Usually means: Storage framework for organizing items.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. rack, the rack: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rack, rack, rack, rack, rack, the rack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rack, rack, rack, rack, rack, rack, rack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rack, the rack: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rack: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rack, rack: Wordnik
  7. rack, the rack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. RACK, rack: Wiktionary
  9. rack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rack: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rack, rack: Dictionary.com
  13. rack (1), rack (2), rack (3): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rack: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. RACK, Rack (billiards), Rack (torture), Rack (torture device), Rack (web server interface), Rack, The Rack (album), The rack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rack: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rack: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rack: Rhymezone
  19. rack: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rack: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Rack: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. rack: Free Dictionary
  23. rack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rack: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. rack: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. rack: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. rack: Legal dictionary
  4. Rack: Radio Programming and Production

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rack: CCI Computer
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. rack: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. rack: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. RACK: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. rack: Idioms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. rack, rack, rack, rack, rack: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rack: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. The Rack: A Seattle Lexicon
  5. The Rack: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rack: Dan's Poker
  2. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Rack, Rack: Gambling Glossary
  4. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Rack: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Rack: Latitude Mexico
  5. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
noun:  Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
noun:  (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
noun:  (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
noun:  (nautical, slang) A bunk.
noun:  (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
noun:  A distaff.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
noun:  A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
noun:  A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
noun:  (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
noun:  (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
noun:  (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
noun:  (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
noun:  (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
noun:  A grate on which bacon is laid.
noun:  (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
noun:  (slang) A thousand, especially if proceeds of a crime.
verb:  To place in or hang on a rack.
verb:  To torture (someone) on the rack.
verb:  To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
verb:  (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
verb:  (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
verb:  (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
verb:  (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
verb:  (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
verb:  (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
verb:  (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
verb:  To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
verb:  To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
noun:  Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
verb:  (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
verb:  (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
noun:  A fast amble.
noun:  (obsolete) A wreck; destruction.
noun:  (obsolete) A young rabbit, or its skin.
noun:  Alternative form of arak [A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Levant.]
noun:  (BDSM) Initialism of risk-aware consensual kink.

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