rank
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
biology
board-games
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chess
entertainment
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horse-racing
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linear-algebra
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natural-sciences
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sciences
sports
taxonomy
Etymology: From Middle English rank (“strong, proud”), from Old English ranc (“proud, haughty, arrogant, insolent, forward, overbearing, showy, ostentatious, splendid, bold, valiant, noble, brave, strong, full-grown, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rank, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“straight, direct”). Cognate with Dutch rank (“slender, slim”), Low German rank (“slender, projecting, lank”), Danish rank (“straight, erect, slender”), Swedish rank (“slender, shaky, wonky”), Icelandic rakkur (“straight, slender, bold, valiant”).
Inflected forms:
form: ranker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more rank
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: rankest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most rank
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ranck
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ranks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ranck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ranks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ranking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ranked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ranked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ranck
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: rank grass
rank weeds
And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
gloss: Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: rank land
fow Sprat or Fullum Barley, which is the best for rank Land, because it doth not run ſo much to Straw
gloss: Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 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 […]
gloss: Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
pos: adj
tags: informal
obsolete
gloss: Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: If Safford happens to be driving a "rank" horse, one that insists on getting away fast, he goes along with the rest, […]
gloss: Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
pos: adj
examples: Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?
Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they ordinarily feed.
gloss: complete, unmitigated, utter.
pos: adj
tags: emphatic
intensifier
negative
examples: rank treason
rank nonsense
I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith.
England's domination of the first half was almost total, but they somehow contrived to allow Tunisia to raise themselves off the floor by virtue of rank carelessness from [Gareth] Southgate's side.
Chelsea remain rank outsiders to retain their crown and they still lie 12 points adrift of United, but Ancelotti will regard this as a performance that supports his insistence that they can still have a say when the major prizes are handed out this season.
gloss: lustful; lascivious
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: the ewes being rank,
In end of autumn turned to the rams
gloss: A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.
The Musketeers being on both flancks, firſt firing let the Ranck ſtand, and fire every Ranck, paſſing through before his leader[…]
Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs[…].
gloss: One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The value of a playing card.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The ranks are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace.
gloss: In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.
The fancy hotel was of the first rank.
gloss: The level of one's position in a class-based society.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a membership drawn from the ranks of wealthy European businessmen
Earlier this month police in Norfolk were called after five hives thought to contain around 60,000 bees and £600 worth of honey were taken. [...] Suspicions among beekeepers that the culprits come from their own ranks were underlined by the fact that a bee smoker was left at the scene by someone who presumably knew that it could be used to calm the insects before taking them.
gloss: A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.
gloss: The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The size of any basis of a given matroid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To place abreast or in a line.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, / Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. / […] / His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes / Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnovves vvhere he feeds / His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.
gloss: To have a ranking.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Their defense ranked third in the league.
I vex my heart with fancies dim: / ⁠He still outstript me in the race; / ⁠It was but unity of place / That made me dream I rank’d with him.
gloss: To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Ranking all things under general and special heads.
Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.
Heresy [is] ranked with idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, murders, and other sins of the flesh.
From time to time the coaches of the Lötschberg Railway itself, which in comfort and décor can rank with the finest in Europe today, travel far from the frontiers of Switzerland on through workings such as these.
gloss: To take the rank of; to outrank.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
Derived words: outrank
overrank
ranken
rankful
rankish
rankly
rankness
back rank
back-rank mate
break rank
cab off the rank
cab rank
cab-rank rule
circuit rank
close ranks
coal rank
corank
de-rank
flag rank
full rank
keep rank
Kendall rank correlation coefficient
low-rank
military rank
multirank
ordinal rank
other rank
pull rank
rank-and-file
rank and file
rank-and-filer
rank and yank
rank badge
rank-deficient
rankism
rankist
rankit
rankless
rank-nullity theorem
rank of apparition
rankogram
rank outsider
rankshift
ranksman
rank sum
rankwise
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
S rank
stack rank
subrank
superrank
taxi rank
forerank
derank
disrank
downrank
enrank
misrank
rankability
rankable
rankee
rerank
underrank
unrank
uprank
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: bujný
lang: Czech
word: bujně rostoucí
lang: Esperanto
word: trokreskinta Literally
lang: Esperanto
word: “overgrown”
lang: German
word: geil
lang: Hungarian
word: burjánzó
lang: Hungarian
word: buja
lang: Hungarian
word: dús
lang: Hungarian
word: sűrű
lang: Irish
word: uaibhreach
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: كور
roman: gür