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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024rank1 /ræŋk/USA pronunciation n. - a social or official position or standing, as in the armed forces:[countable]the rank of captain.
- high position or station:[uncountable]a person of rank.
- relative position or standing:[uncountable]a writer of the first rank.
- a row or series of things or persons:[countable]The orchestra players were arranged in ranks.
- Military ranks, [plural] the members of an armed service apart from its officers;
enlisted personnel. - Usually, ranks. [plural] the people in a group, or the general body of any organization apart from the officers or leaders:in the ranks of the unemployed.
v. - to (cause to) be assigned to a particular position, class, standing, etc.: [~ + object]to be ranked among the experts.[~ + object + as + object]They ranked him as one of the best pitchers in the world.[no object* not: be + ~-ing]Their work ranked well above that of the other students.
Idioms- Idioms, break ranks:
- to leave an assigned position in a military formation.
- to withdraw support from one's colleagues, political party, or the like.
rank2 /ræŋk/USA pronunciation adj., -er, -est. - Botanygrowing thickly;
vigorous:rank foliage. - having an offensive or very unpleasant smell or taste:a rank cigar.
- complete;
utter;
absolute:[before a noun]a rank amateur.
rank•ness, n. [uncountable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024rank1 (rangk),USA pronunciation n. - a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
- a social or official position or standing, as in the armed forces:the rank of captain.
- high position or station in the social or some similar scale:a woman of rank.
- a class in any scale of comparison.
- relative position or standing:a writer of the first rank.
- a row, line, or series of things or persons:orchestra players arranged in ranks.
- Military ranks:
- the members of an armed service apart from its officers;
enlisted personnel. - military enlisted personnel as a group.
- Usually, ranks. the general body of any party, society, or organization apart from the officers or leaders.
- orderly arrangement;
array. - a line of persons, esp. soldiers, standing abreast in close-order formation (distinguished from file).
- British Termsa place or station occupied by vehicles available for hire;
stand:a taxi rank. - Chessone of the horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard.
- Music and Dancea set of organ pipes of the same kind and tonal color.
- Also called determinant rank. [Math.]the order of the nonzero determinant of greatest order that can be selected from a given matrix by the elimination of rows and columns.
- Miningthe classification of coal according to hardness, from lignite to anthracite.
- break ranks:
- to leave an assigned position in a military formation.
- to disagree with, defect from, or refuse to support one's colleagues, party, or the like.
- pull rank (on), to make use of one's superior rank to gain an advantage over (someone). Also, pull one's rank (on).
v.t. - to arrange in ranks or in regular formation:The men were ranked according to height. He ranked the chess pieces on the board.
- to assign to a particular position, station, class, etc.:She was ranked among the most admired citizens.
- to outrank:The colonel ranks all other officers in the squadron.
- Slang Termsto insult;
criticize.
v.i. - to form a rank or ranks.
- to take up or occupy a place in a particular rank, class, etc.:to rank well ahead of the other students.
- to have rank or standing.
- to be the senior in rank:The colonel ranks at this camp.
- Slang Termsto complain.
- Gmc, akin to ring1
- French ranc (noun, nominal, obsolete), Old French renc, ranc, rang row, line
- 1560–70
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged distinction, eminence, dignity.
- 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged range, tier.
- 9.See corresponding entry in Unabridged alignment.
- 18.See corresponding entry in Unabridged align, range, array.
rank2 (rangk),USA pronunciation adj., -er, -est. - Botanygrowing with excessive luxuriance;
vigorous and tall of growth:tall rank weeds. - producing an excessive and coarse growth, as land.
- having an offensively strong smell or taste:a rank cigar.
- offensively strong, as a smell or taste.
- utter;
absolute:a rank amateur; rank treachery. - highly offensive;
disgusting:a rank sight of carnage. - grossly coarse, vulgar, or indecent:rank language.
- Slang Termsinferior;
contemptible.
- bef. 1000; Middle English; Old English ranc bold, proud; cognate with Old Norse rakkr straight, bold
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged abundant, exuberant.
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged complete, sheer, entire.
- 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged repulsive, repellent. See flagrant.
- 7.See corresponding entry in Unabridged foul.
Rank (rängk),USA pronunciation n. Ot•to (ôt′ō),USA pronunciation 1884–1939, Austrian psychoanalyst.
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