The word rank often deals with an order of some kind. If you are a high ranking officer in the military, you can boss around soldiers of lower rank.
Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height;
Noun
the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army); "the strike was supported by the union rank and file"; "he rose from the ranks to become a colonel"
Noun
the body of members of an organization or group; "they polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed"
Noun
a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another; "the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen"
Noun
position in a social hierarchy; "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are"
Noun
relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"
Verb
assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
Verb
take or have a position relative to others; "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World"
Verb
take precedence or surpass others in rank
Adjective S.
growing profusely; "rank jungle vegetation"
Adjective S.
conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
Adjective S.
very fertile; producing profuse growth; "rank earth"
Adjective S.
very offensive in smell or taste; "a rank cigar"
superl.
Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant;
grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
superl.
Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter;
as, rank heresy.
superl.
Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very
rich and fertile; as, rank land.
superl.
Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell;
rank-smelling rue.
superl.
Strong to the taste.
superl.
Inflamed with venereal appetite.
adv.
Rankly; stoutly; violently.
n. & v.
A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of
osiers.
n. & v.
A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to
file. See 1st File, 1 (a).
n. & v.
Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or
nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.
n. & v.
An aggregate of individuals classed together; a
permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of
men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent
beings.
n. & v.
Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in
civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first
rank; a lawyer of high rank.
n. & v.
Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social
position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.
v. t.
To place abreast, or in a line.
v. t.
To range in a particular class, order, or division; to
class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or
order; to classify.
v. t.
To take rank of; to outrank.
v. i.
To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular
degree, class, order, or division.
v. i.
To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the
orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or
consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks
high in public estimation.
Rank
And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.2.
Rank
That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell.
Rank
Many a mountain nigh Rising in lofty ranks, and loftier still.2.
Fierce, fiery warriors fought upon the clouds, In ranks and squadrons and right form of war.3.
These all are virtues of a meaner rank.6.
Rank
Ranking all things under general and special heads.
Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.
Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft.3.
Rank
Let that one article rank with the rest.2.
Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height;
Rankly; stoutly; violently.
A row or line; a range; an order; a tier;
To place abreast, or in a line.
To be ranged; to be set or disposed, an in a particular degree, class, order, or division.
Usage Examples
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
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Other Usage ExamplesAmong my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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