1. A relative position in a society.
2. an official position or grade: the rank of sergeant.
3. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
4. high or eminent station or position: persons of rank.
5. A row, line, series, or range.
6. A line of soldiers, vehicles, or equipment standing side by side in close order.
7. the armed forces.
8. personnel, especially enlisted military personnel.
9. A body of people classed together; numbers: joined the ranks of the unemployed.
10. games any of the rows of squares running crosswise to the files on a playing board in chess or checkers.
11. to place in a row or rows.
12. to give a particular order or position to; classify.
13. to outrank or take precedence over.
14. to hold a particular rank: ranked first in the class.
15. to form or stand in a row or rows.
16. slang to complain.
17. slang to engage in carping criticism. often used with on: stop ranking on me all the time.
18. pull rank to use one's superior rank to gain an advantage.
19. growing profusely or with excessive vigor: rank vegetation in the jungle.
20. yielding a profuse, often excessive crop; highly fertile: rank earth.
21. strong and offensive in odor or flavor.
22. conspicuously offensive: rank treachery. see synonyms at flagrant.
23. absolute; complete: a rank amateur; a rank stranger.

1. strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
2. strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter.
3. strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
4. suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
5. causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
6. strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
7. having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
8. gross, disgusting.
9. complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
10. quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
11. in a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
12. one's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality
13. the level of one's position in a class-based society
14. a level in an organization such as the military
15. a level in a scientific taxonomy system
16. maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix or determinant.
17. the dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor (mathematics).
18. to give a person, place, thing, or idea a rank

1. luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height
2. raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter.
3. causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile.
4. strong-scented; rancid; musty
5. strong to the taste.
6. inflamed with venereal appetite.
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8. rankly; stoutly; violently.
9. A row or line; a range; an order; a tier.
10. A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. see 1st file, 1 (a).
11. grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility
12. an aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division
13. degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade
14. elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence.
15. to be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.
16. 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
17. to place abreast, or in a line.
18. to range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.
19. to take rank of; to outrank.

1. strong; powerful; capable of acting or of being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
2. strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter: as, rank poison; rank treason; rank nonsense.
3. strong in growth; growing with vigor or rapidity; hence, coarse or gross: said of plants.
4. suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy, plethoric.
5. causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
6. strong to the senses; offensive; noisome; rancid: as, a rank taste or odor.
7. hence coarse or gross morally; offensive to the mind; obscene; indecent; foul.
8. Ruttish; in heat.
9. in law, excessive; exceeding the actual value: as, a rank modus.
10. in mech., cutting strongly or deeply, as the iron of a plane set so as to project more than usual.
11. eager; anxious; impatient: as, he was rank to do it.
12. very angry; in a passion.
13. rankly; strongly; furiously.
14. to become rank.
15. to arrange in a rank or ranks; place in a rank or line.
16. to assign to a particular class, order, or division; fix the rank of; class.
17. to take rank of or over; outrank; as, in the united states army, an officer commissioned simply as general ranks all other generals.
18. to dispose in suitable order; arrange; classify.
19. to fix as to state or estimation; settle; establish.
20. to range; give the range to, as a gun in firing.
21. to move in ranks or rows.
22. your cattle, too; allah made them; serviceable dumb creatures; … they come ranking home at evening time.
23. to be ranged or disposed, as in a particular order, class, or division; hold rank or station; occupy a certain position as compared with others: as, to rank above, below, or with some other man.
24. to range; go or move about; hence, to bear one's self; behave.
25. in british law: to have rank or standing as a claim in bankruptcy or probate proceedings.
26. to put in a claim against the property of a bankrupt person or a deceased debtor: as, he ranked upon the estate.
27. unmanageable: said of a racehorse on the track.
28. in logging, to haul and pile regularly: as, to rank bark or cord-wood.
29. A line, row, or range.
30. specifically— one of the rows of a body of troops, or of any persons similarly ranged in a right-and-left line; a line of soldiers or other persons standing abreast in a formation: distinguished from file, 5. see rank and file, under file.
31. hence— plural the lines or divisions of an army or any armed force; organized soldiery; the body or class of common soldiers; as, the ranks are full; to rise from the ranks; to reduce an officer to the ranks.
32. in organ-building, a row or set of pipes, one for each digital of the keyboard. A mixture-stop is said to be of two, three, four, or five ranks, according to the numbers of pipes sounded at once by a single digital.
33. one of the lines of squares on a chess-board running from side to side, in distinction from the files, which run from player to player.
34. A row, as of leaves on a stem.
35. A continuous line or course; a stretch.
36. A class, order, or grade of persons; any aggregate of individuals classed together for some common reason, as social station, occupation, character, or creed: as, the prohibition ranks; the ranks of the anarchists.
37. grade in a scale of comparison; class or classification: natural or acquired status; relative position; standing.
38. specifically, of persons— titular distinction or dignity; gradation by hereditary, official, or other title: as, civil, judicial, or military rank; the rank of baron or marquis; the rank of general or admiral; the rank of ambassador or governor. the relative rank of officers of the united states army and navy is as follows: general ranks with admiral; lieutenant-general with vice-admiral; major-general with rear-admiral; brigadier-general with commodore; colonel with captain; lieutenant-colonel with commander; major with lieutenant-commander; captain with lieutenant(senior grade); first lieutenant with lieutenant (junior grade); second lieutenant with ensign.
39. eminent standing or dignity; especially, aristocratic station or hereditary distinction, as in european monarchies; inherited or conferred social eminence.
40. A ranging or roving; hence, discursive wandering; divagation; aberration.
41. in geometry, the degree of a locus of lines.
42. specifically, rank in the united states army according to date of last commission.
43. A name proposed by perry for the thermodynamic quantity, .

1. the body of members of an organization or group
2. relative status
3. assign a rank or rating to
4. the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
5. very fertile; producing profuse growth
6. take or have a position relative to others
7. position in a social hierarchy
8. complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
9. growing profusely
10. take precedence or surpass others in rank
11. a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
12. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
13. very offensive in smell or taste