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Rankness

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Noun

1. fertility, prolificacy, rankness, richness

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth

Example Sentences:
'he praised the richness of the soil'
'weeds lovely in their rankness'

2. fetidness, foulness, malodorousness, rankness, stinkiness

the attribute of having a strong offensive smell

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Rankness

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noun
1. 
a position, esp an official one, within a social organization, esp the armed forces
the rank of captain
2. 
high social or other standing; status
3. 
a line or row of people or things
4. 
the position of an item in any ordering or sequence
5. British
a place where taxis wait to be hired
6. 
a line of soldiers drawn up abreast of each other
Compare file1 (sense 5)
7. 
any of the eight horizontal rows of squares on a chessboard
8. 
(in systemic grammar) one of the units of description of which a grammar is composed. Ranks of English grammar are sentence, clause, group, word, and morpheme
9. music
a set of organ pipes controlled by the same stop
10. mathematics
(of a matrix) the largest number of linearly independent rows or columns; the number of rows (or columns) of the nonzero determinant of greatest order that can be extracted from the matrix
11.  break ranks
12.  close ranks
13.  pull rank
verb
14. (transitive)
to arrange (people or things) in rows or lines; range
15. 
to accord or be accorded a specific position in an organization, society, or group
16. (transitive)
to array (a set of objects) as a sequence, esp in terms of the natural arithmetic ordering of some measure of the elements
to rank students by their test scores
17. (intransitive)
to be important; rate
money ranks low in her order of priorities
18. mainly US
to take precedence or surpass in rank
the colonel ranks at this camp
adjective
1. 
showing vigorous and profuse growth
rank weeds
2. 
highly offensive or disagreeable, esp in smell or taste
3. (prenominal)
complete or absolute; utter
a rank outsider
4. 
coarse or vulgar; gross
his language was rank
noun
1. (ræŋk )
J(oseph) Arthur, 1st Baron. 1888–1972, British industrialist and film executive, whose companies dominated the British film industry in the 1940s and 1950s
2. (German raŋk)
Otto (ˈɔto). 1884–1939, Austrian psychoanalyst, noted for his theory that the trauma of birth may be reflected in certain forms of mental illness

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Rankness

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verb intransitive
13. 
to hold a certain rank, or position
to rank third on a list
14.  Archaic
to form a rank or move in ranks
adjective
1. 
growing vigorously and coarsely; overly luxuriant
rank grass
2. 
producing or covered with a luxuriant crop; extremely fertile
3. 
strong and offensive in smell or taste; rancid
4. 
in bad taste; coarse
5. 
complete; utter
rank deceit
6.  Obsolete
in sexual heat
noun
1. 
a row, line, or series
2. 
an orderly arrangement
3. 
a social division or class; stratum of society
people from all ranks of life
4. 
a high position in society; high degree; eminence
a person of rank
5. 
an official grade or position
the rank of captain
6. 
a relative position, usually in a scale classifying persons or things; grade; degree
a poet of the first rank
7. 
any of the rows of squares on a chessboard extending from side to side, perpendicular to the files
8.  Military
a. 
a row of soldiers, vehicles, etc. placed side by side, or abreast of one another
see also file1 (sense 11)
b.  [pl.]
the body of soldiers of an army, as distinguished from the officers [to rise from the ranks]
, often used metaphorically to refer to the ordinary members of any group, as opposed to its leaders
9.  Music
stop (sense 18) stop (sense 18a)
verb transitive
10. 
to place in a rank or ranks
11. 
to assign a certain rank, or position, to
12.  US
to have a higher rank than; outrank

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Rankness

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adj. rank·er, rank·est
1. Growing profusely or with excessive vigor: rank vegetation.
2. Yielding a profuse, often excessive crop; highly fertile: rank earth.
3. Strong and offensive in odor or flavor: rank gym clothes.
4. Absolute; complete: a rank amateur; rank treachery. See Synonyms at flagrant.

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