Meaning of rank | Babel Free

Definitions

1. hierarchy, pecking order
2. A surname.
3. A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
   countable, uncountable
4. The symbol for rank
5. Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong. Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross
6. One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
   countable, uncountable
7. Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross
8. The value of a playing card.
   countable, uncountable
9. Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile
10. In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
    countable, uncountable
11. One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
    countable, uncountable
12. Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric
13. The level of one's position in a class-based society.
    countable, uncountable
14. A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
    countable, uncountable
15. A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
    countable, uncountable
16. A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
    countable, uncountable
17. The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
    countable, uncountable
18. The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
    countable, uncountable
19. The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
    countable, uncountable
20. The size of any basis of a given matroid.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.”

“The Musketeers being on both flancks, firſt firing let the Ranck ſtand, and fire every Ranck, paſſing through before his leader[…]”

“Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs[…].”

“The ranks are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace.”

“Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.”

“The fancy hotel was of the first rank.”

“a membership drawn from the ranks of wealthy European businessmen”

“Earlier this month police in Norfolk were called after five hives thought to contain around 60,000 bees and £600 worth of honey were taken. [...] Suspicions among beekeepers that the culprits come from their own ranks were underlined by the fact that a bee smoker was left at the scene by someone who presumably knew that it could be used to calm the insects before taking them.”

“Private First Class (PFC) is the second-lowest rank in the Marines.”

“He rose up through the ranks of the company, from mailroom clerk to CEO.”

“Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.”

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