rank

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

rang

grade

niveau

rangée

place

ranger

file

condition

dignité

échelon

position

classe

degré

classer

tour

flagrant

coter

ordre

absolu

standing

malodorant

parage

statut social

situation, état

M.

aligné

alignement

calibre

caste

classement

état

fétide

importance

ligne

luxuriant

Mlle

noter

pur

situation

sujet

classe sociale

être classé

exubérant

faire partie

Opposé de

file

Synonymes

grade

level

class

status

position

row

degree

line

order

file

classify

title

place

rate

dignity

range

standard

station

🚉

turn

caste

foul

amount

quality

standing

series

luxuriant

rancid

column

chapter

category

fetid

sort

office

🏢

downright

condition

type

tier

social status

absolute

locate

sheer

hierarchy

gross

rotten

sequence

foul-smelling

flagrant

prestige

post

rampant

Traductions

Rang

rango

rango

rang

posto

Stand

grado

Stufe

Reihe

fila

graad

stand

classe

Niveau

düzey

Prononcé comme (IPA)

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Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: rank

Appartenant à français: rang

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: hring

Appartenant à Old Frisian: hring

Appartenant à ancien anglais: hring

Appartenant à vieux norrois: 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.