English Explanatory Dictionary

rank

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
  2. Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
  3. Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
  4. Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
  5. Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
  6. Gross, disgusting, foul.
  7. Headstrong; difficult to control.
  8. Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
  9. complete, unmitigated, utter.
  10. lustful; lascivious
adv
  1. Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
noun
  1. A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
  2. One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
  3. The value of a playing card.
  4. In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
  5. One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
  6. The level of one's position in a class-based society.
  7. A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
  8. A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
  9. A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
  10. The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
  11. The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
  12. The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
verb
  1. To place abreast or in a line.
  2. To have a ranking.
  3. To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
  4. To take the rank of; to outrank.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈɹæŋk/ [ˈɹʷæŋk] /ˈɹeɪ̯ŋk/ [ˈɹʷeɪ̯ŋk] /ˈɹɛ̃ŋk/ [ˈɹʷɛ̃ŋk] en-us-rank.ogg

Word forms

rank ranker more rank rankest most rank ranck ranks ranking ranked

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 rank (“slender, projecting, lank”), Danish rank (“straight, erect, slender”), Swedish rank (“slender, shaky, wonky”), Icelandic rakkur (“straight, slender, bold, valiant”).

Synonyms

stinky smelly pongy thorough virulent condition

Antonyms

file

Derived words

outrank overrank ranken rankful rankish rankly rankness back rank back-rank mate break rank cab off the rank cab rank cab-rank rule circuit rank close ranks coal rank corank de-rank flag rank full rank keep rank Kendall rank correlation coefficient low-rank military rank multirank ordinal rank other rank pull rank rank-and-file rank and file rank-and-filer rank and yank rank badge rank-deficient rankism rankist rankit rankless rank-nullity theorem rank of apparition rankogram rank outsider rankshift ranksman rank sum rankwise Spearman's rank correlation coefficient S rank stack rank subrank superrank taxi rank forerank derank disrank downrank enrank misrank rankability rankable

Translations

Czech: bujný Czech: bujně rostoucí Esperanto: trokreskinta Literally Esperanto: “overgrown” German: geil Hungarian: burjánzó Hungarian: buja Hungarian: dús Hungarian: sűrű Irish: uaibhreach Ottoman Turkish: كور
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