(n.) A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.
(n.) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
(n.) A football field.
Example Sentences:
(1) But all of that has been overshadowed by acts of violence away from the gridiron.
(2) A gridiron incision is excellent for operations for palpable hernias.
(3) Rugby Union, Rugby League, American Football (gridiron), boxing, etc.
(4) In addition, cervical injuries in gridiron football and rugby are outlined.
(5) He dislikes the clubiness of Washington and broke with tradition earlier this year by failing to attend a similar function, the Gridiron dinner.
(6) And while it's true that gridiron jocks can't seem to perform unless interrupted every 10 seconds by schmaltzy corporations peddling their wares, brass bands booming across the pitch and cheerleaders wiggling and jiggling like wind-up titillators, it's also true that American spectators do at least get what they're promised - it may take five hours but eventually they will see 60 minutes of football.
(7) The appearance comes after Obama decided to skip the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, a white-tie affair at which the president traditionally engages in comic skits with senior members of the press corps.
(8) Ominously, the Chargers’ new gridiron stadium has been stuck in bureaucratic gridlock for nearly a decade.
(9) In only 6% of patients was no abnormality found at operation, and in every case the disorder was dealt with through the gridiron incision.
(10) 12.30am GMT Tweet Graham Parker (@KidWeil) @busfield Tonight's games both old school MLS spectacles - gridiron markings on fields for both New England and Seattle games November 3, 2013 12.29am GMT 19 mins It was Nguyen showing the value of the man-on-the-post for corners there, chesting away Myers' header.
(11) He’s our hero, the gridiron savior riding in from the west (well, Hueytown, Alabama, anyway) to awaken Florida State football from its long spell of mediocrity, leading the Seminoles to their first national championship game in 15 years.
(12) Bobby Jindal , fresh off of his audience-slaying comedy routine at the annual Gridiron Club dinner this past weekend.
(13) "Ian Johnson, a former Boise State, All-American, Running Back, in American Gridiron Football, used to crochet all the time," reports Scott Davenport.
(14) Such an arrangement could be beneficial for both sports as footballers have complained about the state of the pitch after gridiron games while NFL players have said the turf cuts up too easily and leads to injury.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest For four quarters, America (and some around the world) tuned in as the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers obliterated each other on the gridiron.
(16) They have the Rooney Rule in gridiron because they similarly had a high number of black players but no black coaches.
(17) We’re going to see the field covered in gridiron markings for the upcoming Seattle Seahawks game — a situation that a grim-faced Sounders GM Adrian Hanauer pointedly feels could have been avoided: It’s the unfortunate reality of a two professional-team stadium with the timing.
(18) The wise heads that run the NFL have clearly not missed the fact that Londoners are going absolutely gangbusters for gridiron.
(19) The state divide led to a number of cross-border skirmishes in the American civil war, which continued in the form of university football (gridiron) fans killing each other in the stands in the early 20th century.
Rack
Definition:
(n.) Same as Arrack.
(n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
(n.) A wreck; destruction.
(n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
(v. i.) To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.
(v.) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.
(n.) A fast amble.
(v. t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.
(a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.
(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.
(a.) An instrument for bending a bow.
(a.) A grate on which bacon is laid.
(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.
(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.
(a.) A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.
(a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.
(a.) A distaff.
(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.
(a.) That which is extorted; exaction.
(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.
(v. t.) To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.
(v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.
(v. t.) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.
(v. t.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) More than 250 borrowers contacted the Guardian to tell us how and why they borrowed and how their debts racked up.
(2) When the two sides played here 77 days earlier Stoke had racked up a 5-0 lead by half-time, the first time that had happened to Liverpool since 1976, but this time Hughes’s attackers had no delicacy around the penalty area.
(3) In one clothes shop, with racks of discounted Calvin Klein and DKNY, the manager, Sav, explains what's happened: "In this crisis, the middle classes have been hollowed out."
(4) But Nel said that for Steenkamp to have fallen on to the rack, given she was found with her head slumped over the toilet, she would have had to have got up.
(5) Around 50 suburban Chicago police departments and sheriff’s offices assisted, racking up more than $300,000 in overtime and other costs, according to an analysis that the Daily Herald newspaper published in early October.
(6) Against small diurnal fluctuations, stable vertical gradients (about 1 degree C between tops and bottoms of racks) were observed among one hour averages of room air temperatures.
(7) TfL has tried to minimise congestion by issuing permits for roadworks but said it had encountered a “repeat offender” in BT, which has racked up thousands of pounds in fines.
(8) The prospect of further demonstrations and strikes has raised fears of social unrest in a country that has been racked by street violence for the past 18 months.
(9) The second biggest YouTube channel in July 2014 was DisneyCollector, with its collection of toy-unboxing videos racking up 268m views in the month, putting it ahead of musician Shakira’s 226.6m views.
(10) Contact time (in seconds) to a circular metal rack positioned in the center of the animal activity monitor was also recorded as goal-directed exploratory activity.
(11) The spark for the longest-running protest in modern Tunisian history was lit on 17 December in the town of Sidi Bouzid, in the rural interior of Tunisia, a region of olive groves and agriculture which is racked by vast unemployment, repression and poverty a world away from the riches of the Tunisian tourist coast and the propaganda of Tunisia's "economic miracle".
(12) Removal of a cage from the rack and getting out a rat caused increase in plasma concentrations of corticosterone in its remaining cage mates.
(13) For example, the Pacers lost 107-97 , at home on Tuesday, in a game where their starting center Roy Hibbert's disappearing act reached nearly-comical levels as he racked up 0 points, 0 rebounds, 1 meager assist and four personal fouls in 12 minutes of playing time.
(14) Adoboli racked up the giant losses undetected through three means, Wass said.
(15) Certain smears, such as from semen or from serous fluids where malignancy is suspected or known, must be stained on separate racks.
(16) That enthusiasm for elegant, understated clothing and bags has paid off, as Prada has bucked the downturn to open stores around the world – 63 in the year to last September – and rack up €409m (£352m) in profit in the first three quarters of 2012, a huge rise of 50% year on year, boosted by an increase of 41% in Asian sales.
(17) At any other moment, Chilcot would have been the all-consuming subject of national debate for days or even weeks, with Blair on the rack.
(18) Over the next few years, he racked up a series of successful expeditions to peaks in the Himalayas and elsewhere, including in 1983 the first ascent of the south face of Annapurna II, just shy of 8,000m.
(19) Utensil drying racks were found in 56.0% of the households.
(20) A film based on a smutty book that now litters the racks of every last charity shop.