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Ranks vs Lanks - What's the difference?

ranks | lanks |

As nouns the difference between ranks and lanks

is that ranks is while lanks is .

As a verb ranks

is (rank)''.

ranks

English

Noun

(head)
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    • , date=September 27 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Although it was only City's second appearance in the Champions League, they had plenty of European experience in their ranks and they were confident in possession early on.}}

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rank)''

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    lanks

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lank)

    • lank

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
  • * Meager and lank with fasting grown. - .
  • * Who would not choose ... to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? - .
  • * Blacks in the fields, lank'' and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton. - 1985 , chapter 1.
  • (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (often associated with being greasy)
  • * Lank hair, long, thin hair. -
  • (obsolete) languid; drooping.
  • * Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. -
    • (Macaulay)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To become lank; to make lank.
    • (Webster 1913)

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