Wine Definition–noun | 1. | the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less. | | 2. | a particular variety of such fermented grape juice: port and sherry wines. | | 3. | the juice, fermented or unfermented, of various other fruits or plants, used as a beverage, sauce, etc.: gooseberry wine; currant wine. | | 4. | a dark reddish color, as of red wines. | | 6. | something that invigorates, cheers, or intoxicates like wine. | | 7. | British. | a. | a social gathering at which wine is the major beverage. | | b. | a party, esp. one held by university students, for drinking wine. | | | 8. | Obsolete. intoxication due to the drinking of wine. | –adjective –verb (used with object) | 10. | to supply with wine: He wined his cellar with rare vintages. | –verb (used without object) —Idioms | 12. | new wine in old bottles, something new placed in or superimposed on an old or existing form, system, etc. Matt. 9:17. | | 13. | wine and dine, to entertain lavishly: They wined and dined us in order to get us to sign the new contract. | |
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Rack Definition–noun | 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. |
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| 3. | a spreading framework set on a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or the like, in large loads. | | 4. | Pool. | a. | a wooden frame of triangular shape within which the balls are arranged before play. | | b. | the balls so arranged: He took aim at the rack. | | | 5. | Machinery. | a. | a bar, with teeth on one of its sides, adapted to engage with the teeth of a pinion (rack and pinion) or the like, as
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for converting circular into rectilinear motion or vice versa. | | b. | a bar having a series of notches engaging with a pawl or the like. | | | 6. | a former instrument of torture consisting of a framework on which a victim was tied, often spread-eagled, by the wrists and ankles, to be slowly stretched by spreading the parts of the framework. | | 7. | a cause or state of intense suffering of body or mind. | | 11. | Slang. a bed, cot, or bunk: I spent all afternoon in the rack. | –verb (used with object) | 12. | to torture; distress acutely; torment: His body was racked with pain. | | 13. | to strain in mental effort: to rack one's brains. | | 14. | to strain by physical force or violence. | | 15. | to strain beyond what is normal or usual. | | 16. | to stretch the body of (a person) in torture by means of a rack. | | 17. | Nautical. to seize (two ropes) together side by side. | —Verb phrases | 18. | rack out, Slang. to go to bed; go to sleep: I racked out all afternoon. | | 19. | rack up, | a. | Pool. to put (the balls) in a rack. | | b. | Informal. to tally, accumulate, or amass as an achievement or score: The corporation racked up the greatest profits in its history. | | |
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