Rank

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A relative position in a society.
  • noun. An official position or grade.
  • noun. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
  • noun. High or eminent station or position.
  • noun. A row, line, series, or range.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A line of soldiers, vehicles, or equipment standing side by side in close order.
  • noun. The armed forces.
  • noun. Personnel, especially enlisted military personnel.
  • noun. A body of people classed together; numbers.
  • noun. Any of the rows of squares running crosswise to the files on a playing board in chess or checkers.
  • intransitive verb. To place in a row or rows.
  • intransitive verb. To give a particular order or position to; classify.
  • intransitive verb. To outrank or take precedence over.
  • intransitive verb. To hold a particular rank.
  • intransitive verb. To form or stand in a row or rows.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To complain.
  • intransitive verb. To engage in carping criticism. Often used with on:
  • idiom. (pull rank) To use one's superior rank to gain an advantage.
  • adjective. Growing profusely or with excessive vigor.
  • adjective. Yielding a profuse, often excessive crop; highly fertile.
  • adjective. Strong and offensive in odor or flavor.
  • adjective. Absolute; complete: synonym: flagrant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Rankly; strongly; furiously.
  • To become rank.
  • Strong; powerful; capable of acting or of being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
  • Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter: as, rank poison; rank treason; rank nonsense.
  • Strong in growth; growing with vigor or rapidity; hence, coarse or gross: said of plants.
  • Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy, plethoric.
  • Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
  • Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome; rancid: as, a rank taste or odor.
  • Hence Coarse or gross morally; offensive to the mind; obscene; indecent; foul.
  • Ruttish; in heat.
  • In law, excessive; exceeding the actual value: as, a rank modus.
  • In mech., cutting strongly or deeply, as the iron of a plane set so as to project more than usual.
  • Eager; anxious; impatient: as, he was rank to do it.
  • Very angry; in a passion.
  • Unmanageable: said of a racehorse on the track.
  • noun. Specifically, rank in the United States army according to date of last commission.
  • In logging, to haul and pile regularly: as, to rank bark or cord-wood.
  • noun. A name proposed by Perry for the thermodynamic quantity, .
  • To arrange in a rank or ranks; place in a rank or line.
  • To assign to a particular class, order, or division; fix the rank of; class.
  • To take rank of or over; outrank; as, in the United States army, an officer commissioned simply as general ranks all other generals.
  • To dispose in suitable order; arrange; classify.
  • To fix as to state or estimation; settle; establish.
  • To range; give the range to, as a gun in firing.
  • To move in ranks or rows.
  • Word Usage
    "Lieut. Martin says that the bayonets and rifle-barrels of the front rank were sometimes struck and jammed _by bullets from the rear rank_."
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    body  excel  force  line  personnel  
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    Blanc  Franck  Frank  Hank  Montblanc  
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    ability  age  army  authority  ball  
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    file  
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    ranked  ranking  ranks