rank

Meanings

Adjective

• Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).
• 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.
• Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
• Gross, disgusting.
• Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
• lustful; lascivious

Adverb

• Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

Noun

• A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
• One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
• 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 category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
• A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
• A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
• The dimensionality of an array or tensor.
• The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
• The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
• The size of any basis of a given matroid.

Verb

• To place abreast, or in a line.
• To have a ranking.
• To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
• To take rank of; to outrank.

Origin

• From Middle English rank, from Old English ranc, from Proto-West Germanic *rank, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-. Cognate with Dutch rank ("slender, slim"), Low German rank ("slender, projecting, lank"), Danish rank ("straight, erect, slender"), Swedish rank ("slender, shaky, wonky"), Icelandic rakkur ("straight, slender, bold, valiant").
• From Middle English rank, from Old French ranc, rang, reng (Modern French rang), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.
• Akin to Old High German hring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring ("ring") (Modern English ring), Old Norse hringr ("ring, circle, queue, sword; ship"). More at ring.