Meaning of rank in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

adjective

• Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).

  Example: rank nonsense

• Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.

  Example: rank grass

• Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.

• Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.

  Example: rank land

• Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.

• Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.

  Example: Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?

• Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).

  Example: I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith.

• Gross, disgusting.

• Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

• Inflamed with venereal appetite; ruttish.

adverb

• Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

noun

• A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the perpendicular columns in such a pattern is "file"].

  Example: The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.

• 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, or quality

  Example: Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.

• The level of one's position in a class-based society

• A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military

  Example: He rose up through the ranks of the company, from mailroom clerk to CEO.

• A level in a scientific taxonomy system

  Example: Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.

• Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.

• The dimensionality of an array or tensor.

• The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).

• The size of any basis of a given matroid.

• One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number). The analog vertical lines are the files.

• (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation.

verb

• To place abreast, or in a line.

• To have a ranking.

  Example: Their defense ranked third in the league.

• To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.

• To take rank of; to outrank.