How to pronounce “rank”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
• (dated) Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
• (intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.
• (obsolete) lustful; lascivious
• [Adverb]
• (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
• [Noun]
• A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
• (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
• (card games) The value of a playing card.
• (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
• One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
• The level of one's position in a class-based society.
• (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
• A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
• (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
• (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
• (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
• (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
• (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To place abreast or in a line.
• (intransitive) To have a ranking.
• (transitive) To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
• (transitive, US) To take the rank of; to outrank.

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