• IPA: /ɹæŋk/

rank (comparative ranker, superlative rankest)

1. Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).

   rank treason

   rank nonsense

2. 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.

3. 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 {{...}

4. Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.

   rank land

5. Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
6. 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.

7. Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).

   Synonyms: complete, utter

   I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith.

8. (informal) Gross, disgusting.
9. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
10. (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

1. (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.

rank

1. 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.

2. (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
3. 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.

4. The level of one's position in a class-based society
5. 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.

6. (taxonomy) a level in a scientific taxonomy system

   Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.

7. (linear algebra) Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
8. (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
9. (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
10. (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.
11. (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.
12. (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation.

• Portuguese: fileira, coluna
• Russian: ряд
• Spanish: columna

• 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

• French: rangée
• German: Reihe
• Italian: traversa
• Portuguese: fileira
• Russian: горизонта́ль
• Spanish: fila

rank (ranks, present participle ranking; past and past participle ranked)

1. To place abreast, or in a line.
2. To have a ranking.

   Their defense ranked third in the league.

3. 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.

4. (US) To take rank of; to outrank.

• French: ranger
• Portuguese: enfileirar

• French: classer
• German: an einer Stelle stehen
• Portuguese: ranquear
• Spanish: clasificar

• French: coter