rack

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At home, I have a rack of shelves with box and manilla folders.

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framework for holding objects

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noun

framework for holding objects

noun

rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton

noun

the destruction or collapse of something; "wrack and ruin"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rack.

noun

framework for holding objects

noun

rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton

noun

the destruction or collapse of something; "wrack and ruin"

noun

an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims

noun

a support for displaying various articles; "the newspapers were arranged on a rack"

noun

a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body

noun

a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately

verb

go at a rack; "the horses single-footed"

verb

stretch to the limits; "rack one's brains"

verb

put on a rack and pinion; "rack a camera"

verb

obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"

verb

run before a gale

verb

fly in high wind

verb

draw off from the lees; "rack wine"

verb

torment emotionally or mentally

verb

work on a rack; "rack leather"

verb

seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block

verb

torture on the rack

Example sentences

At home, I have a rack of shelves with box and manilla folders.

These encode the dc, rack, position, and chassis.

But they are split across say 100 racks so 1/100th of their salary/benefits per month, lets call it $160/month [1].

I own my own servers and lease a full rack and I serve roughly 1 billion page impressions per month.

And presumably you've got a couple of opsen types tending and feeding that rack.

At the same time, we know that we shouldn't just rack up debt in the present having fun because we want a strong future.

Imagine there's a company whose only asset is a rack of servers that you wish to purchase.

If it's an express train, it may blaze right through that stop, in which case you'll be backtracking on a train for the second time today!

One immediate benefit we saw with this was quickly identifying when a rack or quad goes down.

", and everybody responded "Because you've been paying us to rack up technical debt.

They require lengthy contract negotiations that will rack up thousands in lawyer's fees from your side before you bring in any revenue.

It's nice if the constraints are prioritized so you know what to give up if you can't satisfy them all. But there's nothing quite like saying "Yeah, we did this thing in two weeks that everyone assumed was impossible, and we did it without a binary push" or "Through our clever architecture, we accomplished with one server what everyone thought required a whole rack.

What they didn't count on was the fact that there are people living on the edge who rack up a number of felony convictions for relatively minor things even though they're not the kind of hardened criminal legislators were thinking about.

Presumably, if they didn't pay the huge bill for their fines, what would happen?Surely, $250k/day would rack up fast... As I see it, eventually Yahoo would rack up such a bill that they couldn't afford it, and any collection of the fee by the government would force Yahoo to close its doors.