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rank | top |

As an adjective rank

is heavy, serious, grievous.

As a symbol top is

tongan.

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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top
English

Noun
(wikipedia top) (en noun)
(rfc-sense)The highest part or component of an object.

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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.

#The part viewed, or intended to be viewed, nearest the edge of the visual field normally occupied by the uppermost visible objects.

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#A lid, cap or cover of a container.

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#A garment worn to cover the torso.

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#(lb) A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.

#(lb) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.

#(lb) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.

#*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

#*:from top to toe

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:All the stored vengeance of Heaven fall / On her ungrateful top !

A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.

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(lb) Someone who is eminent.

#(lb) The chief person; the most prominent one.

#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

#*:to be the top of zealots

#The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.

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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:And wears upon his baby brow the round / And top of sovereignty.

#*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 29, author=Tom Rostance, work=BBC Sport
, title= Stoke 2-1 Besiktas , passage=After drawing their first game in Kiev the Potters are now top of Europa League Group E ahead of back-to-back games with Maccabi Tel-Aviv.}}
(lb) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.

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(lb) A top quark.

The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.

*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:The top of my ambition is to contribute to that work.

(lb) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.

(lb) Highest pitch or loudest.

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*, chapter=7
, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
(lb) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.

(lb) Eve; verge; point.

*(Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)

*:He was upon the top of his marriage with Magdaleine.

The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.

:(Knight)

Topboots.

:(Charles Dickens)

Synonyms
* head (of a page) * (lid) cap, cover, lid * (LGBT) pitcher, active, seme (Japanese fiction)
Antonyms
* (part of an object furthest away in the opposite direction from that in which an unsupported object would fall) base, bottom, underside * foot (of a page) * (garment) bottoms * (BDSM) bottom * (gay sexual slang) bottom, passive, pathic
Derived terms
* big top * curly top * desktop * hilltop * housetop * laptop * mountaintop * on top * on top of * on top of the world * palmtop * rooftop * tabletop * tiptop * top and tail * top-down * top-hole * topless * top of mind * top of the hour * top of the morning * topping * treetop
Verb
(topp)
To cover on the top or with a top.

I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce.

To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)

I don't want to be bald, so just top my hair.

Top and tail the carrots.

To excel, to surpass, to beat.

Titanic was the most successful film ever until it was topped by another Cameron film, Avatar.

* Shakespeare, King Lear

Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed, / And my invention thrive, Edmund the base / Shall top th' legitimate. I grow; I prosper

To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).

Celine Dion topped the UK music charts twice in the 1990s.

* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25442148]", BBC Sport , 26 December 2013:

Liverpool topped the table on Christmas Day and, after Arsenal's win at West Ham earlier on Boxing Day, would have returned to the top had they been the first team to beat City at home this season.

(British, slang) To commit suicide, (rare) to murder.

Depression causes many people to top themselves.

(BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

I used to be a slave, but I ended up topping .

Giving advice to the dominant partner on how to run the BDSM session is called "topping from the bottom".

(slang, gay sexuality) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.

(archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.

lofty ridges and topping mountains

(Derham)

(archaic) To predominate.

topping passions

* John Locke

influenced by topping uneasiness

(archaic) To excel; to rise above others.

(Dryden)

Synonyms
* (excel) beat, better, best, do better than, exceed, excel, outdo, surpass, trump, worst * (kill) ** (standard) kill, murder, slaughter, slay ** do in, do away with, take out, wipe out
Derived terms
* (kill) top oneself * untopped
Adjective
(-)
(informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.

(informal) Very good, of high quality.

Related terms
* top banana * top dog * top drawer * top hat
Adverb
(-)
Rated first.

She came top in her French exam.

Synonyms
* first
See also
* topple
Statistics
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Anagrams
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