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WIKTIONARY
ranking
Adjective
  • Having a specified rank. in combination
  • Superior.
Noun
  • One’s relative placement in a list.
Verb
  • present participle of rank
rank
Adjective
  • Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter.
  • Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
  • Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
  • Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
  • Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
  • Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
  • Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
  • Gross, disgusting. informal
  • Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong. obsolete
  • Inflamed with venereal appetite. obsolete
Adverb
  • Quickly, eagerly, impetuously. obsolete
Noun
  • 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"].
  • In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal. music
  • One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality
  • The level of one's position in a class-based society
  • a hierarchical level in an organization such as the military
  • a level in a scientific taxonomy system taxonomy
  • Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix. linear algebra
  • The dimensionality of an array or tensor . mathematics
  • one of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those which run from letter to letter). The analog vertical lines are the files. chess
Verb
  • To place abreast, or in a line.
  • To have a ranking.
  • To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
  • To take rank of; to outrank. US