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Trolley vs Rack - What's the difference?

trolley | rack |

As nouns the difference between trolley and rack

is that trolley is (australian|new zealand|british) a cart or shopping cart while rack is dress, skirt.

As a verb trolley

is to bring to by trolley.

trolley

English

Alternative forms

* trolly

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (Australian, New Zealand, British) A cart or shopping cart.
  • (British) A hand truck.
  • (British) A .
  • (British) A gurney.
  • A single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electical line usually for a streetcar.
  • (US) A streetcar or a system of streetcars.
  • (US, colloquial) A light rail system or a train on such a system.
  • A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
  • A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.

    • Derived terms

    * off one's trolley * trolleybus * trolley dolly * trolley jack

    Verb

  • To bring to by trolley.
  • To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another.

    • 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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