Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹæŋk/
rank (comparative ranker, superlative rankest)
- Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).
- rank treason
- rank nonsense
- Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
- rank grass
- rank weeds
- Bible, Book of Genesis xli. 5
- And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
- Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524 ↗, part I:
- 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 {{...}
- Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
- rank land
- Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
- Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
- Synonyms: stinky, smelly, pong
- Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?
- Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they feed.
- Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
- Synonyms: complete, utter
- I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith.
- (informal) Gross, disgusting.
- (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
- (obsolete) Inflamed with venereal appetite; ruttish.
- French: malodorant, rance
- German: stinkend
- Italian: puzzolente
- Portuguese: rançoso
- Russian: воню́чий
- German: ekelhaft
- Italian: ripugnante, repellente
- Portuguese: repugnante
- Russian: отврати́тельный
- Spanish: repugnante
rank
- (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:
- The seely man seeing him ryde so rancke, / And ayme at him, fell flat to ground for feare [...].
- That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:
rank
- A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the perpendicular columns in such a pattern is "file"].
- The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.
- (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
- Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.
- The fancy hotel was of the first rank.
The level of one's position in a class-based society a hierarchical level in an organization such as the military - 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.
- (taxonomy) a level in a scientific taxonomy system
- Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.
- (linear algebra) Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
- (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
- (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.
- (chess) one of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number). The analog vertical lines are the files.
- (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation.
- French: registre
- French: rang
- German: Rang; Dienstgrad
- Italian: rango, ceto, condizione sociale
- Russian: класс
- Spanish: rango
- French: rang
- French: rang
- German: Dienstgrad
- Italian: grado, truppa, gregario, rango
- Portuguese: posição
- Russian: ранг
- Spanish: grado
- Italian: rango
- Russian: ранг
rank (ranks, present participle ranking; past and past participle ranked)
- To place abreast, or in a line.
- To have a ranking.
- Their defense ranked third in the league.
- To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
- Ranking all things under general and special heads.
- Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.
- Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft.
- (US) To take rank of; to outrank.
- French: ranger
- Portuguese: enfileirar
- French: classer
- German: an einer Stelle stehen
- Portuguese: ranquear
- Spanish: clasificar
- French: coter
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