buzz vs rack

buzz

verb
  • To fly while making such a sound. 

  • To show a high level of activity and haste, energization or excitement, to be busy as a bee in one’s actions but perhaps mentally charged. 

  • Of a group of people, to talk about some interesting topic excitedly. 

  • To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly. 

  • To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. 

  • To fly at high speed and at a very low altitude over a specified area, as to make a surprise pass. 

  • To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice. 

  • To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice. 

  • To cut the hair in a close-cropped military style, or buzzcut. 

  • To communicate with (a person) by means of a buzzer. 

noun
  • Major topic of conversation; widespread rumor; information spread behind the scenes. 

  • Synonym of fizz-buzz (“counting game”) 

  • The audible friction of voiced consonants. 

  • A whisper. 

  • A rush or feeling of energy or excitement; a feeling of slight intoxication. 

  • A continuous humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones. 

  • A telephone call or e-mail. 

rack

verb
  • To fly, as vapour or broken clouds. 

  • To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion. 

  • To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table. 

  • To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm. 

  • To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs. 

  • To cause (someone) to suffer pain. 

  • To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round. 

  • To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace. 

  • To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir. 

  • To place in or hang on a rack. 

  • To torture (someone) on the rack. 

  • To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points). 

  • To strike in the testicles. 

  • To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc. 

  • To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack. 

noun
  • A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow. 

  • Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel. 

  • A distaff. 

  • A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other 

  • A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs. 

  • A woman's breasts. 

  • A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc. 

  • A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded. 

  • A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime 

  • Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky. 

  • A bunk. 

  • A grate on which bacon is laid. 

  • A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk). 

  • Sleep. 

  • A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits. 

  • A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes. 

  • A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game. 

  • A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow. 

  • A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique. 

  • A fast amble. 

  • A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it. 

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