Rank refers to the relative position, value, worth, complexity, power, importance, authority, level etc. of a person or object, including:
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- Rank (chess), a row of the chessboard
- Rank of pipes in a pipe organ
- Taxicab stand or taxi rank, a designated area for taxi-cabs to queue up whilst waiting for passengers
- Rank (formation) Military term for a line of soldiers
- Rank of a playing card, typically one of { ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, jack, queen, king }
- A level within a ranking
- A level within a taxonomic hierarchy
- Taxonomic rank in biology (species, genus, family, etc.)
Read more about Rank: An Achieved Level of Performance or Credential, Position Within A Command Hierarchy Requiring Obedience, Mathematics, People Named Rank, Places, Others
Famous quotes containing the word rank:
“Your rank is way down below his when you seek to establish the exceptions and he seeks to establish the rule.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers, whilst they were exploring their granted and natural rights and determining the power of the magistrate, were united by personal affection. Members of a church before whose searching covenant all rank was abolished, they stood in awe of each other, as religious men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)