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rank

A rank is the position of a person, place, thing, or idea in relation to others based on a shared property such as location, population, or quality. Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23. A rank is a level in an organization such as the military. Private First Class (PFC) is the lowest rank in the Marines.

rank

To rank is to give a rank to a person, place, thing or idea. Please rank the following fruits from your favourite to your least favourite: pear, apple, watermelon, apple, orange.

rank

Something that is rank has a very strong, bad smell. Something that is rank is gross or disgusting.

rank

a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen relative status his salary was determined by his rank and seniority (= rank and file) 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 take or have a position relative to others This painting ranks among the best in the Western World (= social status) position in a social hierarchy the British are more aware of social status than Americans are very fertile; producing profuse growth rank earth (= rate) assign a rank or rating to how would you rank these students? The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide (= membership) 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 very offensive in smell or taste a rank cigar growing profusely rank jungle vegetation take precedence or surpass others in rank (= absolute, downright, out-and-out, right-down, sheer) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers absolute freedom an absolute dimwit a downright lie out-and-out mayhem an out-and-out lie a rank outsider many right-down vices got the job through sheer persistence sheer stupidity (= crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross) 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

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Simple sentences

Men of the rank of captain and below live in this building.
The field was rank with weeds.
The higher he rose in social rank, the more modest he became.
He was advanced to the rank of general.
He was raised to the rank of colonel two years ago.
He holds the rank of colonel.
Apes rank above dogs in intelligence.
I heard that a gay priest had been promoted to the rank of bishop, but it turned out to be a fabrication.
God surveyed the people, and there was no fragrance of virtue arising from them, but the rank odour of punishments.
He reached the rank of general.
His rank isn't high enough for that position.
Rank boys according to their height.
He rose to the rank of sergeant.
He is beneath her in rank.
Far better it is 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 the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Tom has the rank of captain.
The soldiers fell into rank.
Tom's father rose to the rank of colonel and was transferred to the capital.
He was promoted in rank.

Movie subtitles

We offer you the highest rank of the army of the south.
I wish for that Soldier to be raised in rank immediately!
You see my rank? - Sure.
Many of you here tonight knew me. as an SA man. marching in the rank and file. in the first years of the Movement.
And to assist me in this, I'm replacing Mr Fryer with Mr Christian who will now act as executive second in command with the rank of Acting Second Lieutenant.
In the name of the French people, we deprive you of your rank.
But it's lost you your rank, your lands.
There's nothing he wouldn't do for a king who'd restore him to rank.
With the manor and estate of Robin of Locksley to support his rank.
Remember that I am the only man under the rank of marquis have fought for ten years to extract land hands of moneylenders and I will not be like them.
Never in my life, sir, have I witnessed such behavior in a person of the rank.
You're a rank sentimentalist.
This is rank mutiny.
Her fallow leas, the darnel, hemlock and rank fumitory, doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts that should deracinate such savagery.
Beautiful as the daylight, but not of equal rank with me.
This is a rank imitation.
It's obvious that it's a rank imitation.
With the rank of captain.
Your passport says nothing about your military rank.
What is your rank, Orloff?
He's a rank amateur.
Well, nevertheless, this, uh, rank amateur has kept you crime experts guessing for over a month.
Cited several times during the campaign, given the rank of captain, he went missing Dec. 16, 1917, in the Somme.
Remember how the fever mist smells in the bottoms, rank and rotten?
I'm the only man under the rank of marquis who ever gambled ten years at White's Club and kept his estate out of the hands of the moneylenders.
Traffic between levels is limited according to rank.
You see my rank?
I proposed you for the rank of sergeant.
Burdkin. A rank radical.
He held high rank in Washington's army. And proved his patriotism by selling military information to the British.
You're a rank sentimentalist. - Yeah?
Sergeant, will you explain to Private Winters that as a Navy nurse, I hold rank equivalent to a lieutenant and should be addressed in the same manner as a commissioned officer.
Hall, step in the front rank.
Take your place in rank.

News and current affairs

Likewise, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands rank, respectively, fifth and sixth on the Innovation Index, but only 28th and 29th on the Peace Index.
They are expected to rank second by 2020, behind only heart disease.
But, just as stunningly, rank-and-file members of the US House of Representatives have rejected it - at least for now.
If history seems likely to rank Silvio Berlusconi as an inconsequential Prime Minister of Italy, it will surely remember him as an extraordinary - and extraordinarily bizarre - one.
In an era of evaporated pensions and benefits for the rank and file, piggish pay packets for CEO's have led a cynical public to wonder where big business has gone wrong.
Remuneration of company bosses now reaches 300 to 500 times the average salary of rank-and-file employees, up from 40 to one for the century and a half before 1980.
To some extent, this is because - all rhetoric notwithstanding - human rights rank relatively low among these governments' priorities.
It is unlikely, but possible, that a hardliner like Ted Cruz, or a rank amateur with deep religious convictions, such as the neurosurgeon Ben Carson, will capture the party.
It appears from press reports that the West finally gave the green light to the Egyptian military to overthrow Morsi, arrest the Muslim Brotherhood's leadership, and repress the Islamist rank and file.
But if you look at the euro zone's economic problems today, the danger of high long-term nominal interest rates does not even rank among investors' top ten concerns.
Purchases of second homes for pleasure were confined to the rich, and thus did not seem quite so much of a conversation topic for the rank-and-file business people that I meet at such conferences.
For example, companies increasingly augment standard wage packages with stock options, even for rank-and-file employees.
The Left's rank and file is faceless, with Communists, former guerrillas, and other radical fellow travelers marching side-by-side with a moderate majority of Social and Christian Democrats.
But while the officer corps may be steadfast defenders of secular rule, the rank and file reflects Pakistani society.
In retrospect, the charge seems like rank hypocrisy.
There are also now several different league tables - which are generating considerable angst - that rank financial centers based largely on surveys of firms.
Respiratory diseases rank second (after cardiovascular diseases) in terms of mortality, incidence, prevalence, and costs.
But even western Germany holds the second-lowest rank of all developed countries.
Transparency International and occasionally the World Bank like to rank countries by their degree of corruption, with the media then ceaselessly citing where each country stands.
There are school and university league tables, rankings of companies on profitability or corporate social responsibility, tables of happiness indicators by country, and tables that attempt to rank consumer brands by value.
Such a tricameral legislature, its proponents believe, would better ensure that political decisions are made by more educated and enlightened representatives, thereby avoiding the rank populism of Western-style elected factions.
Farmers, the single largest occupational group in most castes, with ritual rank ranging from high to low, were highly differentiated in terms of size and economic status.

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