1rank1 (ræŋk
)
Definitions
noun
- a position, esp an official one, within a social organization, esp the armed forces ⇒
the rank of captain
- high social or other standing; status
- a line or row of people or things
- the position of an item in any ordering or sequence
- British a place where taxis wait to be hired
- a line of soldiers drawn up abreast of each other Compare file1 (sense 5)
- any of the eight horizontal rows of squares on a chessboard
- (in systemic grammar) one of the units of description of which a grammar is composed. Ranks of English grammar are sentence, clause, group, word, and morpheme
- music a set of organ pipes controlled by the same stop
- mathematics (of a matrix) the largest number of linearly independent rows or columns; the number of rows (or columns) of the nonzero determinant of greatest order that can be extracted from the matrix
- See break ranks
- See close ranks
- See pull rank
verb
- (tr) to arrange (people or things) in rows or lines; range
- to accord or be accorded a specific position in an organization, society, or group
- (tr) to array (a set of objects) as a sequence, esp in terms of the natural arithmetic ordering of some measure of the elements ⇒
to rank students by their test scores
- (intr) to be important; rate ⇒
money ranks low in her order of priorities
- mainly US to take precedence or surpass in rank ⇒
the colonel ranks at this camp
Word Origin
C16: from Old French ranc row, rank, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German hring circle2rank2 (ræŋk)
Definitions
adjective
- showing vigorous and profuse growth ⇒
rank weeds
- highly offensive or disagreeable, esp in smell or taste
- (prenominal) complete or absolute; utter ⇒
a rank outsider
- coarse or vulgar; gross ⇒
his language was rank
Alternative Forms
ˈrankly adverb ˈrankness nounWord Origin
Old English ranc straight, noble; related to Old Norse rakkr upright, Dutch, Swedish rank tall and thin, weakSynonyms
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Rank
Definitions
noun
- J(oseph) Arthur, 1st Baron. 1888–1972, British industrialist and film executive, whose companies dominated the British film industry in the 1940s and 1950s
- Otto (ˈɔto). 1884–1939, Austrian psychoanalyst, noted for his theory that the trauma of birth may be reflected in certain forms of mental illness
Translations
- British English:
rank
Someone's rank is their position in an organization, or in society....the rank of captain.ræŋk NOUN ...the rank of captain.
- Spanish:
rango
nm
- French:
rang
nm
- German:
Rang
nm Ränge
- Chinese: 等级 n
- Arabic: مَكَانَة n
- Portuguese: posição nf
- Russian: ранг nm
- Croatian: rang nm
- Czech: hodnost nf
- Danish: rang nutr
- Dutch: rang nm
- Finnish: arvoasema n
- Greek: ιεραρχικός βαθμός nm
- Italian: rango nm
- Japanese: 階級 n
- Korean: 계층 n
- Norwegian: rang nm
- Polish: ranga nm
- Brazilian Portuguese: posição nf
- European Spanish:
rango
nm
- Swedish: rang nutr
- Thai: ตำแหน่ง n
- Turkish: rütbe n
- Vietnamese: vị trí n
- British English:
rank
A rank of people or things is a row of them.Ranks of police in riot gear stood nervously by.ræŋk NOUN Ranks of police in riot gear stood nervously by.
- Spanish:
fila
nf
- French:
rangée
nf
- German:
Reihe
nf
- Chinese: 行列 n
- Arabic: صَفّ n
- Portuguese: fileira nf
- Russian: шеренга nf
- Croatian: red nm
- Czech: řada nf
- Danish: række nutr
- Dutch: rij n
- Finnish: rivi n
- Greek: σειρά nf
- Italian: riga nf
- Japanese: 列 n
- Korean: 열 n
- Norwegian: rekke nm
- Polish: szereg nm
- Brazilian Portuguese: fileira nf
- European Spanish:
fila
nf
- Swedish: rad nutr
- Thai: แถว n
- Turkish: sıra n
- Vietnamese: dãy n
- British English:
rank
When someone or something is ranked a particular position, they are at that position on a scale.The tennis player ranks 20th in the world. IT proficiency ranks alongside reading and writing as one of the most important basic abilities.ræŋk VERB The tennis player ranks 20th in the world. IT proficiency ranks alongside reading and writing as one of the most important basic abilities.
- Spanish: estar clasificado v
- French:
classer
v
- German: zählen zu v
- Chinese: 排列 v
- Arabic: يَحْتَلُّ مَكَانَة v
- Portuguese: figurar v
- Russian: располагать в ряд v
- Croatian: nanizati nm
- Czech: zařadit (se) mezi v řadit (se) mezi
- Danish: rangere v
- Dutch: de hoogste positie bekleden v
- Finnish: olla arvoltaan v
- Greek: ταξινομώ v
- Italian: classificare v
- Japanese: ランク付けする v
- Korean: 위치하게 하다 v
- Norwegian: rangere v
- Polish: zaliczać się v zaliczyć się
- Brazilian Portuguese: figurar v
- European Spanish: estar clasificado v
- Swedish: ha en plats v
- Thai: จัดแถว v
- Turkish: sıralamak v
- Vietnamese: giữ vị trí v
Usage examples
The Raiders were much less respectful of rank than the Defenders.
, TREASON KEEP (2001)We estimated survival curves according to the Kaplan-Meier procedure and compared treatments by using the log rank test.
British Medical Journal (2002)He retired with the rank of corporal in 1955, joining his parents on their B. C. orchard.
Globe and Mail (2003)In comparison to other Irish courses, say Mount Juliet, Druid's Glen, or particularly Portmarnock, it belongs in the second rank.
Glasgow Herald (2001)Robbie Douglas had never been knighted, but he was well born and a man-at-arms, and Thomas's men had given him the rank.
, The Grail Quest (3) HERETIC (2004)