What is the difference between relegate and rank?
relegate | rank |
Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
# (done to a person) Exile or banish to a particular place.
# (reflexive, obsolete, rare) Remove (oneself) to a distance from something or somewhere.
# (transitive, historical, Ancient Rome, done to a person) Banish from proximity'' to Rome for a set time; compare '' .
#* .
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# (figuratively) Remove or send to a place far away.
(in extended use) Consign or assign.
# Consign (a person or thing) to a place, position, or role of obscurity, insignificance, oblivion, or (especially) inferiority.
# Assign (a thing) to an appropriate place or situation based on appraisal or classification.
# (sports, chiefly, soccer) Transfer (a sports team) to a lower-ranking league division.
Refer or submit.
# Refer (a point of contention) to an authority in deference to the judgment thereof.
# Submit (something) to someone else for appropriate action thereby; compare delegate.
# Submit or refer (someone) to'' someone or something else ''for some reason or purpose.
A person who has been banished from proximity to Rome for a set time, but without losing his civil rights.
(archaic) Relegated]]; [[exile, exiled.
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).
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=March 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, 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"].
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
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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 relegate and rank
is that relegate is exile, banish, remove, or send away while rank is to place abreast, or in a line.As nouns the difference between relegate and rank
is that relegate is a person who has been banished from proximity to rome for a set time, but without losing his civil rights while rank is 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"].As adjectives the difference between relegate and rank
is that relegate is relegated]]; [[exile|exiled while rank is (obsolete) strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.As a adverb rank is
(obsolete) quickly, eagerly, impetuously.relegate
English
Etymology 1
First attested in 1561: from (“I dispatch”, “I banish”).Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
Derived terms
* (l), (l)References
* “relegate, v.''” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * “
relegate, v.''” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision, March 2010)
Etymology 2
First attested circa 1550: from the Classical (etyl) (“I dispatch”, “I banish”).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)References
* “†?relegate, n.''” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * “
†relegate, n.''” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary (draft revision, December 2009)
Etymology 3
First attested circa 1425: from the Classical (etyl) (“I dispatch”, “I banish”).Alternative forms
* (l) * (l)Adjective
(-)References
* “†relegate, adj.'']” listed in the ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary](draft revision, June 2010)
Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----rank
English
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
- (Mortimer)
- 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.}}
- (Shakespeare)
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.