Word Finder - ranks

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A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the perpendicular columns in such a pattern is "file"].

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The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.

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In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.

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One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality

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Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.

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The level of one's position in a class-based society

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A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military

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He rose up through the ranks of the company, from mailroom clerk to CEO.

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A level in a scientific taxonomy system

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Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.

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Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.

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The dimensionality of an array or tensor.

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The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).

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The size of any basis of a given matroid.

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One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number). The analog vertical lines are the files.

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(typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation.

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To place abreast, or in a line.

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To have a ranking.

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Their defense ranked third in the league.

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To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.

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To take rank of; to outrank.

If we do as you say, will you stop whatever it is you're doing in my ranks and leave me alone?

Petroleum ranks second to coal among the state's mineral resources.

She was neatly dressed with dual ranks, that of Special Assistant to the VP and Special Assistant to Mr. Tim's position.

I dutifully trekked back through the ranks, lying that I'd been cut off.

Dr Burmeister was afterwards placed in charge of the provincial museum of Buenos Aires, and devoted himself to the acquisition of a collection of fossil remains, now in the La Plata museum, which ranks among the best of the world.

Nevada ranks sixth in size among the states of the Union.

There was no room for traitors in his ranks, not with his critical mission on the human world and his own mate within striking distance.

I've got a rat in my ranks.

Brady, I don't need to tell you that there are more rats in the fed ranks than I can find.

He couldn't help hoping he saw this strange, new mortal world again, and the rumors spreading throughout the ranks of guardsmen were just that—rumors.

He pressed as far into the ranks as he could and caught the last order issued by the wall commander before the group separated.

Frederick placed judges of his own appointment, with the title of podest, in all the Lombard commu1ies; and this stretch of his authority, while it exacerbated his foes, forced even his friends to join their ranks against him.

Its long and noble resistance, told by the Roman historian Livy in no less noble language, ranks with the Spanish defence of Saragossa in the Peninsular War.

Although his making religion the sole factor of this evolution was a perversion of the historical facts, the book was so consistent throughout, so full of ingenious ideas, and written in so striking a style, that it ranks as one of the masterpieces of the French language in the 19th century.

Thus a Dominican prior ranks ipso facto as a prelate during his three years of office, but, if not re-elected, loses this dignity with his jurisdiction.

The true, no less than the titular, prelates have their various ranks, differing as regards title, precedence, clothing and other insignia.

The 'Ulema form a powerful corporation, whose head, the Sheik-ul-Islam, ranks as a state functionary almost co-equal with the grand vizier.

His expostulations perhaps prove him to have been " the best general in his army," but he was dragged northwards to Inverness, and with depleted ranks of starving men, outworn by the fatigue of a long night's march to surprise Cumberland at Nairn, he stood on Culloden Moor in defence of Inverness, his base and only source of supplies (16th of April 11746).

Nebraska ranks very high in the production of cattle and hogs.

Jonny isn't quite ready yet to deal with the Others who have been stirring up trouble within the vamp ranks.

I want to thin their ranks.

Damian had assigned her here to help Jonny root out the vamps who were working with Others in the Black God's ranks.

Weapons were retrieved from a small barrel pushed through the loose ranks by a youth.

Obviously Mom had joined the ranks of those who thought marrying Denton was the only way she could live up to the O'Hara name.

It ranks sixth in point of size (after Sicily) among the islands of Europe, but it is much more sparsely populated.

Two important educational establishments are the Indian Institute for the education of civil service students for thecolonies, to which is attached an ethnographical museum; and the Royal Polytechnic school, which almost ranks as a university, and teaches, among other sciences, that of diking.

It was almost entirely rebuilt after a destructive fire in 1834, and ranks among the handsomest provincial towns in Austria.

The Roman priests are drawn from the seminaries, established by the church for the education of young men intending to join its ranks, and divided into lower and higher seminaries (grands et petits sminaires), the latter giving the same class of instruction as the tyces.

The officers of the army are obtained partly from the oldestablished military schools, partly from the ranks of the noncommissioned officers, the proportion of the latter being about one-third of the total number of officers.

The law further provides for the re-engagement of men of all ranks, under conditions varying according to their rank.

Educational establishments are numerous, and include Brighton College, which ranks high among English public schools.

He was for nearly eighteen years the soul of the republican conspiracies, the prompter of revolutionary propaganda, the chief inspirer of intrigues concerted by discontented military men of all ranks.

His journey ranks almost with Forrest's in the importance of its results and the success with which the appalling difficulties of the journey were overcome.

Towards the en._ cf October 20,000 shearers were called out, and many other trades, principally concerned with the handling or shipping of wool, joined the ranks of the strikers, with the result that the maritime and pastoral industries throughout the whole of Australia were most injuriously disturbed.

Youssouff acknowledged this protection given by a Frenchman by distinguishing himself in the ranks of the French army at the time of the conquest of Algeria.

Next in importance ranks the Banas, which rises in the south-west near Kankroli in Udaipur.

The production of mosaics is an industry still carried on with much success in Italy, which indeed ranks exceedingly high in th department.

In 1902 the special corps in Eritrea numbered about 4700 of all ranks, including nearly 4000 natives.

Be this as it may, the Lombards, their ranks swelled by the Gepidae, whom they had lately conquered, and by the wrecks of other barbarian tribes, passed southward under their king Alboin in 568.

The discords which followed on the break-up of the Carolingian power, and the weakness of the so-called Italian emperors, who were unable to control the feudatories (marquises of Ivrea and Tuscany, dukes of Friuli and Spoleto), from whose ranks they sprang, exposed Italy to ever-increasing misrule.

Novara, Vercelli, Asti and Tortona swelled its ranks; only Pavia and Montferrat remained imperialist between.

The worst governed part of the peninsula was the south, where feudalism lay heavily on the cultivators and corruption pervaded all ranks.

The third coalition was formed between Great Britain, Russia and Austria, Naples soon joining its ranks.

Crispi was the only man of truly statesmanlike calibre in the ranks of the Left.

It ranks, up to our own day, as the last of the great philosophies, and the boldest of all.

The third, or major examination, which qualifies for registration as a pharmaceutical chemist, is not, like the minor, a compulsory one, but ranks as an honours examination.

The grammar school now occupies modern buildings, and ranks among the lesser public schools of England, having scholarships at Pembroke College, Oxford.

Of the churches the Bovenkerk ("upper church"), or church of St Nicholas, ranks with the cathedral of Utrecht and the Janskerk at 's Hertogenbosch as one of the three great medieval churches in Holland.

But these grants and sales led to distinctions within the ranks of the noble order, like those of which we get faint glimpses among the Roman patricians.

This very popularity had the effect of attracting into their ranks charlatans of the worst type.