Ranketh vs Raketh - What's the difference?

ranketh | raketh |

As verbs the difference between ranketh and raketh

is that ranketh is (archaic) (rank) while raketh is (rake).

ranketh

English

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (rank)

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.

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, 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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raketh
English

Verb
(head)
(rake)

rake
English
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Etymology 1
(etyl) raca, from (etyl)
Noun
(en noun)
A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris, or for loosening soil.

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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake -handle served as a shaft.

A lot, plenty.

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(lb) The direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.

(lb) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.

(lb) A set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.

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(lb) A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.

The scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.

A toothed machine drawn by a horse, used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.

(lb) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.

Synonyms
* (rail transport)
Derived terms
* thin as a rake
Verb
(rak)
To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris from.

We raked all the leaves into a pile

To search thoroughly.

Detectives appeared, roped the curious people out of the grounds, and raked the place for clews. -- Captain John Blaine

* Dryden

raking in Chaucer for antiquated words

* Jonathan Swift

The statesman rakes the town to find a plot.

To spray with gunfire.

the enemy machine guns raked the roadway

To claw at; to scratch.

Her sharp fingernails raked the side of my face.

* Wordsworth

like clouds that rake the mountain summits

To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in)

The casino is just raking in the cash; it's like a license to print money.

To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

* Sir Philip Sidney

Pas could not stay, but over him did rake .

Synonyms
* (search thoroughly) comb, go over or through with a fine-tooth comb, scour
Etymology 2
From (etyl) raken, from (etyl) .
Noun
(en noun)
Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular

Verb
(rak)
To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.

(obsolete) To guide; to direct

To incline from a perpendicular direction.

A mast rakes aft.

Etymology 3
Shortening of rakehell, possibly from
Noun
(en noun)
A man habituated to immoral conduct.

We now have rakes in the habit of Roman senators, and grave politicians in the dress of Rakes. — the Spectator

Synonyms
*
Verb
(rak)
(UK, dialect, dated) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.

(UK, dialect, dated) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.

(Shenstone)

Etymology 4
From (etyl), from (etyl) .
Alternative forms
* (l)
Noun
(en noun)
(provincial, Northern England) a course; direction; stretch.

(provincial, Northern England, for animals) a range, stray.

a sheep-raik'' = a ''sheep-walk

Verb
(rak)
(provincial, Northern England) To run or rove.

References
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Anagrams
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