Definition of "rank" in Anglais

adjective

1. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

2. (dated) Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.

   • Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?

3. (intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.

   • rank treason
   • rank nonsense
   • I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith.

4. (obsolete) lustful; lascivious

adverb

1. (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

noun

1. A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.

   • The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.

2. (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).

3. (card games) The value of a playing card.

   • The ranks are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace.

4. (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.

5. One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.

   • Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.
   • The fancy hotel was of the first rank.

6. The level of one's position in a class-based society.

7. (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.

   • a membership drawn from the ranks of wealthy European businessmen

8. A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.

   • Private First Class (PFC) is the second-lowest rank in the Marines.
   • He rose up through the ranks of the company, from mailroom clerk to CEO.

9. (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.

   • Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.

10. (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.

11. (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.

12. (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).

13. (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.