rank
see also: Rank
Pronunciation
Rank
Proper noun
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see also: Rank
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹæŋk/
From Middle English rank, from Old English ranc, from Proto-West Germanic *rank, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-.
Adjectiverank (comparative ranker, superlative rankest)
- (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.
- rank grass
- rank weeds
- Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
- rank land
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC ↗:
- fow Sprat or Fullum Barley, which is the best for rank Land, because it doth not run ſo much to Straw
- 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 ↗, 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 […]
- Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
- Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
- Synonyms: stinky, smelly, pongy
- Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?
- 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC ↗:
- Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they ordinarily feed.
- (informal) Gross, disgusting, foul.
- Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
- Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
- (intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.
- Synonyms: thorough, virulent
- rank treason
- rank nonsense
- I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith.
- (obsolete) lustful; lascivious
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene iii]:
- the ewes being rank,
In end of autumn turned to the rams
- German: geil (archaic)
- French: malodorant, rance
- German: stinkend
- Italian: puzzolente
- Portuguese: rançoso
- Russian: воню́чий
- Spanish: rancio
- German: ekelhaft
- Italian: ripugnante, repellente
- Portuguese: repugnante
- Russian: отврати́тельный
- Spanish: repugnante
rank
- (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:
- The seely man seeing him ryde so rancke, / And ayme at him, fell flat to ground for feare […] .
- 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC ↗:
- That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell.
From Middle English rank, from Old French ranc, rang, reng (Modern French rang), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.
Akin to Old High German hring, ofs hring, Old English hring, Old Norse hringr. Doublet of ring and rink.
Nounrank
A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers. - Antonyms: file
- The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.
- 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC ↗:
- Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs […] .
(chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number). - Antonyms: file
- (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. - (typically in the plural) 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
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.
- (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.
- 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
rank (ranks, present participle ranking; simple 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.
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC ↗:
- Ranking all things under general and special heads.
- 1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC ↗:
- Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.
- 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC ↗:
- Heresy [is] ranked with idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, murders, and other sins of the flesh.
- (US) To take rank of; to outrank.
- French: ranger
- Portuguese: enfileirar
- French: classer
- German: an einer Stelle stehen, rangieren
- Portuguese: ranquear
- Spanish: clasificar
- French: coter
- Italian: annoverare
Rank
Proper noun
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