rank

Meaning

Noun

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

Adv

Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

Verb

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

Concepts

rank

grade

level

class

status

position

row

degree

line

order

file

title

place

classify

standard

dignity

rate

range

station

turn

amount

quality

foul

caste

rancid

column

series

luxuriant

standing

fetid

category

chapter

sort

tier

office

type

downright

condition

echelon

hierarchy

locate

evaluate

prestige

foul-smelling

stinking

rotten

strong-smelling

post

step

absolute

sheer

flagrant

gross

social status

rampant

train

sequence

set

stinky

put

social standing

precedence

noisome

stale

distinction

nobility

social stratum

genus

kind

arrant

utter

lush

overgrown

exuberant in growth

out-and-out

right-down

crying

egregious

glaring

outrank

rank and file

membership

social rank

social station

fertile

enlist

string

succession

rating

seat

blatant

designation

reeking

site

extent

importance

classification

stage

end

height

tidy

gon

gradian

consider as

rung

company officer

gaoler

jailer

old man

what number

ranking order

be located

be ranked

same rank

judge

bad-smelling

sour

splendour

breed

genera

point

preferment

stand high

species

variety

number

putrid

malodorous

offensive

rusty

state

strong

superiority

sphere

colonnade

situation

regularity

consummate

thorough-going

be dense

be thick

ship

order of precedence

lascivious

lewd

mark

pitch

design

streak

stripe

beetle

feature

jut out

overhang

protrude

filch

flight

inning

suit

neatness

orderliness

trim

abnormal

exceeding

excess

exorbitant

extravagant

fulsome

hyperbolic

immoderate

inordinate

profuse in

steep

undue

vaulting

whopping

clumpy

crass

slapstick

array

level number

class rating

degree of relationship

appellation

caption

heading

inscription

style

be luxuriant

form

barefaced

musty

smell bad

account

scale value

strength

value

worth

bearing

capacity

depot

drive

military position

posture

shoes

stand

smelly

axiomatic

writ large

foetid

niffy

odoriferous

astringent

cutting

fulgurating

nippy

permeating

piercing

prickly

pungent

sharp

sticking out

stinging

tangy

bank

block

true

instal

base

deploy

dispose

embed

emplace

fort

fund

grubstake

inset

install

invest

lay

marshal

plant

put up

seed

set up

situate

come out

stirred up

untended

opportune moment

fruitful

productive

honor

social position

family

origin

honorary title

formulate

odious

troops

ladder

identity

posts

line up

categories

equal

same

wait

qualifications

arrange

enumerate

stairs

Engelse vertaling

case

issue

mister

phase

name

pillar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹæŋk/

Etymology

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.