rank

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
2. (countable, uncountable) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
3. (countable, uncountable) The value of a playing card.
4. (countable, uncountable) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
5. (countable, uncountable) One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
6. (countable, uncountable) The level of one's position in a class-based society.
7. (countable, uncountable) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
8. (countable, uncountable) A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
9. (countable, uncountable) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
10. (countable, uncountable) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
11. (countable, uncountable) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
12. (countable, uncountable) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
13. (countable, uncountable) The size of any basis of a given matroid.

Adj

1. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
2. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
3. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
4. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
5. (informal, obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
6. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
7. (emphatic, intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.
8. (obsolete) lustful; lascivious

Adv

Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

Verb

1. (transitive) To place abreast or in a line.
2. (intransitive) To have a ranking.
3. (transitive) To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
4. (US, transitive) To take the rank of; to outrank.

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Sinonieme

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Vertalings

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Stand

posto

grado

Reihe

Stufe

fila

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Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ɹæŋk/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: rank

Verwante met Frans: rang

Verwante met Old High German: hring

Verwante met Old Frisian: hring

Verwante met Old English: hring

Verwante met Old Norse: hringr

In summary

From Middle English rank (“line, row”), from Old French ranc, rang, reng (“line, row, rank”) (Modern French rang), from Frankish *hring (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“something bent or curved”).
Akin to Old High German (h)ring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring, hrincg (“ring”), Old Norse hringr (“ring, circle, queue, sword; ship”). Doublet of ring and rink.