Rank
Rank refers to the relative position, value, worth, complexity, power, importance, authority, level etc. of a person or object, including:
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... Carabiniers and Guardia di Finanza, the ranks of vice-brigadier (vice brigadiere), brigadier (brigadiere), and chief brigadier (brigadiere capo) correspond roughly to the army ranks based on sergeant ... The rank of brigade general (generale di brigata) is used throughout the armed forces as the most junior general rank, and corresponds to the British rank title of ...
... Brigadier ( /brɪɡəˈdɪər/) is a senior military rank, the meaning of which is somewhat different in different military services ... The brigadier rank is generally superior to the rank of colonel, and subordinate to major general ... Many countries use the rank brigadier general rather than brigadier, and prior to the 1920s, so did members of the Commonwealth ...
... RANK, Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor κ B, a type I membrane protein The Rank Group plc, European gaming and leisure business Rank Organisation, a British entertainment ...
... Military ranks are a system of hierarchical relationships in armed forces, police, intelligence agencies or other institutions organized along military lines ... Usually, uniforms denote the bearer's rank by particular insignia affixed to the uniforms ... military operations became larger and more complex, military ranks increased and ranking systems themselves became more complex ...
... In the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, the rank of brigadier general was always temporary and held only while the officer was posted to a particular task, typically the command of a ... When posted elsewhere, the rank would be relinquished and the former rank resumed ... Brigadier general was also used as an honorary rank on retirement ...
More definitions of "rank":
- (noun): Relative status.
Example: "His salary was determined by his rank and seniority"
- (verb): Assign a rank or rating to.
Example: "How would you rank these students?"
Synonyms: rate, range, order, grade, place
- (adj): Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers.
Example: "A rank outsider"
Synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, right-down, sheer
- (noun): The body of members of an organization or group.
Synonyms: membership
- (noun): The ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army).
Example: "The strike was supported by the union rank and file"
Synonyms: rank and file
- (verb): Take precedence or surpass others in rank.
Synonyms: outrank
- (noun): Position in a social hierarchy.
Synonyms: social station, social status, social rank
- (verb): Take or have a position relative to others.
Example: "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World"
- (adj): Very offensive in smell or taste.
Example: "A rank cigar"
- (adj): Very fertile; producing profuse growth.
Example: "Rank earth"
- (adj): Growing profusely.
Example: "Rank jungle vegetation"
- (noun): A row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another.
Example: "The entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen"
Famous quotes containing the word rank:
“Its whether will ye be a rank robber’s wife,
Or will ye die by my wee pen knife?
Its I’ll not be a rank robber’s wife,
But I’ll rather die by your wee pen knife.
He ‘s killed this may and he ‘s laid her by,
For to bear the red rose company.”
—Unknown. Babylon; or, The Bonnie Banks o’ Fordie (l. 9–14)
“A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The rank is but the guinea stamp—
The man’s the gowd for a’ that!”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)