rank
IPA: rˈæŋk
noun
- A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
- (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
- (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality.
- The level of one's position in a class-based society.
- (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
- A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
- (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
- (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
- (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
- (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
- (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.
- A surname.
verb
- To place abreast, or in a line.
- To have a ranking.
- To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
- (US) To take rank of; to outrank.
adjective
- (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
- Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
- Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
- Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
- Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
- Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
- (informal) Gross, disgusting, foul.
- (intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.
- (obsolete) lustful; lascivious
adverb
- (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
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Examples of "rank" in Sentences
- He attained the rank of corporal.
- The miltary ranks are metaphorical.
- Acolyte is the rank of Clergy Helper.
- Discipline in the ranks disintegrated.
- 'Acolyte' is the rank of Clergy Helper.
- Dissension in the ranks of Protestantism.
- Next to the rank is the "V" that normally stands for valor.
- The level of the honours was disconnected from rank and social status.
- The gold champion level is the highest status ranking awarded by the VCR.
- The ranks were designed after paramilitary rank titles of the Sturmabteilung.
- Now in a place so small as Jerusalem, what we call the rank and file really counts.
- I. iii.196 (33,7) How rank soever rounded in with danger] A _rank weed_ is a _high weed_.
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- To connect my previous military service to today†™ s military service in connection to my rank is your mistake, not mine.
- India's second ranked software exporter Infosys said it will begin inducting junior level employees into its consulting division.
- Lieut. Martin says that the bayonets and rifle-barrels of the front rank were sometimes struck and jammed _by bullets from the rear rank_.
- His character is the sum total of all these blobs, textures, and tastes; the word rank, addressed to Gertude, actually makes my mouth go bitter.
- Jim Glassman, you have said, and you have written that the opposition, the outcry was, the result of what you called rank racist nonsense, and it was foolish, and embarrassing.
- TCO, it is rather obvious that a general classification like amateur has little predictive value of a poster’s knowledge and that is why I apply the term rank amateur to describe myself.