Race vs Rank - What's the difference?

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Race is a related term of rank.

As adjectives the difference between race and rank

is that race is distinguished; classy while rank is heavy, serious, grievous.

As a verb race

is .

race

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , (etyl) and (etyl) (m).

Noun

(racing)

A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Several horses run in a horse race , and the first one to reach the finishing post wins

The race around the park was won by Johnny, who ran faster than the others.

We had a race to see who could finish the book the quickest.

* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):

After days of intensifying pressure from runners, politicians and the general public to call off the New York City Marathon in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, city officials and the event’s organizers decided Friday afternoon to cancel the race .

A progressive movement toward a goal.

A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a mill wheel.

Swift progress; rapid course; a running.

* Francis Bacon

The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of any beasts.

Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.

* Milton

My race' of glory run, and ' race of shame.

Travels, runs, or journeys. (rfex)

The bushings of a rolling element bearing which contacts the rolling elements.

Derived terms

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Verb

(rac)

To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).

To compete against in such a race.

To move or drive at high speed.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan

, volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}

Of a motor, to run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.

* 1891 (December) (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Man with the Twisted Lip :

"My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built."

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), of uncertain origin. According to philologist Gianfranco Contini,Devoto, Giacomo, Avviamento all'etimologia italiana , Mondadori. the Italian word comes from (etyl) (m) . Some authorities suggest derivation from (etyl) (m), (m), from earlier (m), . This, however, is difficult to support, since Italian (m) predates the Spanish word.Diez, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen, "Razza." Another possible source is (etyl) . A fourth possibility is that the Italian razza'' derives from (etyl) ratio through an unattested intermediate form *''razzo .

Noun

(wikipedia race)

A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common heritage or characteristics:

# A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.

#* 1913', Martin Van Buren Knox, ''The religious life of the Anglo-Saxon '''race

# A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.

Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.

# (controversial usage) One of the categories from the many subcategorizations of the human species. See Wikipedia's article on .

#* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April

, author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race'. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by ' race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}

The Native Americans colonized the New World in several waves from Asia, and thus they are considered part of the same Mongoloid race .

# A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage .

A treaty was concluded between the race''' of elves and the '''race of men.

#* 1898 , Herman Isidore Stern, The gods of our fathers: a study of Saxon mythology , page 15)

There are two distinct races of gods known to Norse mythology[.]

(biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; (an informal term for) a subspecies.

A breed or strain of domesticated animal.

* Shakespeare

For do but note a wild and wanton herd, / Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, / Fetching mad bounds.

(figuratively) A category or species of something that has emerged or evolved from an older one (with an implied parallel to animal breeding or evolutionary science).

The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur.

Recent developments in artificial intelligence has brought about a new race of robots that can perform household chores without supervision.

Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.

* Shakespeare

a race of heaven

* Massinger

Is it [the wine] of the right race ?

Characteristic quality or disposition.

* Shakespeare

And now I give my sensual race the rein.

* Sir W. Temple

Some great race of fancy or judgment.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

(Terms derived from the noun "race") * * * * * *

Etymology 3

From (etyl), from (etyl) (m).

Noun

(en noun)

A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.

* 1842 , Gibbons Merle, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual , page 433:

On the third day after this second boiling, pour all the syrup into a pan, put the races of ginger with it, and boil it up until the syrup adheres to the spoon.

Statistics

Anagrams

* (l), (l) * (l)

References

* '' Diez, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen, "Razza." * Notes: English terms with multiple etymologies ----

rank

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Adjective

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

And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)

, title= 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.}}

Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.

* 1899 , (Joseph Conrad),

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

Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.

(Mortimer)

Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.

Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.

* (Robert Boyle) (1627-1691)

Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they feed.

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

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=March 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, title= 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.}}
(label) Gross, disgusting.

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

(label) Inflamed with venereal appetite.

(Shakespeare)

Synonyms

* (bad odor) stinky, smelly ** See also: pong (UK) * (complete) complete, utter

Adverb

(en adverb)
(obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:

The seely man seeing him ryde so rancke , / And ayme at him, fell flat to ground for feare [...].

* Fairfax

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)
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"].

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

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 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
# (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

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

The fancy hotel was of the first rank.

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

a level in an organization such as the military

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.

(taxonomy) a level in a scientific taxonomy system

Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.

(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 .

Derived terms

* break rank * close ranks * pull rank

Verb

(en verb)
To place abreast, or in a line.

To have a ranking.

Their defense ranked third in the league.

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

* I. Watts

Ranking all things under general and special heads.

* Broome

Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.

* Dr. H. More

Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft.

(US) To take rank of; to outrank.

Anagrams

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