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Rank

raŋk

Rank definitions
noun
rank ranks
  1. a position in the hierarchy of the armed forces

    "an army officer of high rank"

    • a position within the hierarchy of an organization or society

      "only two cabinet members had held ministerial rank before"

    • high social position

      "persons of rank and breeding"

    • a number specifying position in a numerically ordered series
    • (in systemic grammar) the level of a linguistic unit or set of linguistic units in relation to other sets in the hierarchy
  2. a single line of soldiers or police officers drawn up abreast

    "they were drawn up outside their barracks in long ranks"

    • a regular row or line of things or people

      "conifer plantations growing in serried ranks"

    • each of the eight rows of eight squares running from side to side across a chessboard
  3. the people belonging to or constituting a group or class

    "the ranks of Britain's unemployed"

    • (in the armed forces) those who are not commissioned officers

      "he was fined and reduced to the ranks"

  4. the value or the order of the largest non-zero determinant of a given matrix
    • an analogous quantity in other kinds of group
verb
rank ranked ranking ranks
  1. give (someone or something) a rank or place within a grading system

    "students ranked the samples in order of preference"

    • have a specified rank or place within a grading system

      "he now ranks third in America"

    • take precedence over (someone) in respect of rank; outrank

      "the Secretary of State ranks all the other members of the cabinet"

  2. arrange in a row or rows

    "the tents were ranked in orderly rows"

    line up align draw up put/set in order order place position arrange dispose set out array range