cloud rack
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cloud rack — noun : rack I 2a * * * rack4 (def. 1). [1840 50] * * * cloud rack, a group of broken clouds driven by the wind … Useful english dictionary
rack — rack1 rackingly, adv. /rak/, n. 1. a framework of bars, wires, or pegs on which articles are arranged or deposited: a clothes rack; a luggage rack. 2. a fixture containing several tiered shelves, often affixed to a wall: a book rack; a spice rack … Universalium
cloud drift — noun 1. : a mass of drifting clouds 2. : a method of distributing by airplane a powdered insecticide that drifts slowly like a cloud over the area under treatment * * * cloud drift, a body of clouds drifting or floating through the air; cloud… … Useful english dictionary
cloud — [n1] mass of water particles in air billow, brume, darkness, dimness, film, fog, fogginess, frost, gloom, haze, haziness, mare’s tail*, mist, murk, nebula, nebulosity, obscurity, ol’ buttermilk sky*, overcast, pea soup*, pother, puff, rack, scud … New thesaurus
cloud — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. haze (see cloudiness, obscurity); flight (see assemblage). II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Fog at a distance from the earth] Syn. haze, mist, rack, fogginess, haziness, film, puff, billow, frost, nebula,… … English dictionary for students
rack — rack1 noun 1》 a framework for holding or storing things. ↘a vertically barred holder for animal fodder. 2》 a cogged or toothed bar or rail engaging with a wheel or pinion, or using pegs to adjust the position of something. 3》 (the rack)… … English new terms dictionary
rack — {{11}}rack (n.1) frame with bars, c.1300, possibly from M.Du. rec framework, related to recken stretch out, cognate with O.E. reccan to stretch out, from P.Gmc. *rakjanan (Cf. O.N. rekja, O.Fris. reza, O.H.G. recchen, Ger. recken, Goth … Etymology dictionary
rack — I. noun Etymology: Middle English rak rain cloud, rapid movement Date: 14th century a wind driven mass of high often broken clouds II. intransitive verb Date: 1590 to fly or scud in high wind III. noun Etymology: Middle English, probably from… … New Collegiate Dictionary
rack — English has no fewer than four distinct words rack. The oldest, ‘framework’ [14], was borrowed from Dutch rak, which was probably a derivative of the Middle Dutch verb recken ‘stretch’. Rack ‘destruction’ [16], now used only in the phrase rack… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
rack — English has no fewer than four distinct words rack. The oldest, ‘framework’ [14], was borrowed from Dutch rak, which was probably a derivative of the Middle Dutch verb recken ‘stretch’. Rack ‘destruction’ [16], now used only in the phrase rack… … Word origins
