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| 1. adj. (in combination) Having a specified rank. |  |
| 2. adj. Superior in rank. | |
| 3. n. One’s relative placement in a list. | |
| rank | |
| 1. adj. Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things). | |
| rank treason | |
| rank nonsense | |
| 2. adj. Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross. | |
| rank grass | |
| rank weeds | |
| 3. adj. Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric. | |
| 4. adj. Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile. | |
| rank land | |
| 5. adj. Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome. | |
| 6. adj. Having a very strong and bad taste or odor. | |
| Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em? | |
| 7. adj. Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence). | |
| I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith. | |
| 8. adj. (informal) Gross, disgusting. | |
| 9. adj. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong. | |
| 10. adj. (obsolete) Inflamed with venereal appetite. | |
| 11. adv. (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously. | |
| 12. n. 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". | |
| The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads. | |
| 13. n. (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal. | |
| 14. n. One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality | |
| Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23. | |
| The fancy hotel was of the first rank. | |
| 15. n. The level of one's position in a class-based society | |
| 16. n. a hierarchical level in an organization such as the military | |
| Private First Class (PFC) is the lowest rank in the Marines. | |
| He rose up through the ranks of the company from mailroom clerk to CEO. | |
| 17. n. (taxonomy) a level in a scientific taxonomy system | |
| Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class. | |
| 18. n. (linear algebra) Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix. | |
| 19. n. (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor. | |
| 20. n. (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid. | |
| 21. n. (chess) 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. | |
| 22. n. (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation. | |
| 23. v. To place abreast, or in a line. | |
| 24. v. To have a ranking. | |
| Their defense ranked third in the league. | |
| 25. v. To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify. | |
| 26. v. (US) To take rank of; to outrank. | |
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