<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack.</li><li>A fixture containing several tiered shelves, often affixed to a wall: a book rack; a spice rack.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>The balls so arranged: He took aim at the rack.</li><li>Machinery. A bar, with teeth on one of its sides, adapted to engage with the teeth of a pinion rack and pinion or 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.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>Synonyms: ordeal, tribulation, agony, pain, torture.</li><li>A pair of antlers: What hunting lodge would be complete without an eight-point rack mounted above the fireplace?</li><li>Slang. A woman's breasts.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) To torture; distress acutely; torment: His body was racked with pain.</li><li>To strain in mental effort: She racked her brains to come up with an excuse not to go to the party.</li><li>To strain by physical force or violence: Was this suspect racked into a confession?</li><li>To strain beyond what is normal or usual: This extreme exercise is racking your muscles.</li><li>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.</li><li>Nautical. To seize (two ropes) together side by side: Rack those lines, mate!</li><li>(verb phrase) Slang. To go to bed; go to sleep: I racked out all afternoon.</li><li>Informal. To tally, accumulate, or amass, as an achievement or score: The corporation racked up the greatest profits in its history.</li><li>Pool. To put (the balls) in a rack: You rack 'em up, and I'll break.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>