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Rank
raŋk
- 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
- 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
- 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"
- the value or the order of the largest non-zero determinant of a given matrix
- an analogous quantity in other kinds of group
- 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"
- arrange in a row or rows
"the tents were ranked in orderly rows"