rank: Meaning and Definition of

rank

1. to arrange in ranks or in regular formation: The men were ranked according to height. He ranked the chess pieces on the board.
2. to assign to a particular position, station, class, etc.: She was ranked among the most admired citizens.
3. to outrank: The colonel ranks all other officers in the squadron.
4. to insult; criticize.

1. to form a rank or ranks.
2. to take up or occupy a place in a particular rank, class, etc.: to rank well ahead of the other students.
3. to have rank or standing.
4. to be the senior in rank: The colonel ranks at this camp.
5. to complain.

rank

1. growing with excessive luxuriance; vigorous and tall of growth: tall rank weeds.
2. producing an excessive and coarse growth, as land.
3. having an offensively strong smell or taste: a rank cigar.
4. offensively strong, as a smell or taste.
5. utter; absolute: a rank amateur; rank treachery.
6. highly offensive; disgusting: a rank sight of carnage.
7. grossly coarse, vulgar, or indecent: rank language.
8. inferior; contemptible.

Rank

1. 1884–1939, Austrian psychoanalyst.