rank

adj

/ˈɹæŋk//ˈɹeɪ̯ŋk/CA

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”).

derived from *h₃reǵ-✻ — “straight, direct”
inherited from *rankaz✻ — “straight”
inherited from *rank✻
inherited from ranc — “proud, haughty, arrogant, insolent, forward, overbearing, showy, ostentatious, splendid, bold, valiant, noble, brave, strong, full-grown, mature”
inherited from rank — “strong, proud”

Definitions

1
Strong
Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
- rank grass
- rank weeds
- And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
2
Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
- Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?
- Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they ordinarily feed.
3
complete, unmitigated, utter.
- rank treason
- rank nonsense
- I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith.
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1. 4
  lustful
  lustful; lascivious
  - the ewes being rank, In end of autumn turned to the rams
2. 5
  Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
  - The seely man seeing him ryde so rancke, / And ayme at him, fell flat to ground for feare […].
  - That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell.
3. 6
  A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
  - 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[…].
4. One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a…
  One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
5. 8
  The value of a playing card.
  - The ranks are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace.
6. In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to…
  In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
7. 10
  One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location,…
  One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
  - Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.
  - The fancy hotel was of the first rank.
8. The level of one's position in a class-based society.
9. 12
  A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
  - a membership drawn from the ranks of wealthy European businessmen
10. 13
  A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
  - 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.
11. 14
  A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
  - Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.
12. The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
13. The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
14. The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral…
  The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
15. The size of any basis of a given matroid.
16. To place abreast or in a line.
17. 20
  To have a ranking.
  - Their defense ranked third in the league.
  - I vex my heart with fancies dim: / ⁠He still outstript me in the race; / ⁠It was but unity of place / That made me dream I rank’d with him.
18. 21
  To assign a suitable place in a class or order
  To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
  - Ranking all things under general and special heads.
  - Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.
  - Heresy [is] ranked with idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, murders, and other sins of the flesh.
19. To take the rank of
  To take the rank of; to outrank.
20. A surname.

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Derived

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 · +25 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rank. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at rank. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at rank

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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