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rank
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Meanings
noun
  • a position in the hierarchy of the armed forces.
    E.g. an army officer of high rank
  • a single line of soldiers or police officers drawn up abreast.
    E.g. they were drawn up outside their barracks in long ranks
  • the people belonging to or constituting a group or class.
    E.g. the ranks of Britain's unemployed
  • the value or the order of the largest non-zero determinant of a given matrix.
verb
  • give (someone or something) a rank or place within a grading system.
    E.g. students ranked the samples in order of preference
  • arrange in a row or rows.
    E.g. the tents were ranked in orderly rows
adjective
  • (of vegetation) growing too thickly and coarsely.
    E.g. clumps of rank grass
  • having a foul or offensive smell.
    E.g. breathing rank air
  • (especially of something bad or deficient) complete and utter (used for emphasis).
    E.g. rank stupidity

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