Rank vs Train - What's the difference?

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Rank is a related term of train.

As an adjective rank

is heavy, serious, grievous.

As a noun train is

elongated portion or train can be (obsolete) treachery; deceit.

As a verb train is

to practice an ability.

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

* * * English intensifiers ----

train
English
(wikipedia train)
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English.
Noun
(en noun)
Elongated portion.

# The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.

#* 1817 , (Jane Austen), Northanger Abbey :

They called each other by their Christian name, were always arm in arm when they walked, pinned up each other's train for the dance, and were not to be divided in the set [...].

#*

#* 2011 , Imogen Fox, The Guardian , 20 Apr 2011:

Lace sleeves, a demure neckline, a full skirt and a relatively modest train .

# A trail or line (of) something, especially gunpowder.

#* 1873 , (Charlotte Mary Yonge), Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for the little ones :

A party was sent to search, and there they found all the powder ready prepared, and, moreover, a man with a lantern, one Guy Fawkes, who had undertaken to be the one to set fire to the train of gunpowder, hoping to escape before the explosion.

#

Connected sequence of people or things.

# A group of people following an important figure, king etc.; a retinue, a group of retainers.

#* 1610 , , act 5 scene 1

Sir, I invite your Highness and your train / To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest /For this one night

#* 2009 , (Anne Easter Smith), The King's Grace :

Grace was glad the citizenry did not know Katherine Gordon was in the king's train , but she was beginning to understand Henry's motive for including the pretender's wife.

# A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.

# A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure (of) something.

#* 1872 , (Charles Darwin), The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals :

A man may be absorbed in the deepest thought, and his brow will remain smooth until he encounters some obstacle in his train of reasoning, or is interrupted by some disturbance, and then a frown passes like a shadow over his brow.

#* 2012 , Rory Carroll, The Guardian , 18 Jun 2012:

"Where was I?" he asked several times during the lunch, losing his train of thought.

# (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.

# A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.

# A series of electrical pulses.

# A series (of) specified vehicles, originally tramcars in a mine, and later especially railway carriages, coupled together.

# A line of connected railway cars or carriages considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail travel.

#*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.
#* 2009 , (Hanif Kureishi), The Guardian , 24 Jan 2009:

This winter we thought we'd go to Venice by train , for the adventure.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) , title= Ideas coming down the track , passage=A “moving platform” scheme
# A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.

# (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a woman or bottom, especially as a form of gang rape.

#* 1988 , X Motion Picture and Center for New Art Activities (New York, N.Y.), Bomb: Issues 26-29 , link

Then Swooney agreed, "Yeah, let's run a train up the fat cunt."

#* 2005 , Violet Blue, Best Women's Erotica 2006: Volume 2001 , link

“You want us to run a train on you?”

#* 2010 , Diesel King, A Good Time in the Hood , page 12

We eventually began to decide that with the endless supply of men we had there was no need to only run trains , or gangbang, the insatiables.

Derived terms
* ammunition train * baggage train * freight train * goods train * it's not the whistle that pulls the train * mail train * pack train * railroad train * railway train * road train * steam train * supply train * trainiac * trainmaster * train track * vactrain * wagon train
Descendants
* Irish: (l) * Welsh:
Verb
(en verb)
To practice an ability.

To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline.

* Dryden

The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train .

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}

To improve one's fitness.

To proceed in sequence.

To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.

(horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.

* Jeffrey

He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left.

(mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.

(video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).

* 2000 , "Sensei David O.E. Mohr - Lord Ronin from Q-Link", WTB:"The Last V-8" C128 game -name correction'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.cbm )

I got a twix on the 128 version being fixed and trained by Mad Max at M2K BBS 208-587-7636 in Mountain Home Idaho. He fixes many games and puts them on his board. One of my sources for games and utils.

(obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.

* Milton

In hollow cube / Training his devilish enginery.

(obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.

* Shakespeare

If but a dozen French / Were there in arms, they would be as a call / To train ten thousand English to their side.

* Shakespeare

O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note.

* Ford

This feast, I'll gage my life, / Is but a plot to train you to your ruin.

Derived terms
* trainer * training * weight-train * weight training
Etymology 2
From (etyl) traine, (etyl) .
Noun
(en noun)
(obsolete) Treachery; deceit.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:

In the meane time, through that false Ladies traine / He was surprisd, and buried under beare, / Ne ever to his worke returnd againe [...].

(obsolete) A trick or stratagem.

(obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare.

(obsolete) A lure; a decoy.

Anagrams
* (l) English ergative verbs 1000 English basic words ----