rank
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[ræŋk]
n
a position, esp an official one, within a social organization, esp the armed forces
the rank of captain
high social or other standing; status
a line or row of people or things
the position of an item in any ordering or sequence
a place where taxis wait to be hired
a line of soldiers drawn up abreast of each otherSee file
any of the eight horizontal rows of squares on a chessboard
(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
a set of organ pipes controlled by the same stop
(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
vb
to arrange (people or things) in rows or lines; range
to accord or be accorded a specific position in an organization, society, or group
to array (a set of objects) as a sequence, esp in terms of the natural arithmetic ordering of some measure of the elements
to rank students by their test scores
to be important; rate
money ranks low in her order of priorities
to take precedence or surpass in rank
the colonel ranks at this camp
rank
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[ræŋk]
adj
showing vigorous and profuse growth
rank weeds
highly offensive or disagreeable, esp in smell or taste
complete or absolute; utter
a rank outsider
coarse or vulgar; gross
his language was rank
- 习惯用语
- break ranks to fall out of line, esp when under attack
- close ranks to maintain discipline or solidarity, esp in anticipation of attack
- pull rank to get one's own way by virtue of one's superior position or rank
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