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(satellite adjective) growing profusely; "rank jungle vegetation" |
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(verb) take or have a position relative to others; "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World" |
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Related Words: be, come, come in, come out, place |
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(satellite adjective) very fertile; producing profuse growth; "rank earth" |
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(satellite adjective) very offensive in smell or taste; "a rank cigar" |
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(verb) take precedence or surpass others in rank |
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Synonyms: outrank |
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Related Words: excel, stand out, surpass |
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(noun) a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another; "the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen" |
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Related Words: line |
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(noun) relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority" |
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Related Words: archidiaconate, baronetcy, barony, billionth, dukedom, earldom, eighteenth, eighth, eightieth, eleventh, fifteenth, fifth, fiftieth, first, fortieth, fourteenth, fourth, gradation, grade, hundredth, kingship, last, level, military rank, military rating, millionth, nineteenth, ninetieth, ninth, number one, paygrade, position, princedom, rating, second, second class, seventeenth, seventh, seventieth, sixteenth, sixth, sixtieth, status, step, tenth, third, thirteenth, thirtieth, thousandth, tier, twelfth, twentieth, viscountcy, viscounty |
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(verb) assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?" |
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Synonyms: grade, order, place, range, rate |
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Related Words: downgrade, judge, prioritize, reorder, seed, sequence, shortlist, subordinate, upgrade |
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(noun) the ordinary members of an organization (such as the soldiers excluding the officers of an army); "the strike was supported by the union rank and file"; "he rose from the ranks to become a colonel" |
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Synonyms: rank and file |
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Related Words: force, personnel |
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(noun) the body of members of an organization or group; "they polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed" |
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Synonyms: membership |
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Related Words: body |
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(satellite adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity" |
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Synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, right-down, sheer |
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(noun) position in a social hierarchy; "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are" |
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Synonyms: social rank, social station, social status |
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Related Words: place, position, quality, station, status |
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(satellite adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" |
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Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross |
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