Definition of "rank"
- adjective
Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter.
Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
Gross, disgusting.
Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
- adverb
Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
- noun
In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality.
The level of one's position in a class-based society.
A level in an organization such as the military.
A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix or determinant.
The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor (mathematics).
- verb
To give a person, place, thing, or idea a rank.
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