Dictionary entry

Wrack

Pronunciation: /rak/

Pronunciation

/rak/

Myanmar Meaning

ရေမျောကမ်းတင် အပင်။ ပင်လယ် ၊ မှော် ၊ ဒိုက်။

Definition

wrack ❍ RACK 2

Examples

  1. ‘Saw wrack is the main seaweed used
  2. taken fresh from the shore
  3. washed in seawater and stored briefly.’
  4. ‘The May scallach
  5. coincident with the week between the full moon and the last quarter
  6. brought one of the greatest yields of wrack of every description and species to the beach at Enniscrone.’
  7. ‘Isopods and amphipods spend low tide buried in wrack
  8. where variation in temperature and humidity is strongly damped relative to the exposed intertidal surface.’
  9. ‘People come to pick over the beach wrack for the coiled
  10. weather-revealed shells.’
  11. ‘Deposited wrack may decompose in place or may be removed by subsequent tides leaving an unvegetated patch of bare soil.’
  12. ‘We are still finding out where wig wrack grows
  13. we have 70+ confirmed sites in Scotland so far and four in Northern Ireland.’
  14. ‘Choose an unpolluted bit of rocky coast and collect a variety of weeds such as kelp and wrack (particularly Asophyllum nodosum)
  15. boil for 15 minutes and add to the bath water.’
  16. ‘However
  17. McLachlan and McGwynne quantified algal wrack as a nitrogen source for beaches as a whole.’
  18. ‘High in the sky
  19. a crescent moon rides through a wrack of cloud.’
  20. ‘And there is blasting thunder in the night
  21. and the soaking millionfooted rain
  22. and one looks out at morning on a stormy sky
  23. a broken wrack of cloud.’
  24. ‘They spent more time underwater then on the dry Egyptian land
  25. saw lots of fish
  26. some ship wracks
  27. dived at night
  28. into caves and at the end of it all got their Advanced Diver certification.’
  29. ‘This ancient chart of the "Spanish wrack" as it is labeled
  30. is owned by the present Duke of Argyll
  31. and has been used by the modern treasure seekers who are unable even with its aid to find the remains of the Florencia
  32. so deeply have her timbers sunk in the tide-swept silt of the bay.’
  33. ‘Together
  34. they collect flotsam and wrack that tell of shipwrecks
  35. shifting undersea tectonic plates
  36. the birth and death of sea creatures
  37. their migrations and molts.’
  38. ‘The discovery of a fishing lure is always a thrill
  39. a karmic giveback for all the lures I’ve lost
  40. a present poking out of the wrack and flotsam
  41. given away by the attached rat's nest of mono filament.’