a position, esp an official one, within a social organization, esp the armed forces

high social or other standing; status

a line or row of people or things

the position of an item in any ordering or sequence

a place where taxis wait to be hired

a line of soldiers drawn up abreast of each other

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

a set of organ pipes controlled by the same stop

(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

to arrange (people or things) in rows or lines; range

to accord or be accorded a specific position in an organization, society, or group

to array (a set of objects) as a sequence, esp in terms of the natural arithmetic ordering of some measure of the elements

to be important; rate

to take precedence or surpass in rank

showing vigorous and profuse growth

highly offensive or disagreeable, esp in smell or taste

complete or absolute; utter

coarse or vulgar; gross

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