rank

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A relative position in a society.
2. n. An official position or grade: the rank of sergeant.
3. n. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
4. n. High or eminent station or position: persons of rank.
5. n. A row, line, series, or range.
6. n. A line of soldiers, vehicles, or equipment standing side by side in close order.
7. n. The armed forces.
8. n. Personnel, especially enlisted military personnel.
9. n. A body of people classed together; numbers: joined the ranks of the unemployed.
10. n. Games Any of the rows of squares running crosswise to the files on a playing board in chess or checkers.
11. v. To place in a row or rows.
12. v. To give a particular order or position to; classify.
13. v. To outrank or take precedence over.
14. v. To hold a particular rank: ranked first in the class.
15. v. To form or stand in a row or rows.
16. v. Slang To complain.
17. v. Slang To engage in carping criticism. Often used with on: Stop ranking on me all the time.
18. idiom. pull rank To use one's superior rank to gain an advantage.
19. adj. Growing profusely or with excessive vigor: rank vegetation in the jungle.
20. adj. Yielding a profuse, often excessive crop; highly fertile: rank earth.
21. adj. Strong and offensive in odor or flavor.
22. adj. Conspicuously offensive: rank treachery. See Synonyms at flagrant.
23. adj. Absolute; complete: a rank amateur; a rank stranger.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Strong; powerful; capable of acting or of being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
2. Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter: as, rank poison; rank treason; rank nonsense.
3. Strong in growth; growing with vigor or rapidity; hence, coarse or gross: said of plants.
4. Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy, plethoric.
5. Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
6. Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome; rancid: as, a rank taste or odor.
7. Hence Coarse or gross morally; offensive to the mind; obscene; indecent; foul.
8. Ruttish; in heat.
9. In law, excessive; exceeding the actual value: as, a rank modus.
10. In mech., cutting strongly or deeply, as the iron of a plane set so as to project more than usual.
11. Eager; anxious; impatient: as, he was rank to do it.
12. Very angry; in a passion.
13. Rankly; strongly; furiously.
14. To become rank.
15. n. A line, row, or range.
16. n. Specifically— One of the rows of a body of troops, or of any persons similarly ranged in a right-and-left line; a line of soldiers or other persons standing abreast in a formation: distinguished from file, 5. See rank and file, under file.
17. n. Hence— plural The lines or divisions of an army or any armed force; organized soldiery; the body or class of common soldiers; as, the ranks are full; to rise from the ranks; to reduce an officer to the ranks.
18. n. In organ-building, a row or set of pipes, one for each digital of the keyboard. A mixture-stop is said to be of two, three, four, or five ranks, according to the numbers of pipes sounded at once by a single digital.
19. n. One of the lines of squares on a chess-board running from side to side, in distinction from the files, which run from player to player.
20. n. A row, as of leaves on a stem.
21. n. A continuous line or course; a stretch.
22. n. A class, order, or grade of persons; any aggregate of individuals classed together for some common reason, as social station, occupation, character, or creed: as, the Prohibition ranks; the ranks of the Anarchists.
23. n. Grade in a scale of comparison; class or classification: natural or acquired status; relative position; standing.
24. n. Specifically, of persons— Titular distinction or dignity; gradation by hereditary, official, or other title: as, civil, judicial, or military rank; the rank of baron or marquis; the rank of general or admiral; the rank of ambassador or governor. The relative rank of officers of the United States army and navy is as follows: General ranks with admiral; lieutenant-general with vice-admiral; major-general with rear-admiral; brigadier-general with commodore; colonel with captain; lieutenant-colonel with commander; major with lieutenant-commander; captain with lieutenant(senior grade); first lieutenant with lieutenant (junior grade); second lieutenant with ensign.
25. n. Eminent standing or dignity; especially, aristocratic station or hereditary distinction, as in European monarchies; inherited or conferred social eminence.
26. n. A ranging or roving; hence, discursive wandering; divagation; aberration.
27. n. In geometry, the degree of a locus of lines. The number of lines of a singly infinite system which cut any given line in tridimensional space.
28. To arrange in a rank or ranks; place in a rank or line.
29. To assign to a particular class, order, or division; fix the rank of; class.
30. To take rank of or over; outrank; as, in the United States army, an officer commissioned simply as general ranks all other generals.
31. To dispose in suitable order; arrange; classify.
32. To fix as to state or estimation; settle; establish.
33. To range; give the range to, as a gun in firing.
34. To move in ranks or rows.
35. Your cattle, too; Allah made them; serviceable dumb creatures; … they come ranking home at evening time.
36. To be ranged or disposed, as in a particular order, class, or division; hold rank or station; occupy a certain position as compared with others: as, to rank above, below, or with some other man.
37. To range; go or move about; hence, to bear one's self; behave.
38. In British law: To have rank or standing as a claim in bankruptcy or probate proceedings.
39. To put in a claim against the property of a bankrupt person or a deceased debtor: as, he ranked upon the estate.
40. Unmanageable: said of a racehorse on the track.
41. n. Specifically, rank in the United States army according to date of last commission.
42. In logging, to haul and pile regularly: as, to rank bark or cord-wood.
43. n. A name proposed by Perry for the thermodynamic quantity, .

Wiktionary

1. adj. Having a very strong and bad odor.
2. adj. Gross, disgusting.
3. adj. Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
4. adv. Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
5. n. position of a person, place, thing, or idea in relation to others based on a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality
6. n. a level in an organization such as the military
7. n. a level in a scientific taxonomy system
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9. n. One of the horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard
10. n. maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
11. n. In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
12. n. The dimensionality of an array.
13. v. to give a person, place, thing, or idea a rank

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height
2. adj. Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter.
3. adj. Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile.
4. adj. Strong-scented; rancid; musty.
5. adj. Strong to the taste.
6. adj. Inflamed with venereal appetite.
7. adv. Rankly; stoutly; violently.
8. n. A row or line; a range; an order; a tier.
9. n. A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).
10. n. Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility
11. n. An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division
12. n. Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade.
13. n. Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence.
14. v. To place abreast, or in a line.
15. v. To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.
16. v. To take rank of; to outrank.
17. v. To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.
18. v. 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

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the body of members of an organization or group
2. n. relative status
3. v. assign a rank or rating to
4. n. the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
5. adj. very fertile; producing profuse growth
6. v. take or have a position relative to others
7. n. position in a social hierarchy
8. adj. complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
9. adj. growing profusely
10. v. take precedence or surpass others in rank
11. n. a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
12. adj. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
13. adj. very offensive in smell or taste