I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bike rack (= a metal frame that you can attach your bike to )
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All stations should provide bike racks for passengers.
a wire rack
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Bake the biscuits for 10 minutes until golden. Cool on a wire rack.
be consumed with/racked with/overwhelmed by guilt (= feel very guilty )
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Later he was horrified that he had hit her, and was racked by guilt.
coat rack
luggage rack
rack your brains (= try very hard to think of something )
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If we all rack our brains we should come up with some ideas.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
coat
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Heater too close to coat rack . 7.
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The desk is a typical lawyer desk but in miniature, and the coat rack is knee-high.
luggage
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Even the luggage racks contained their quota of sailors, soldiers, or airmen.
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Each day now Phagu went scouting in the jeep, Kamesh driving, he and I perched up on the luggage rack .
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He loaded the bags on to the luggage rack of the Argyll.
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I arrived at the station in good time and chained my travel-bag to the luggage rack .
roof
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Secondly, I want a good ¾ length roof rack for my vehicle but can only locate rather basic utilitarian models.
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People climbed over the bonnet or sat on the roof rack .
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Stacked on the floor around their legs was all the luggage that wouldn't fit on the roof rack .
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A Hillman Imp, a roof rack , the beak of an upturned canoe overshooting its windscreen.
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The roof rack was a test item and did not prove successful.
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Harvey connected the roof rack to two batteries.
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The lights fixed to the roof rack came on, but paper cones prevented them from being visible from the shore line.
wire
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Place the frozen truffles on a wire rack over a baking sheet.
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Let cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then remove to a wire rack .
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Run a blunt knife around the inside edge of the tin and turn out the cake on to a wire rack to cool.
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Remove from baking sheet to a wire rack and let cool for 10 minutes.
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Turn out on to wire rack . 3.
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Remove from baking sheet and let cool completely on wire rack .
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Leave the florentines on a wire rack to set.
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Place ginger on a wire rack to dry for at least an hour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a bicycle rack
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a spice rack
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Let the cake cool on a rack for ten minutes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Make sure the pans are in the center of the rack to allow heat to circulate around them.
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Place the frozen truffles on a wire rack over a baking sheet.
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Swap for rack mounted sound module.
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There are racks and racks of romantic writers and readers online.
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There is a pool then a typical rack to Inverlaidnan Bridge.
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What I hear you saying is that I have lived my life as if I bought my clothes off the rack .
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When the fire is hot, lay the mushrooms on the rack .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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Salomon Brothers paid the ten-thousand-dollar bill racked up by the wife of its mailroom clerk with three months' tenure.
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The Red Baron was through a month or two back, racking up his score.
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He had a racked up a mostly forgettable record in two terms as a Republican backbencher in Reagan-era Washington.
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After a rough start, he racked up a terrific year in 1996.
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CyberCash has racked up a few big customers recently, however.
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Even without the Pombo bill, industry groups have already racked up a string of victories.
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A legal background can help you rack up bonus points in your job search.
■ NOUN
brain
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Which left Fabia racking her brains to think of how next best to get through to the woman.
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She sat back in the seat as she racked her brain before coming to just one conclusion: Harry Martin.
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There was a silence in the room as we all simultaneously racked our brains for a missing disease.
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Rachel racked her brains , trying to remember what Jamie had said of him - ruthless, living only for his ambition.
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I waved back, racking my brains to remember who she was.
guilt
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If Liza had been racked by guilt , now, in a way, so was she.
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Among them was Carmen Azzopardi, who had been racked with guilt after turning down a request from Bernadette to mind Farrah.
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I did some bad stuff to some people to prove myself, but I was racked with guilt .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Adobe racked up $ 46. 9 million in licensing revenues during its latest quarter.
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Everyone could feel the abnormal strains that were now racking the monied world.
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Her face was racked with pain and it was clear that she was very ill.
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If Liza had been racked by guilt, now, in a way, so was she.
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Other times he thrashed all night, thinking nothing, his body cramping, dry, racked, beside itself.
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Sharp pains racked his wasting body.
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Without it, she was racked by a feeling of utter desolation.