Definitions for ranks

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ranks rank

Spelling: [rangk]

IPA: /ræŋk/

Ranks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in ranks (aknrs).

Definitions for ranks

noun

1. a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
2. a social or official position or standing, as in the armed forces:
3. high position or station in the social or some similar scale:
4. a class in any scale of comparison.
5. relative position or standing:
6. a row, line, or series of things or persons:
7. ranks. the members of an armed service apart from its officers; enlisted personnel. military enlisted personnel as a group.
8. Usually, ranks. the general body of any party, society, or organization apart from the officers or leaders.
9. orderly arrangement; array.
10. a line of persons, especially soldiers, standing abreast in close-order formation (distinguished from file).
11. British. a place or station occupied by vehicles available for hire; stand:
12. Chess. one of the horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard.
13. a set of organ pipes of the same kind and tonal color.
14. Also called determinant rank. Mathematics. the order of the nonzero determinant of greatest order that can be selected from a given matrix by the elimination of rows and columns.
15. Mining. the classification of coal according to hardness, from lignite to anthracite.
16. Otto [awt-oh] /ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1939, Austrian psychoanalyst.

Idioms

1. break ranks, to leave an assigned position in a military formation. to disagree with, defect from, or refuse to support one's colleagues, party, or the like.
2. pull rank (on), to make use of one's superior rank to gain an advantage over (someone). Also, pull one's rank (on)

adjective

1. growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth:
2. producing an excessive and coarse growth, as land.
3. having an offensively strong smell or taste:
4. offensively strong, as a smell or taste.
5. utter; absolute:
6. highly offensive; disgusting:
7. grossly coarse, vulgar, or indecent:
8. Slang. inferior; contemptible.

verb (used with object)

1. to arrange in ranks or in regular formation:
2. to assign to a particular position, station, class, etc.:
3. to outrank:
4. Slang. to insult; criticize.

verb (used without object)

1. to form a rank or ranks.
2. to take up or occupy a place in a particular rank, class, etc.:
3. to have rank or standing.
4. to be the senior in rank:
5. Slang. to complain.

Origin of ranks

1560-70; French ranc (noun, obsolete), Old French renc, ranc, rang row, line Germanic, akin to ring¹

Examples for ranks

To be sure, there is often a stark dichotomy between so-called opinion leaders and rank and file believers.

Neary had held the rank of lieutenant since 1983 and received multiple commendations during nearly four decades on the job.

She worked with SEAL Team Six and retired with the rank of senior chief.

They sat down and in their assembly they proclaimed his rank.

Only five African-American females hold a rank higher than GS-14 within the Secret Service.

The authorities here have recommended him for promotion to the rank of Major.

I'd like to meet up with the yahoo that wrote that rank yarn!

The Bay Area does not rank among the 20 top global cities in most studies, such as the 2014 A.T. Kearney listings.

In the matter of minor industries, sericulture holds a first rank.

"Faust" is the only play he ever wrote that can rank at all with a dozen of Shakespeare's.