<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.</li><li>a social or official position or standing, as in the armed forces: the rank of captain.</li><li>high position or station in the social or some similar scale: a woman of rank.</li><li>Synonyms: dignity, eminence, distinction.</li><li>a class in any scale of comparison.</li><li>relative position or standing: a writer of the first rank.</li><li>a row, line, or series of things or persons: orchestra players arranged in ranks.</li><li>Synonyms: tier, range.</li><li>ranks, the members of an armed service apart from its officers; enlisted personnel.</li><li>military enlisted personnel as a group.</li><li>Usually ranks.</li><li>the general body of any party, society, or organization apart from the officers or leaders.</li><li>orderly arrangement; array.</li><li>Synonyms: series, disposition.</li><li>a line of persons, especially soldiers, standing abreast in close-order formation (file).</li><li>British: a place or station occupied by vehicles available for hire; stand: a taxi rank.</li><li>Chess, Checkers: one of the horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard or checkerboard.</li><li>a set of organ pipes of the same kind and tonal color.</li><li>Also called determinant rank.</li><li>Mathematics: the order of the nonzero determinant of greatest order that can be selected from a given matrix by the elimination of rows and columns.</li><li>Mining: the classification of coal according to hardness, from lignite to anthracite.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to arrange in ranks or in regular formation: The men were ranked according to height.</li><li>He ranked the chess pieces on the board.</li><li>Synonyms: array, range, align.</li><li>to assign to a particular position, station, class, etc.: She was ranked among the most admired citizens.</li><li>to outrank: The colonel ranks all other officers in the squadron.</li><li>Slang: to insult; criticize.</li><li>(used without object) to form a rank or ranks.</li><li>to take up or occupy a place in a particular rank, class, etc.: to rank well ahead of the other students.</li><li>to have rank or standing.</li><li>to be the senior in rank: The colonel ranks at this camp.</li><li>Slang: to complain.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>