Rank vs State - What's the difference?
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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=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, 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.
A polity.
# Any sovereign polity; a government.
#* 20C , (Albert Einstein), as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)
#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= # A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States. See also Province.
# (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.}}
# (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
# (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
# (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
# (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
# (obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
High social standing or circumstance.
# Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
# Rank; condition; quality.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
# A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
# (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
#* 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :
# (obsolete) Estate, possession.
#* (Philip Massinger) (1583-1640)
(mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
(lb) To declare to be a fact.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
To make known.
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As an adjective rank
is heavy, serious, grievous.As a verb state is
.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.
Anagrams
* * * English intensifiers ----state
English
Noun
(wikipedia state) (en noun)- Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}
- Well monarchies may own religion's name, / But states are atheists in their very fame.
- Declare the past and present state of things.
- Thy honour, state , and seat is due to me.
- She instructed him how he should keep state , and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes.
- Can this imperious lord forget to reign, / Quit all his state , descend, and serve again?
- His high throne,under state / Of richest texture spread.
- When he went to court, he used to kick away the state , and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl.
- They who to States and Governours of the Commonwealth direct their Speech.
- (Daniel)
- Your state , my lord, again is yours.