Sekirov Dictionary

rank

/ˈɹeɪ̯ŋk/

noun 13
adjective 10
verb 4
adverb 1
forms 9
phrases 1

noun13

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the level of authority someone holds in the army or police, showing who gives orders to whom
- Private First Class (PFC) is the second-lowest rank in the Marines.
- He rose up through the ranks of the company, from mailroom clerk to CEO.
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One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
- Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.
- The fancy hotel was of the first rank.
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A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
- a membership drawn from the ranks of wealthy European businessmen
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A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
- The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.
One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
The level of one's position in a class-based society.
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A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
- Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.
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The value of a playing card.
- The ranks are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace.
The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
The size of any basis of a given matroid.
The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.

adjective10

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complete, unmitigated, utter.
- I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith.
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Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
- Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?
Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
(informal) Gross, disgusting, foul.
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Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
- rank weeds
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Headstrong; difficult to control.
- If Safford happens to be driving a "rank" horse, one that insists on getting away fast, he goes along with the rest, […] — 1949
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(no longer used) Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
- The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple […] — 1899
(no longer used) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
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(no longer used) Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
- fow Sprat or Fullum Barley, which is the best for rank Land, because it doth not run so much to Straw — 1707
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(no longer used) lustful; lascivious
- the ewes being rank, In end of autumn turned to the rams — 1596

verb4

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To have a ranking.
- Their defense ranked third in the league.
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To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
- Ranking all things under general and special heads. — 1725
(US) To take the rank of; to outrank.
To place abreast or in a line.

adverb1

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(no longer used) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
- The seely man seeing him ryde so rancke, / And ayme at him, fell flat to ground for feare […]. — 1590

forms

rank'd · ranked · ranking · ranketh · ranks · more rank · ranker · most rank · rankest

Phrases with rank

rank and file
Enlisted soldiers in a military organization, as would be arrayed in a grid pattern with ranks and files.

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