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18 Definitions of: rank

1. noun, a position, esp an official one, within a social organization, esp the armed forces
2. noun, high social or other standing; status
3. noun, a line or row of people or things
4. noun, the position of an item in any ordering or sequence
5. noun, a place where taxis wait to be hired
6. noun, a line of soldiers drawn up abreast of each other. Compare file
7. noun, any of the eight horizontal rows of squares on a chessboard
8. noun, (in systemic grammar) one of the units of description of which a grammar is composed. Ranks of English grammar are sentence, clause, group, word, and morpheme
9. noun, music a set of organ pipes controlled by the same stop
10. noun, maths (of a matrix) the largest number of linearly independent rows or columns; the number of rows (or columns) of the nonzero determinant of greatest order that can be extracted from the matrix
11. noun, break ranks military to fall out of line, esp when under attack
12. noun, close ranks to maintain discipline or solidarity, esp in anticipation of attack
13. noun, pull rank to get one's own way by virtue of one's superior position or rank
14. verb, to arrange (people or things) in rows or lines; range
15. verb, to accord or be accorded a specific position in an organization, society, or group
16. verb, to array (a set of objects) as a sequence, esp in terms of the natural arithmetic ordering of some measure of the elements
17. verb, to be important; rate
18. verb, to take precedence or surpass in rank
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1. adjective, showing vigorous and profuse growth
2. adjective, highly offensive or disagreeable, esp in smell or taste
3. adjective, complete or absolute; utter
4. adjective, coarse or vulgar; gross
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Synonyms:	flagrant, file, status, level, position, grade, order, standing, sort, quality	And more...

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