck, especially a vehicle:People don't realize how easy it is to rack up a car in this fog."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the fast pace of a horse in which the legs move in lateral pairs but not simultaneously:Playing the video in slow motion catches each footfall in the horse's rack."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["(of horses) to move in a rack:a group of mustangs racking at top speed."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Also calledcloud rack.a group of drifting clouds:The first rays of dawn struggle to pierce the dreary rack of storm clouds."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["be driven or moved, as a cloud, before the wind:a wispy train of clouds racking to our west."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to draw off (wine, cider, etc.) from the lees:How recently was this wine racked into a clean barrel?"]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the rib section of a foresaddle of lamb, mutton, pork, or sometimes veal:a roasted rack of lamb with potatoes and asparagus.", "(formerly) the neck portion of mutton, pork, or veal."]}]