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Neck vs Rack - What's the difference?

neck | rack |

As nouns the difference between neck and rack

is that neck is the part of body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals while rack is dress, skirt.

As a verb neck

is to hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.

neck

English

(wikipedia neck)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The part of body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
  • The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
  • The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck .
  • The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
  • (botany) The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
  • *
    • Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes.
  • (music) The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
  • A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
  • (engineering) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
    • a neck forming the journal of a shaft
  • The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
  • (architecture) The gorgerin of a capital.
  • The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.

    • Derived terms

    * bottleneck * hindneck * neck and neck/neck-and-neck * neckband * neckcloth * neckerchief (from kerchief) * necklace * neckless * necklet * neckline * neck of the woods * neck ring * necktie * neckwear * neckyoke * polo neck, polo-neck * stick one's neck out * turtleneck * V-neck

    See also

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate
  • (US) To make love; to snog; to intently kiss or cuddle.
    • ''Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.
  • To drink rapidly.
  • * 2006 , Sarah Johnstone, Tom Masters, London
    • In the dim light, punters sit sipping raspberry-flavoured Tokyo martinis, losing the freestyle sushi off their chopsticks or necking Asahi beer.
  • To decrease in diameter.
  • * 2007 , John H. Bickford, Introduction to the Design and Behavior of Bolted Joints , page 272
    • Since this temperature would place the bolt in its creep range, it will slowly stretch, necking down as it does so. Eventually it will get too thin to support the weight, and the bolt will break.

    Derived terms

    * necking

    Synonyms

    * (kiss or cuddle intently ): French kiss, grope, pet, snuggle, smooch

    rack

    English

    (wikipedia rack)

    Etymology 1

    See Dutch rekken

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
  • Any of various kinds of frame for holding clothes, bottles, animal fodder, mined ore, shot on a vessel, etc.
  • (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; called also rack block.
  • A distaff.
  • A bar with teeth]] on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, [[pinion#Etymology 2, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
  • 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.
  • A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
  • * Macaulay
    • During the troubles of the fifteenth century, a rack was introduced into the Tower, and was occasionally used under the plea of political necessity.
  • A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and a crossbow.
  • A pair of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
  • A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
    • I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday.
  • (billiards, snooker, pool) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
    • See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_%28billiards%29]
  • (slang) A woman's breasts.
  • (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with 5 or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded. Also rappel rack'', ''abseil rack .
  • (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, karabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
    • I used almost a full rack on the second pitch.
  • A grate on which bacon is laid.
  • (obsolete) That which is extorted; exaction.
    • Derived terms
    * autorack * bike rack * cheese rack/cheese-rack * gun rack * spice rack * roof rack * toast rack

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place in or hang on a rack.
  • To torture (someone) on the rack.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • He was racked and miserably tormented.
  • * 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 228:
    • As the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt later recalled, his father, Henry VII's jewel-house keeper Henry Wyatt, had been racked on the orders of Richard III, who had sat there and watched.
  • To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
  • * Milton
    • Vaunting aloud but racked with deep despair.
  • (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Try what my credit can in Venice do; / That shall be racked even to the uttermost.
  • * Spenser
    • The landlords there shamefully rack their tenants.
  • * Fuller
    • They rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof.
  • (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
  • (slang) To strike a male in the groin with the knee.
  • To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
  • (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • stretch joints of a person
    • Derived terms
    * rack one's brain

    Etymology 3

    Probably from (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fly, as vapour or broken clouds

    • Noun

    (-)
  • Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack , pass without noise.
  • * Charles Kingsley
    • And the night rack came rolling up.

    Etymology 4

    (etyl) rakken

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • It is in common practice to draw wine or beer from the lees (which we call racking ), whereby it will clarify much the sooner.

    Etymology 5

    See , or rock (verb).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
    • (Fuller)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fast amble.

    • Etymology 6

    See wreck.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A wreck; destruction.
  • * Samuel Pepys
    • All goes to rack .
    Derived terms
    * rack and ruin

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