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Ranketh vs Rangeth - What's the difference?

ranketh | rangeth |

As verbs the difference between ranketh and rangeth

is that ranketh is (archaic) (rank) while rangeth is (range).

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.
  • *{{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 ----

    rangeth

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (range)

    • range

    English

    (wikipedia range)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
  • A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:
    • Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fornaces all burning bright;
  • * L'Estrange
    • He was bid at his first coming to take off the range , and let down the cinders.
  • Selection, array.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black), title=Internal Combustion
    • , chapter=2 citation , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
  • An area for practicing shooting at targets.
  • An area for military training or equipment testing.
  • The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
  • Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
  • An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
  • Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
    • Far as creation's ample range extends.
  • * Bishop Fell
    • The range and compass of Hammond's knowledge filled the whole circle of the arts.
  • * Addison
    • A man has not enough range of thought.
  • (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
  • (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
  • (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
  • (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
  • (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
  • (programming) A sequential list of iterators that are specified by a beginning and ending iterator.
  • An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • The next range of beings above him are the immaterial intelligences.
  • (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
    • (Clarendon)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
  • A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
  • * South
    • He may take a range all the world over.
  • (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
  • The scope of something, the extent which something covers or includes.

    • Synonyms

    * (area for military training) base, training area, training ground * (distance to an object) distance, radius * compass

    Antonyms

    * (values a function can obtain) domain

    Holonyms

    * (values a function can obtain) codomain

    Derived terms

    * (area for practicing shooting) archery range * (area for practicing shooting) firing range * (area for practicing shooting) indoor range * (area for practicing shooting) shooting range * (area for practicing shooting) target range * (area for military training) air weapons range * (area for military training) artillery range * (area for military training) grenade range * (area for military training) live-fire range * (area for military training) missile range * (area for military training) rocket range * (area for military training) tank range * (maximum range) effective range * (maximum range) maximum range

    Related terms

    * shooting gallery * oven

    Verb

  • To travel (over) (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
  • To rove over or through.
    • to range the fields
  • * John Gay
    • Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake.
  • (obsolete) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit (to), (over).
  • *, I.40:
    • The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents.
  • To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
  • * 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
    • At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside.
  • * 1910 , (Saki), ‘The Bag’, Reginald in Russia :
    • In ranging herself as a partisan on the side of Major Pallaby Mrs. Hoopington had been largely influenced by the fact that she had made up her mind to marry him at an early date.
  • (mathematics, computing''; ''followed by over ) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=Kevin Heng
    • , title= Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily? , volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging' from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities ' range from that of styrofoam to iron.}}
  • To classify.
    • to range plants and animals in genera and species
  • To form a line or a row.
    • The front of a house ranges with the street.
  • * Dryden
    • which way the forests range
  • * 1873 , ,
    • The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms, / Amidst the soundless solitudes immense / Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
  • To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And range with humble livers in content.
  • To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
  • * Bible, 2 Macc. xii. 20
    • Maccabeus ranged his army by hands.
  • To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
  • * Burke
    • It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.
  • (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
    • The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
  • To separate into parts; to sift.
    • (Holland)
  • To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
    • to range the coast
    * (English Citations of "range")

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