There are 2 main translations of rack in Spanish

• 1

  (shelf)

  estante masculine

  (for letters, documents) organizador masculine

  (for baggage) rejilla feminine

  (for baggage) portaequipajes masculine
  bottle rack — botellero masculine
  More example sentences

  • clothes rack — perchero
  • tie rack — corbatero
  • drying rack — tendedero
  English example sentences

  • Thus, north of Kota Bharu, we turned off the main road into a fishing community where the larger freshly landed fish were cleaned and put out to dry on acres of bamboo racks.
  • And if you buy a spice rack with containers, make sure they're what you want.
  • For years characters like these ruled corner store comic racks across North America, earning a loyal fan base and selling hundreds of thousands of copies each month.
  • Knowing your store has a magazine rack with a fresh selection of popular titles gives your customers yet another reason to stop by.
  • Some useful household articles such as letter racks, trays and wooden ladles are also on display.
  • She takes me across to one of the dried food stores where, in racks of jars behind the counter, are birds' nests waiting for their moment in soup.
  • Before you buy the clothes off the racks at the store, someone decides to put them there.
  • Books were sold mostly on wire racks in drug stores and supermarkets.
  • Today, the rack is full of magazines on every fitness subject and activity.
  • I also bought three of these spice racks, which stack into one tower that takes up a lot less space in my tiny apartment.
  • This autumn you will have to wade through Harris Tweed fashion features in the top style magazines and on the racks of the most expensive designer stores.
  • Move coffee tables, magazine racks and plant stands from high-traffic areas.
  • Perhaps it's best to visit when you need to restock your wine rack.
  • And if you prefer to send cards the slow way, many stores have racks of red valentine cards on offer in their stationery department.
  • Tops that look like kurtas hang on the racks in departmental stores in the hip Soho neighborhood of Manhattan.
  • They walked around the store and found a rack of clothes.
  • It's encased in clear plastic as if it has just been pulled from the rack at a drug store.
  • Seen on the glossy racks of a record store it's genuinely shocking.
  • Plenty of magazines line the racks in the grocery stores.
  • The mouse was almost as scared of me as I was of it (it could never have been as scared) and ran for cover under a spice rack.

• 2

  (in pool, snooker)

  triángulo masculine
  English example sentences

  • Megan put her and Alysha's balls in the racks.
  • The balls are gathered in the triangle rack with the black eight-ball in the middle.

• 3

  (for torture)

  potro (de tortura) masculine
  English example sentences

  • One is not bound to regard torture as only present in a mediaeval dungeon where the appliances of rack and thumbscrew or similar devices were employed.
  • When we finally emerged from the cave after an eight-hour trip it was as if we had spent the last eight hours on that medieval instrument of torture, the rack.
  • Confessions were extracted and signed on the rack, and used in the place of truth.

• 1

  (shake)

  sacudir
  to be racked with sth
  More example sentences

  • to be racked with pain — sufrir dolores atroces
  • to be racked with doubt/guilt — estar atormentado por la duda/el remordimiento
  English example sentences

  • Back home he is racked by paranoia, loneliness and inextinguishable desire for Simone.
  • He felt helpless as he watched her fight against the pain that was racking her body.
  • You're wracked now because you cannot make amends.
  • We only have about 5 weeks now until you come home and already I am racked with both apprehension and happiness.
  • He is wracked by fear and exhibits signs of having been tortured.
  • The very instant he touched it, his whole body was wracked by pain.
  • Of course, now that I'm here, I'm suddenly wracked with uncertainty.
  • I must admit that the week before we left I was wracked by anxiety over the idea of crossing the ocean, but in fact, once we were under way it was fine.
  • I was racked with convulsions as I tried to muffle the incessant hacking by stuffing my scarf in my mouth.
  • He blinked as pain wracked his body and paralyzed him momentarily.
  • His fight continues, even when the dreaded disease racks him.
  • The anguish that she felt came pouring out and she cried, shuddering as the sobs wracked her body.
  • But all the authorities are agreed that the worst aspects of crucifixion were the raging thirst and the excruciating cramps that racked the victim till he died.
  • In a city racked by violence for a week, there was yet another shootout on Sunday.
  • Then he tells me that he is racked by self-doubt and is never satisfied with the interviews he has conducted.
  • All of the way home I was racked with curiosity - What was in the briefcase?
  • I was wracked by conflicting feelings this Tuesday.
  • She is racked by irrational guilt that she survived and Hassan did not.
  • By 9.30 I was kneeling beside the phone and the pains were now bringing tears to my eyes but bizarrely I was still racked with doubt.
  • In the seventies we were racked with economic problems like huge inflation and double-digit unemployment.

• 2racking present participle
  

  (cough) convulsivo

  (sobs) incontrolable

Cooking

• 1

  rack of lamb — costillar de cordero masculine
  English example sentences

  • The roast beef was a little on the dry side, but the other racks of meat were well prepared.
  • The oven-roasted rack of lamb, basted with butter and meat juice during the cooking process, was tender, juicy and firm, and served on a bed of sautéd beans.
  • The rack of lamb was crusted with bay leaf and paprika, and expertly sliced at the table in the classic Continental style.
  • With racks of lamb at superb value, as always, you should get one, cut out the individual chops, coat them with honey and mustard and pop them on the barbecue.
  • The food was excellent, and I highly recommend the rack of lamb if it is on the menu.
  • One butcher I spoke to said that you simply could not trim a loin of pork like a rack of lamb.
  • The most popular item on the menu is the rack of lamb with port and redcurrant sauce.
  • Mutton chops are still on the top of the menu, followed by broiled filet mignon, rack of lamb and a thick, crusty veal chop smothered in wild mushrooms.
  • A rack of lamb was like the best sort of outdoor barbecue, rosy, tender with deliciously charred bits that had to be gnawed off the bone.
  • This year sees the addition of an outdoor wood-fired oven in which to cook racks of Sussex lamb and Newhaven lobsters.
  • Two lamb rib racks, joined, are enough for a table of eight or fewer.
  • I've always thought a rack of lamb was the most romantic of meals.
  • Nothing on the list of entrées cracks the $18 mark, despite the presence of sirloin steak, rack of lamb, trout, and salmon dishes.
  • Try the mouth-watering rack of lamb with Yorkshire pudding and rosemary jus - superb food in a superb country.
  • And delicious as it is, the rack of lamb seems unnervingly out of place on a menu alongside sesame noodles.
  • My rack of lamb was baked to perfection and nestled on a bed of peppered savoy and sliced potatoes, augmented by a delicious rosemary and orange jus.
  • For dinner parties, people go for racks of lamb or veal rather than a roast.
  • He made a diced bacon, sun-dried tomato and grated Stilton salad, followed by a rack of lamb on a bed of sweet potatoes with roasted vegetables.
  • The rack of lamb, which I had at a subsequent visit, was four reasonable cutlets, again pink and tender, with a pleasant flavour imparted by the honey and mustard crust.
  • If you're cooking for a lot of people, it makes sense to buy a rack of lamb and trim bits off it.