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单词 rankness
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
rank1 /ræŋk/USA pronunciation   n. 
  1. a social or official position or standing, as in the armed forces:[countable]the rank of captain.
  2. high position or station:[uncountable]a person of rank.
  3. relative position or standing:[uncountable]a writer of the first rank.
  4. a row or series of things or persons:[countable]The orchestra players were arranged in ranks.
  5. Military ranks, [plural] the members of an armed service apart from its officers;
    enlisted personnel.
  6. 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. 
  1. 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
  1. 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. 
  1. Botanygrowing thickly;
    vigorous:rank foliage.
  2. having an offensive or very unpleasant smell or taste:a rank cigar.
  3. complete;
    utter;
    absolute:[before a noun]a rank amateur.
rank•ness, n. [uncountable]

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
rank1  (rangk),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
  2. a social or official position or standing, as in the armed forces:the rank of captain.
  3. high position or station in the social or some similar scale:a woman of rank.
  4. a class in any scale of comparison.
  5. relative position or standing:a writer of the first rank.
  6. a row, line, or series of things or persons:orchestra players arranged in ranks.
  7. Military ranks:
    • the members of an armed service apart from its officers;
      enlisted personnel.
    • military enlisted personnel as a group.
  8. Usually, ranks. the general body of any party, society, or organization apart from the officers or leaders.
  9. orderly arrangement;
    array.
  10. a line of persons, esp. soldiers, standing abreast in close-order formation (distinguished from file).
  11. British Termsa place or station occupied by vehicles available for hire;
    stand:a taxi rank.
  12. Chessone of the horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard.
  13. Music and Dancea set of organ pipes of the same kind and tonal color.
  14. 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.
  15. Miningthe classification of coal according to hardness, from lignite to anthracite.
  16. 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.
  17. 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. 
  1. to arrange in ranks or in regular formation:The men were ranked according to height. He ranked the chess pieces on the board.
  2. to assign to a particular position, station, class, etc.:She was ranked among the most admired citizens.
  3. to outrank:The colonel ranks all other officers in the squadron.
  4. Slang Termsto insult;
    criticize.

v.i. 
  1. to form a rank or ranks.
  2. to take up or occupy a place in a particular rank, class, etc.:to rank well ahead of the other students.
  3. to have rank or standing.
  4. to be the senior in rank:The colonel ranks at this camp.
  5. Slang Termsto complain.
  • Gmc, akin to ring1
  • French ranc (noun, nominal, obsolete), Old French renc, ranc, rang row, line
  • 1560–70
rank′less, adj. 
    • 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. 
  1. Botanygrowing with excessive luxuriance;
    vigorous and tall of growth:tall rank weeds.
  2. producing an excessive and coarse growth, as land.
  3. having an offensively strong smell or taste:a rank cigar.
  4. offensively strong, as a smell or taste.
  5. utter;
    absolute:a rank amateur; rank treachery.
  6. highly offensive;
    disgusting:a rank sight of carnage.
  7. grossly coarse, vulgar, or indecent:rank language.
  8. Slang Termsinferior;
    contemptible.
  • bef. 1000; Middle English; Old English ranc bold, proud; cognate with Old Norse rakkr straight, bold
rank′ish, adj. 
rank′ly, adv. 
rank′ness, n. 
    • 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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