Rank

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rank \Rank\ (r[a^][ng]k), a. [Compar. {Ranker}
     (r[a^][ng]k"[~e]r); superl. {Rankest}.] [AS. ranc strong,
     proud; cf. D. rank slender, Dan. rank upright, erect, Prov.
     G. rank slender, Icel. rakkr slender, bold. The meaning seems
     to have been influenced by L. rancidus, E. rancid.]
     1. Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown


        to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
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              And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one
              stalk, rank and good.                 --Gen. xli. 5.
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     2. Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter;
        as, rank heresy. "Rank nonsense." --Hare. "I do forgive
        thy rankest fault." --Shak.
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     3. Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich
        and fertile; as, rank land. --Mortimer.
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     4. Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell;
        rank-smelling rue. --Spenser.
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     5. Strong to the taste. "Divers sea fowls taste rank of the
        fish on which they feed." --Boyle.
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     6. Inflamed with venereal appetite. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     {Rank modus} (Law), an excessive and unreasonable modus. See
        {Modus}, 3.
  
     {To set} (the iron of a plane, etc.) {rank}, to set so as to
        take off a thick shaving. --Moxon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rank \Rank\, adv.
     Rankly; stoutly; violently. [Obs.]
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           That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell.
                                                    --Fairfax.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rank \Rank\, n. [OE. renk, reng, OF. renc, F. rang, fr. OHG.
     hring a circle, a circular row, G. ring. See {Ring}, and cf.
     {Range}, n. & v.]
     1. A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of
        osiers.
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              Many a mountain nigh
              Rising in lofty ranks, and loftier still. --Byron.
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     2. (Mil.) A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed
        to file. See 1st {File}, 1
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                  Fierce, fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,
                  In ranks and squadrons and right form of war.
                                                    --Shak.
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     3. Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or
        nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.
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     4. An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent
        social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders
        of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of
        other intelligent beings.
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     5. Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in
        civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer
        of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.
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              These all are virtues of a meaner rank. --Addison.
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     6. Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social
        position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.
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     {Rank and file}.
        (a) (Mil.) The whole body of common soldiers, including
            also corporals. In a more extended sense, it includes
            sergeants also, excepting the noncommissioned staff.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rank \Rank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ranked} (r[a^][ng]kt); p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Ranking}.]
     1. To place abreast, or in a line.
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     2. To range in a particular class, order, or division; to
        class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable
        classes or order; to classify.
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              Ranking all things under general and special heads.
                                                    --I. Watts.
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              Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.
                                                    --Broome.
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              Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft. --Dr.
                                                    H. More.
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     3. To take rank of; to outrank. [U.S.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rank \Rank\, v. i.
     1. To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular
        degree, class, order, or division.
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              Let that one article rank with the rest. --Shak.
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     2. To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the
        orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree
        of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first
        class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rank
       adj 1: very fertile; producing profuse growth; "rank earth"
       2: very offensive in smell or taste; "a rank cigar"
       3: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a
          crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of
          human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude";
          "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: {crying(a)}, {egregious},
           {flagrant}, {glaring}, {gross}]
       4: complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes
          used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an
          absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem";
          "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down
          vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer
          stupidity" [syn: {absolute}, {downright}, {out-and-out(a)},
           {rank(a)}, {right-down}, {sheer(a)}]
       5: growing profusely; "rank jungle vegetation"
       n 1: a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police)
            standing abreast of one another; "the entrance was
            guarded by ranks of policemen"
       2: relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and
          seniority"
       3: the ordinary members of an organization (such as the
          enlisted soldiers of an army); "the strike was supported
          by the union rank and file"; "he rose from the ranks to
          become a colonel" [syn: {rank and file}]
       4: position in a social hierarchy; "the British are more aware
          of social status than Americans are" [syn: {social station},
           {social status}, {social rank}]
       5: the body of members of an organization or group; "they
          polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their
          own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed" [syn:
          {membership}]
       v 1: take or have a position relative to others; "This painting
            ranks among the best in the Western World"
       2: assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these
          students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food
          guide" [syn: {rate}, {range}, {order}, {grade}, {place}]
       3: take precedence or surpass others in rank [syn: {outrank}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  741 Moby Thesaurus words for "rank":
     English horn, IC analysis, Indian file, KP, abject, abominable,
     absolute, abundant, adjust, align, alphabetize, analyze, ancestry,
     antecede, appositive, appraise, appreciate, aristocracy,
     aristocraticalness, army, army group, arrange, arrant, array,
     articulation, ascendancy, assess, assort, atrocious, attribute,
     attributive, authority, awful, bad, bad-smelling, bank, barfy,
     base, bassoon, battalion, battery, battle group, be distinguished,
     be regarded, be thought of, bearings, beastly, beggarly,
     beneath contempt, birth, black, blamable, blameworthy, blatant,
     block flute, blood, blown, blue, blue blood, bolt, bombard,
     bourdon, bracket, brackish, branch, break down, brigade, broad,
     broken, brutal, bulk, bumpy, buzz, cachet, cadre, call, capacity,
     capital, case, caste, catalog, categorize, category, catena,
     catenation, cello, chain, chain reaction, chaining, character,
     cheesy, choppy, circumstance, circumstances, clan, claribel,
     clarinet, clarion, class, classical, classify, cloying, coarse,
     coarse-grained, codify, cohort, collate, column, combat command,
     combat team, come before, come first, company, complement,
     complete, concatenation, concert flute, condition, connection,
     consecution, consequence, conspicuous, construction modifier,
     consummate, contemptible, continuity, continuum, cool off, cornet,
     cornopean, corps, corrugated, corrupt, count, course, crappy,
     crass, criminal, cromorna, cross-grained, crummy, cutting, cycle,
     cymbel, damnable, dank, dark, debased, decided, deep structure,
     definitive, degraded, degree, dense, deplorable, deploy, depraved,
     descent, despicable, detachment, detail, detestable, diapason,
     digest, dignity, dire, direct object, dirty, disagreeable,
     disgraceful, disgusting, dispose, distinction, divide, division,
     downright, dreadful, drone, dulciana, earthy, echelon, egregious,
     eminence, employees, endless belt, endless round, enlarge,
     enormous, estate, estimate, evaluate, evil, execrable, exuberant,
     face, fecal, feculent, fertile, fetid, field army, field train,
     figure, file, filiation, filler, filthy, fix, flagitious, flagrant,
     flourishing, flute stop, flyblown, flying column, footing, form,
     form an estimate, form-function unit, formation, foul,
     foundation stop, fourniture, frank, front, frowsty, frowy, frowzy,
     fructuous, fulsome, function, funky, fusty, gamba, gamut, gamy,
     garrison, gauge, gedeckt, gemshorn, genteelness, gentility,
     give an appreciation, glaring, gloppy, go ahead of, go before,
     go in advance, gradate, gradation, grade, graduate, grainy,
     granulated, grave, graveolent, greatness, grievous, gross, group,
     grouping, grown, guess, gunky, gutter, harmonic flute, harmonize,
     hateful, have priority, head, head the table, head up, heading,
     heavy, heinous, hierarchize, hierarchy, high, high place,
     high-tasted, homespun, honorable descent, horrible, horrid,
     horripilant, hum, humid, hybrid stop, icky, ill-smelling,
     immediate constituent analysis, immodest, impenetrable, importance,
     improper, indecent, indecorous, index, indirect object, inequal,
     infamous, influence, influentialness, iniquitous, intolerable,
     irregular, jam, jolty, jungled, jungly, kick off, kin,
     kitchen police, knavish, koppel flute, kudos, label, lamentable,
     larigot, lavish, lay out, lead, lead off, legion, level, levels,
     line, line up, lineage, linsey-woolsey, list, little, loathsome,
     location, lot, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, lurid, lush,
     luxuriant, maggoty, make an estimation, malodorous, mangy, maniple,
     mark, marshal, match, mawkish, mean, measly, measure, melodia,
     mephitic, methodize, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy,
     miserable, mixture, modality, mode, modifier, moldy, moment,
     monotone, monstrous, mucky, musty, mutation stop, nasty, naughty,
     nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nazard, nefarious, nexus, nidorous,
     nobility, noble birth, nobleness, noisome, normalize, noticeable,
     notorious, noxious, object, obnoxious, oboe, obscene, octave,
     odious, odorous, off, off color, offensive, olid, order, ordurous,
     organ stop, organization, organize, out-and-out, outfit,
     outrageous, outrank, outright, outstanding, overgrown, overripe,
     overrun, pacify, paltry, pass, peccant, peerage, pendulum, perfect,
     periodicity, petty, phalanx, phrase structure, piccolo, pickle,
     pigeonhole, pimply, pitiable, pitiful, pitted, place, platoon,
     play first fiddle, plein jeu, plenum, plight, pocky, poisonous,
     poky, poor, pornographic, posaune, position, positive, posse,
     posture, potholed, powder train, power, power structure, precede,
     precedence, precious, predicament, predicate, pressure, prestige,
     principal, priority, prize, productive, profound, profuse,
     progression, prolific, prominence, pronounced, proper, proportion,
     puky, pungent, putrid, qualifier, quality, queue, quiet, quint,
     quintaten, race, rampant, rancid, range, rank first, rank out,
     ranket, ranks, rate, rating, raunchy, raw, reasty, reasy,
     rebarbative, reckon, recurrence, reechy, reed stop, reeking, reeky,
     regiment, register, regrettable, regular, regularize, regulate,
     reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repulsive, reticulation,
     riddle, riotous, ripply, risque, rohr flute, rotation, rotten,
     rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, round, routine,
     routinize, row, royalty, rubric, ruffled, run, rutted, rutty, sad,
     scabby, scale, scandalous, scatological, schlock, screen, scrubby,
     scruffy, scummy, scurfy, scurvy, section, seniority, separate,
     sept, sequence, serial order, series, sesquialtera, set, set up,
     shabby, shagged, shaggy, shallow structure, shameful, shameless,
     shattering, shawm, sheer, shitty, shocking, shoddy, sickening,
     sieve, sift, sinful, single file, situation, size, slabby, slimy,
     sloppy, sloshy, slot, slot and filler, sludgy, slushy, small,
     smellful, smelling, smelly, smutty, soldiers, sordid, sort,
     sort out, sour, spectrum, sphere, spitz flute, spoiled, sposhy,
     spot, squad, squadron, squalid, staff, stage, stale, stand,
     stand first, standardize, standing, star, stark, stark-staring,
     state, station, stature, status, stenchy, stinking, stop,
     stopped diapason, stopped flute, strain, strata, stratum, string,
     string diapason, string out, string stop, strong, strong-flavored,
     strong-tasting, structure, stuffy, subdivide, subdivision,
     subgroup, subject, suborder, subordinate, subordination,
     succession, sulfurous, superabundant, superiority, superlative,
     surface structure, surpassing, swath, syntactic analysis,
     syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, systematize, tabulate,
     tactical unit, tagmeme, tainted, take precedence, task force,
     terrible, textured, the veriest, thick, thorough, thoroughgoing,
     thread, tier, tierce, title, too bad, total, train, tranquilize,
     tremolo, trombone, troop, trumpet, turned, twelfth, type,
     unalloyed, unbearable, unclean, unconscionable, uncouth,
     unda maris, undeniable, underlying structure, undiluted,
     unequivocal, uneven, unforgivable, unit, unkempt, unlevel,
     unmentionable, unmitigated, unpardonable, unpolished, unqualified,
     unrefined, unrelieved, unsmooth, unspeakable, unspoiled, ununiform,
     unweeded, unworthy, usher in, utter, valuate, value, vibrato,
     vicious, vile, villainous, viola, voix celeste, vomity,
     vox angelica, vox humana, vulgar, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy,
     weevily, weight, weightiness, wicked, wimpled, windrow, wing,
     woeful, word arrangement, word order, workers, wormy, worst,
     worthless, wretched, wrong, yecchy, yucky
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  RANK, n.  Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.
  
      He held at court a rank so high
      That other noblemen asked why.
      "Because," 'twas answered, "others lack
      His skill to scratch the royal back."
                                                            Aramis Jukes