rank
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Is rank a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.Examples: "rank grass"; "rank weeds"; "And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good."obsolete
2. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.Examples: "rank land"; "fow Sprat or Fullum Barley, which is the best for rank Land, because it doth not run ſo much to Straw"obsolete
3. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.Examples: "The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple […]"obsolete
4. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.Examples: "Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?"; "Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they ordinarily feed."Synonyms: stinky, smelly, pongyobsolete
5. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.informalobsolete
6. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.Examples: "If Safford happens to be driving a "rank" horse, one that insists on getting away fast, he goes along with the rest, […]"obsolete
adv (English)
1. (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.Examples: "The seely man seeing him ryde so rancke, / And ayme at him, fell flat to ground for feare […]."; "That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).Antonyms: filecountableuncountable
2. (card games) The value of a playing card.Examples: "The ranks are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace."countableuncountable
3. (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.countableuncountable
4. (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.Examples: "a membership drawn from the ranks of wealthy European businessmen"; "Earlier this month police in Norfolk were called after five hives thought to contain around 60,000 bees and £600 worth of honey were taken. [...] Suspicions among beekeepers that the culprits come from their own ranks were underlined by the fact that a bee smoker was left at the scene by someone who presumably knew that it could be used to calm the insects before taking them."countableuncountable
5. (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.Examples: "Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class."countableuncountable
6. (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To place abreast or in a line.Examples: "She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, / Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. / […] / His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes / Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnovves vvhere he feeds / His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants."transitive
2. (intransitive) To have a ranking.Examples: "Their defense ranked third in the league."; "I vex my heart with fancies dim: / He still outstript me in the race; / It was but unity of place / That made me dream I rank’d with him."intransitive
3. (transitive) To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.Examples: "Ranking all things under general and special heads."; "Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers."; "Heresy [is] ranked with idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, murders, and other sins of the flesh."transitive
4. (transitive, US) To take the rank of; to outrank.UStransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary