Ranked vs Placed - What's the difference?
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(rank)
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
*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
, 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.
(place)
(label) An area; somewhere within an area.
# A location or position.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#* , chapter=5
, title= #* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
# An open space, courtyard, market square.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# A group of houses.
# A region of a land.
#* , chapter=22
, title= # Somewhere for a person to sit.
# (label) A house or home.
A frame of mind.
(label) A position, a responsibility.
# A role or purpose; a station.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= # The position of a contestant in a competition.
# The position as a member of a sports team.
Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
* Mather Byles
Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
* Bible, (w) viii. 37
To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= To earn a given spot in a competition.
To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
(in the passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
To arrange for or to make (a bet).
To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
As verbs the difference between ranked and placed
is that ranked is (rank) while placed is (place).ranked
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * * * *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 ----placed
English
Verb
(head)Statistics
* ----place
English
(wikipedia place)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Here is the place appointed.
- What place can be for us / Within heaven's bound?
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
George Goodchild
- Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
- Men in great place are thrice servants.
- I know my place as I would they should do theirs.
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}
- In the first place', I do not understand politics; in the second '''place''', you all do, every man and mother's son of you; in the third ' place , you have politics all the week, pray let one day in the seven be devoted to religion
- My word hath no place in you.
Synonyms
* courtyard, piazza, plaza, square * (location) location, position, situation, stead, stell, spot * (somewhere to sit) seat * (frame of mind) frame of mind, mindset, moodDerived terms
* abiding place * all dressed up and no place to go * all over the place * come from a good place * decimal place * dwelling place * hiding place * in the first place * meeting place * out of place * passing place * place card * place-kick * place mat * place name * place of articulation * place of decimals * place of worship * resting place * sticking-place * the other place * give place * take place * workplaceVerb
(plac)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.}}