Word Finder - rank

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Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).

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rank nonsense

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Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.

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rank grass

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Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.

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Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.

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rank land

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Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.

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Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.

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Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?

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• pong
• smelly
• stinky

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Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).

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I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith.

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• complete
• utter

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Gross, disgusting.

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Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

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Inflamed with venereal appetite; ruttish.

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Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

The soldier looked over his subdued rank then at Dan and Elise.

You rank up near Damian now.

There are deacons in Presbyterianism inferior in rank to presbyters, their duties being regarded as non-spiritual.

Its publication placed him in the first rank of contemporary poets, and amongst other things procured him admission to the literary circle of Maecenas.

In 1830 and 1831 he took part in the Dutch campaign in Belgium, and in 1844, after being promoted to the rank of general, was sent on an important mission to the Dutch East Indies to inquire into the state of their military defences.

In 1844 he graduated at Harvard with high rank.

It is the oldest school of engineering in the country, and has always maintained a high rank of efficiency.

The multitude of species and the many intermediate forms render their exact limitation difficult, but those presenting sufficiently marked characters to justify specific rank probably approach 300 in number.

Partly on account of his inability to share in the amusements of his fellows by reason of a deformity due to vaccine poisoning before he was five (the poison permanently arresting the growth and development of his legs), he was an eager student, and in 1814 he graduated at the College of South Carolina with the highest rank in his class and with a reputation throughout the state for scholarship and eloquence.

In the number of sheep the state rose from fourth rank in 1880 to first in 1890, but dropped to tenth rank in 1900, when there were 1,439,940 head; in 1910 1 Not including farms of less than three acres and of small productive capacity.

In 1775 he attained his flag rank, and in 1778 became a vice-admiral.

I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do.

The concubine was a wife, though not of the same rank; the first wife had no power over her.

A man who killed another in a quarrel must swear he did not do so intentionally, and was then only fined according to the rank of the deceased.

He graduated with high rank from Columbia College in 1842, having supported himself through his course.

There are three higher commercial schools, with academic rank, at Venice, Genoa and Ban, and eleven secondary commercial schools; and technical and commercial schools for women at Florence and Milan.

Besides many hundreds of princes, dukes, marquesses, counts, barons and viscounts, there are a large number of persons of patrician rank, persons with a right to the designation nobile or signor-i, and certain hereditary knights or cavalieri.

In a paper on a " Proposed New Version of the Bible " he paraphrased a few verses of the first chapter of Job, making them a satiric attack on royal government; but the version may well rank with these hoaxes, and even modern writers have been taken in by it, regarding it as a serious proposal for a " modernized " version and decrying it as poor taste.

He took part as a colonel in the Crimean War, and after the battle of Inkerman received the rank of general of brigade.

In 1866 he was appointed colonel of the 42nd infantry (Veteran Reserve Corps), and in 1869 he was retired with the rank of major-general.

In Homer he is the origin of all things, even the father of the gods, and the equal in rank of all of them save Zeus.

Gera (in ancient chronicles Geraha) was raised to the rank of a town in the IIth century, at which time it belonged to the counts of Groitch.

In 1870 Ballarat was raised to the rank of a city.

He was taken from the Federal service in Washington to New York City by a reform mayor and put in charge of the police, because he had shown both physical and moral courage in fighting corruption of all sorts; and the New York police force at that time was thoroughly tainted with corruption, not in its rank and file, but among its superior officers, who used the power in their hands to extort money bribes chiefly from saloonkeepers, liquor-dealers, gamblers and prostitutes.

Silver was raised in the 12th century, and argentiferous lead is still the most valuable ore mined; tin, iron and cobalt rank next, and coal is one of the chief exports.

He takes no rank as a scientific theologian, being a man of activity rather than of speculation or of much insight.

As a Hebrew philologist he holds high rank; and as a constructive critic he is remarkable for acuteness a.nd sagacity.

Their career of conquest, and their new policy of forming Italian alliances and entering into the management of Italian affairs were confirmed by the long dogeship of Francesco Foscari (1423-1457), who must rank with Alfonso, Cosimo de Medici, Francesco Sforza and Nicholas V., as a joint-founder of confederated Italy.

Philips Austrian successors reduced it to the rank of a secondary European power.

Volhard, and these methods rank side by side in value with the older and more tedious gravimetric methods.

It passed into the hands of the houses of Rieux and Lorraine, and was raised to the rank of a duchy in the peerage of France by Henry III.

His father, Claude Babeuf, had deserted the French army in 1738 and taken service under Maria Theresa, rising, it is said, to the rank of major.

As a map compiler Ptolemy does not take a high rank.

Masudi, who saw the maps in the Horismos or Rasm el Ard, a description of which was engraved for King Roger of Sicily upon a silver plate, or the rectangular map in 70 sheets which accompanies his geography (Nushat-ul Mushtat) take rank with Ptolemy's work.

Among the geographical establishments of Germany, that founded by Justus Perthes (1785), at Gotha, occupies the highest rank.

They were to be elected for five years by seventeen of the tribes chosen by lot from the thirty-five; the imperium was to be conferred upon them by the lex curiata, together with judicial powers and the rank of praetor.

This comprises only the chancel and aisles of a building which, if entire, would rank as one of the finest parish churches in England.

In January 1846, at the request of the magistrates and people of Perugia, he was appointed bishop of that city with the rank of archbishop; but before returning to Italy he spent February in London, and March and April in Paris.

In India he established a diocesan hierarchy, with seven archbishoprics, the archbishop of Goa taking precedence with the rank of patriarch.

He always showed the greatest interest in science and in literature, and he would have taken a position as a statesman of the first rank had he held office in any secular government.

Familiae of gladiators were kept by private speculators, who hired them out; they were sometimes owned by men of high rank.

Freedmen of humbler rank, on the other hand, filled the minor offices in the administrative service, in the city cohorts, and in the army; and we shall find that they entered largely into the trades and professions when free labour began to revive.

When the sufferers were of humble rank not much notice was taken of them.

It placed the author in the front rank of European publicists, and won him the friendship of some of the most distinguished men of the time, including Burke himself.

About the same time Marsilio completed and published his treatise on the Platonic doctrine of immortality (Theologia Platonica de immortalitate animae), the work by which his claims to take rank as a philosopher must be estimated.

The hieratica thus descended to the third rank.

For Zoroaster they sink to the rank of spurious deities, and in his eyes their priests and votaries are idolaters and heretics.

He retired with the honorary rank of colonel in 1880.

His contributions to the theories of Elasticity and of Waves rank high among modern developments of mathematical physics, although they are mere units among the 150 scientific papers attached to his name in the Royal Society's Catalogue.

It was not until he became secretary (1837) of the newly created board of education of Massachusetts, that be began the work which was soon to place him in the foremost rank of American educationists.