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rank⋅ing

  [rang-king]
Use ranking in a Sentence
–adjective
1. senior or superior in rank, position, etc.: a ranking diplomat.
2. prominent or highly regarded: a ranking authority on Soviet affairs.
3. occupying a specific rank, position, etc. (often used in combination): a low-ranking executive.
–noun
4. an act or instance of indicating relative standing.
5. a list showing such standing.
Origin:
1860–65; rank 1 + -ing 2 , -ing 1
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rank

1  [rangk]
–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: the rank of captain.
3. high position or station in the social or some similar scale: a woman of rank.
4. a class in any scale of comparison.
5. relative position or standing: a writer of the first rank.
6. a row, line, or series of things or persons: orchestra players arranged in ranks.
7. ranks,
a. the members of an armed service apart from its officers; enlisted personnel.
b. 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, esp. soldiers, standing abreast in close-order formation (distinguished from file ).
11. British. a place or station occupied by vehicles available for hire; stand: a taxi rank.
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.
–verb (used with object)
16. to arrange in ranks or in regular formation: The men were ranked according to height. He ranked the chess pieces on the board.
17. to assign to a particular position, station, class, etc.: She was ranked among the most admired citizens.
18. to outrank: The colonel ranks all other officers in the squadron.
19. Slang. to insult; criticize.
–verb (used without object)
20. to form a rank or ranks.
21. to take up or occupy a place in a particular rank, class, etc.: to rank well ahead of the other students.
22. to have rank or standing.
23. to be the senior in rank: The colonel ranks at this camp.
24. Slang. to complain.
—Idioms
25. break ranks,
a. to leave an assigned position in a military formation.
b. to disagree with, defect from, or refuse to support one's colleagues, party, or the like.
26. pull rank (on), to make use of one's superior rank to gain an advantage over (someone). Also, pull one's rank (on).
Origin:
1560–70; < F ranc (n., obs.), OF renc, ranc, rang row, line < Gmc, akin to ring 1

Related forms:
rankless, adjective

Synonyms:
3. distinction, eminence, dignity. 6. range, tier. 9. alignment. 16. align, range, array.
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rank 1   (rāngk)   
n.  

    1. A relative position in a society.

    2. An official position or grade: the rank of sergeant.

    3. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.

    4. High or eminent station or position: persons of rank.

    5. A line of soldiers, vehicles, or equipment standing side by side in close order.

    6. ranks The armed forces.

    7. ranks Personnel, especially enlisted military personnel.

  2. A row, line, series, or range.

    1. A line of soldiers, vehicles, or equipment standing side by side in close order.

    2. ranks The armed forces.

    3. ranks Personnel, especially enlisted military personnel.

  4. ranks A body of people classed together; numbers: joined the ranks of the unemployed.

  5. Games Any of the rows of squares running crosswise to the files on a playing board in chess or checkers.

v.   ranked, rank·ing, ranks

v.   tr.

  1. To place in a row or rows.

  2. To give a particular order or position to; classify.

  3. To outrank or take precedence over.

v.   intr.

  1. To hold a particular rank: ranked first in the class.

  2. To form or stand in a row or rows.

  3. Slang

    1. To complain.

    2. To engage in carping criticism. Often used with on: Stop ranking on me all the time.


[Middle English, line, row, from Old French ranc, renc, of Germanic origin; see sker-2 in Indo-European roots.]
rank·ing   (rāng'kĭng)   
adj.  Of the highest rank; preeminent.
n.  

  1. rankings A listing of items in a group, such as schools or sports teams, according to a system of rating or a record of performance.

  2. A position in such a list.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
rank (so) (out)

  1. tv.
    to annoy or chastise someone. (See also rank.) : He really ranks me out. What a pest!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

rank  (n.)
early 14c., from O.Fr. ranc, from Frankish *hring (cf. O.H.G. hring "circle, ring"), from P.Gmc. *khrengaz "circle, ring" (see ring). Meaning "social position" is from c.1430; the verb sense of "put in order, classify" is from 1592. Rank and file is 1598, in reference to soldiers marching in formation, generalized to "common soldiers" (1796) and "common people" (1860). The verb meaning "to arrange things in order" is from 1590.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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