Rectangular and Rack

adjective

• Having four right angles.
  • usage: "a rectangular figure twice as long as it is wide"
• Having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles.
  • usage: "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system"
  • synonyms: orthogonal

(a.) Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees.

noun

• Framework for holding objects.
• Rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton.
• The destruction or collapse of something.
  • usage: "wrack and ruin"
  • synonyms: wrack
• An instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims.
  • synonyms: wheel
• A support for displaying various articles.
  • usage: "the newspapers were arranged on a rack"
  • synonyms: stand
• A form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body.
• A rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately.
  • synonyms: single-foot

verb

• Go at a rack.
  • usage: "the horses single-footed"
  • synonyms: single-foot
• Stretch to the limits.
  • usage: "rack one's brains"
• Put on a rack and pinion.
  • usage: "rack a camera"
• Obtain by coercion or intimidation.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: extort, squeeze, gouge, wring
• Run before a gale.
  • synonyms: scud
• Fly in high wind.
• Draw off from the lees.
  • usage: "rack wine"
• Torment emotionally or mentally.
  • synonyms: torment, torture, excruciate
• Work on a rack.
  • usage: "rack leather"
• Seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block.
• Torture on the rack. .

• (a.) A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.
• (a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.
• (n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
• (v.t.) To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.
• (a.) That which is extorted; exaction.
• (v.) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.
• (v.t.) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.
• (a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot.
• (n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
• (a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining or displaying, something.
• (v.t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass or oppress by extortion.
• (a.) A grate on which bacon is laid.
• (n.) A fast amble.
• (a.) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.
• (v.i.) To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.
• (a.) A distaff.
• (n.) A wreck; destruction.
• (a.) An instrument for bending a bow.
• (n.) Same as Arrack.
• (v.t.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
• (a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw or grain on the stalk or other bulky loads.
• (v.t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.
• (a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.
• (a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.
• (v.t.) To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.