What's the difference between rach and rack?

Rach


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Rache

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Twelve monoclonal antibodies (Mabs) were produced against the attenuated RACH subtype 1 strain of Equid herpesvirus 1.
  • (2) The four villages of Raches are linked by a well-mapped hiking trail, something that is becoming more common in Greece.
  • (3) The embryos were transported by air on the same day to a distant rach where 34 embryos were surgically transferred via the flank into recipient cows.
  • (4) Tunisia: murder of holidaymakers in Sousse could kill tourism and hope Read more The country’s parliamentary Islamists are already worried about much-touted plans to close 80 mosques that have radical preachers, which risks setting the government against religion when the two should be allies in combating extremism, said Rached Ghannouchi, leader of the Ennahda party.
  • (5) Ennahda’s leader, Rached Ghannouchi, who comes from the Gabes region, appealed for calm as some further clashes were reported there on Monday.
  • (6) Updated at 11.41pm BST 11.39pm BST Algeria's goal: After Mesut Ozil had appeared to put the game out of Algeria's rach, the African side managed to pull one back.
  • (7) Postnatal differentiation of the retina proceeds as follows: the irregularly laminated ganglion cell layer of the newborn becomes unilaminar everywhere but in the presumptive area centralis, a difference which is first discernible at five to six days of age; the outer nuclear layer is always of the same thickness in the area centralis, while in the periphery the layer thins with time; the outer nuclear layer is always thinner in the area centralis than in the periphery; inner nuclear layer thickness is invariant early in postnatal life, but in the adult it is thicker in the area centralis than in the near temporal periphery; plexiform layers form by two weeks of age and rach adult thickness thereafter.
  • (8) Freedom to speak out, to demonstrate, media freedom were the most important things we got out of the revolution.” For many voters, an hour-long television interview given by Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi last week, in which he dismissed fears of a return to a one-party dictatorship, was reassuring.
  • (9) The miosis developed fast within 15 min, and maximum miosis was rached within 1 h. Oily drops of pilocarpine induced stronger maximum miosis than corresponding PVA-drops.
  • (10) In the Islamist camp, Nahda's president, Rached Ghannouchi, has come under fierce criticism from those who see him as too conciliatory towards the more conservative currents of Salafist Islamism.
  • (11) May 7, 2015 rach (@rachel_h) So I once signed up to the Telegraph wkly Tech Roundup, so I've received the paper's VOTE TORY begging email.
  • (12) This EHV-1 ISCOM vaccine generated fully protective responses in hamsters challenged with an otherwise lethal dose of the hamster-adapted EHV-1 strain RACH.
  • (13) But it augurs well that outgoing president Moncef Marzouki did eventually recognise his defeat, while Rached Ghannouchi, president of the Islamist party Ennahda, implicitly endorsed Essebsi between the two rounds, assuring everyone that there was no risk of a return to dictatorship.

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.