Difference between Rack and Stand

What is the difference between Rack and Stand?

Rack as a noun is a series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other while Stand as a noun is a defensive position or effort.

Rack

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other a frame on which to hang various items. a device used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits. a pair of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk). a cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs a hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game. a woman's breasts. a friction device for abseiling, consisting of 5 or more metal bars on a frame, around which the rope is threaded. Also rappel rack, abseil rack.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To place in or hang on a rack To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table. To strike a male in the groin with the knee. stretch joints of a person To fly, as vapour or broken clouds To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.

Example sentence: I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.

Stand

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be upright, support oneself on the feet in an erect position.To rise to one's feet; to stand up.To remain motionless.To act as an umpire.To undergo; withstand; hold up.To tolerate.To place in an upright or standing position.To seek election

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A defensive position or effort.A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.A period of performance in a given location or venue.A device to hold something upright or aloft.The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.(forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait: taxi stand.grandstandA partnership.A single set, as of arms.

Example sentence: The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

We hope you now know whether to use Rack or Stand in your sentence.

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