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rack
What does rack mean?
rack (noun): a series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use rack in a sentence?
- The newspapers were arranged on a rack. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce rack?
/ɹæk/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
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What does “rack” mean?
a unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes)
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the act of giving something in return for something received
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a series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
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the dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is
Not quite: that's what size means.
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