Classed vs Ranked - What's the difference?
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(class)
(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
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, title= (countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.
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, title= (uncountable) The division of society into classes.
(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
(countable, and, uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
A series of classes covering a single subject.
(countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
(countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
(biology, taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Best of its kind.
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(mathematics) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
(military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
(programming, object-oriented) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader .
To assign to a class; to classify.
* , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 To be grouped or classed.
To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
(Irish, British, slang) great; fabulous
(rank)
Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter.
Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
* Bible, (w) xli. 5
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, title= Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
* 1899 , (Joseph Conrad),
Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
* (Robert Boyle) (1627-1691)
Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
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, title= (label) Gross, disgusting.
(label) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
(label) Inflamed with venereal appetite.
(obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
* Fairfax
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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, chapter=7 # (chess) one of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard [the corresponding term for a vertical line is "file"].
(music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality
(class)The level of one's position in a class-based society
a level in an organization such as the military
(taxonomy) a level in a scientific taxonomy system
(linear algebra) Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor (mathematics).
(chess) 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 .
To place abreast, or in a line.
To have a ranking.
To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
* I. Watts
* Broome
* Dr. H. More
(US) To take rank of; to outrank.
As verbs the difference between classed and ranked
is that classed is (class) while ranked is (rank).classed
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*class
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(wikipedia class)Noun
Wolverhampton 1-2 Newcastle, passage=The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* business class * character class * class action * class clown * class diagram * class reunion * class struggle * economy class * equivalence class * first class * form class * middle class * noun class * pitch class * professional class * school class * second class * social class * spectral class * super class * third class * touch of class * upper class * working class * abstract class * anonymous/local class * base class * class diagram * convenience class * factory class * final class * inner class * outer class * static class * subclass * wrapper classVerb
citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
- — Tatham.
Derived terms
(Derived terms) * outclass * subclassAdjective
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*External links
* * 1000 English basic words ----ranked
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * * * *rank
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
- And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
- The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple
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- Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they feed.
Chelsea 2-1 Man Utd, passage=Chelsea remain rank outsiders to retain their crown and they still lie 12 points adrift of United, but Ancelotti will regard this as a performance that supports his insistence that they can still have a say when the major prizes are handed out this season.}}
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Synonyms
* (bad odor) stinky, smelly ** See also: pong (UK) * (complete) complete, utterAdverb
(en adverb)- The seely man seeing him ryde so rancke , / And ayme at him, fell flat to ground for feare [...].
- That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell.
Etymology 2
(etyl) , which is of uncertain origin. Akin to (etyl) . More at (ring).Noun
(en noun)- The front rank''' kneeled to reload while the second '''rank fired over their heads.
citation, passage=Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs
- Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.
- The fancy hotel was of the first rank.
- Private First Class (PFC) is the lowest rank in the Marines.
- He rose up through the ranks of the company from mailroom clerk to CEO.
- Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.
Derived terms
* break rank * close ranks * pull rankVerb
(en verb)- Their defense ranked third in the league.
- Ranking all things under general and special heads.
- Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.
- Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft.