rank
Pronunciation: /ˈɹæŋk/
The English word “rank” has 20 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
- Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
- Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
- Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
- Gross, disgusting, foul.
- Headstrong; difficult to control.
- Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
- complete, unmitigated, utter.
- lustful; lascivious
adverb
noun
- A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
- One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
- The value of a playing card.
- In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
- The level of one's position in a class-based society.
- A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
- A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
- A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
- The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
Etymology
From Middle English rank (“strong, proud”), from Old English ranc (“proud, haughty, arrogant, insolent, forward, overbearing, showy, ostentatious, splendid, bold, valiant, noble, brave, strong, full-grown, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rank, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“straight, direct”). Cognate with Dutch rank (“slender, slim”), Low German…
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