I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a taxi rank British English , a taxi stand American English (= a place where taxis wait for customers )
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There's a taxi rank just outside the hotel.
cab rank
high rank
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a high rank in the US Navy
massed ranks/forces
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I look around me at the massed ranks of reporters.
rank alongside (= be equal to )
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Athletics should rank alongside soccer and cricket as a major sport.
rank and file
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The rank and file of the party had lost confidence in the leadership.
rank outsider British English
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Last year he was a rank outsider for the title.
serried ranks
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the serried ranks of reporters waiting outside
swell the ranks/numbers of sth (= increase the number of people in a particular situation )
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Large numbers of refugees have swollen the ranks of the unemployed.
taxi rank
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
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The higher the eventual rank , the more likely was blame to be similarly apportioned.
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In the highest rank , the brahmins were the priests, masters of spiritual matters.
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He reached high rank and for bravery was made a Hero of the Soviet Union.
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The Conqueror's bishops in Normandy included his half-brother, Odo of Bayeux, and several of high baronial rank .
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By the fifteenth century the higher ranks of the nobility had taken over again.
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There is nothing surprising in this continuing emphasis on noble birth and high social rank .
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Now there is talk of recruiting blacks and Latinos, traditionally absent from the higher union ranks , to more prominent positions.
junior
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Abdullah was the equivalent of a constable, the most junior career rank , almost on a par with conscripts.
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A second round of ministerial changes, in the middle and junior ranks , will be announced tomorrow.
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He signed for Palace on 8 March 1962 and progressed through the Junior ranks for a couple of seasons.
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He could mature well after coming through the junior ranks .
low
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Atkins was sent to the bar for drinks which would suggest that he had the lowest standing or rank .
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Low-ranking females will have young of whatever gender leaves the troop in order not to saddle the young with low rank .
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Such was the haste to build that the lower ranks of the Party were often not provided for properly.
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The leader of the future will push responsibility and accountability down to the lowest ranks of the organization.
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The 15 percent. was largely accounted for in the lower ranks .
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They mistreat those in a lower rank , pressure us unnecessarily hinting that they will sue us or call on our superiors.
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The lowest ranks of society showed the most striking and significant contrasts.
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How far were they newly promoted from the lower social ranks ?
massed
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For rural Britain faces the massed ranks of developers, poised for action with diggers and cranes.
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While they slept, heavy clouds swirled over the valley in massed ranks and the snow began to fall.
middle
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The critics argued that for the same money they could promote a lot more lecturers to the middle rank of Reader.
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The most that I can claim or flatter myself with, is to be of the middle rank ....
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A second round of ministerial changes, in the middle and junior ranks , will be announced tomorrow.
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Much is explained by the growth of purchasing power and consuming propensities among the middle ranks of society.
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The lower and even the middle ranks of the bureaucracy were to a considerable extent decentralized and independent of royal power.
republican
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This effort to head off support for the more costly Democratic bill failed to prevent 13 Republican senators breaking ranks .
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The Republican rank and file.&038;.
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The 1980s idea, that cuts pay for themselves, still has fans in Republican ranks .
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Dole denied any rift in Republican ranks as congressional leaders and Clinton prepared to resume their negotiations last night.
senior
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Since his arrival, Sir Kit McMahon has shunned the clearing-bank careerists who traditionally peppered Midland's senior ranks .
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Hundreds of people left immediately, especially from the combined group's senior ranks .
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It is extremely important to keep the senior ranks .
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He also said senior ranks would be employed on fixed term contracts, and their pay would be performance related.
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That depended on the skill and expertise of those senior ranks .
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The more senior ranks , such as sergeants, warrant officers, captains and majors, were all in post.
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The more senior ranks are usually more settled.
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It was achieved only because the senior ranks were there and able to provide the infrastructure and necessary training.
serried
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Dexter stood at the back of the conference suite behind the video cameras and serried ranks of reporters.
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There were occasions to admire the police enmasse as they marched in serried ranks to patriotic tunes from the Police Band.
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At least a hundred thousand people surrounded the cathedral where the chiefs in all their finery were massed in serried ranks .
social
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Empson's criticism bespeaks a man of some social rank , and in manner it is appropriately insouciant and grand.
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The supervisors commented frequently about social rank and status.
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How far were they newly promoted from the lower social ranks ?
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In primates it seems to be based on social rank .
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More subtly there is the unctuous sadism of money and of social rank .
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Opportunities for influence and participation are thus not dependent on the social rank or size of such groups.
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There is nothing surprising in this continuing emphasis on noble birth and high social rank .
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There is also an exaggerated demarcation of social distance between ranks , and deferential behavior by subordinate ranks toward superiors.
top
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I was enjoying running but was still not going to put in the time necessary to break into the top rank .
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Yorkshire Television is apparently going into the new franchise with not a woman in its top rank .
■ NOUN
cab
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A familiar figure got out of the bus and walked straight to the cab rank .
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McCready waited ten minutes, strolled to the cab rank on Tunistrasse and hailed a cab for Bonn.
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So I goes to the cab rank , and gets up on the box.
taxi
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He scurried over to the taxi rank .
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But the taxi rank outside the hotel had been full and idle and the target had been straight into a vehicle.
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Bus information: Brighton 206666. Taxi ranks are situated at convenient locations in the town centre.
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The front line is this taxi rank in the town centre.
■ VERB
break
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As she approached, one of them broke ranks and went to stand over Edward, apparently addressing him.
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Moderate Assembly Republicans broke ranks with conservative members to defeat a GOP-sponsored bill that would have returned corporal punishment to the classroom.
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This effort to head off support for the more costly Democratic bill failed to prevent 13 Republican senators breaking ranks .
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The party has broken ranks , with five of its nine presidential hopefuls calling for a review of the revisions.
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I was enjoying running but was still not going to put in the time necessary to break into the top rank .
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The older sisters played too, although one broke ranks to play volleyball in her junior college days.
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Only then, in the shock of the open air at last, did we break ranks and go our separate ways.
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But I broke ranks with him.
close
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The Crevecoeurs had always closed ranks in times of crisis, hadn't they?
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For a time, none the less, the Congregationalist clergy closed ranks around the Suspect Mayhew against the great enemy that Caner represented.
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What happens in this situation has been well documented: Each group becomes more cohesive, as members close ranks .
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She had done the unforgivable, and now we closed ranks against her.
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We must close ranks with them because we talk the same language.
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The Arab world is closing ranks against terror and everyone understands that this means terror against us.
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The male mafia will close ranks and deem such a woman unstable, neurotic and quite unsuitable for responsibility.
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Those who want to close ranks in this fashion will find themselves very lonely, however.
hold
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But they don't hold any rank with the army unless the Khan chooses, and they command only their own guard.
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Kimmel held four-star rank and Short wore three stars on the day of the attack.
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He held the rank of Boy First Class, and his duty was to help sight Chester's forward s.sin gun.
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She holds the same rank Schlesinger did when he joined the Marine Corps in 1930.
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His father had held army rank and won a medal in the last war.
join
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They accuse the authorities of intimidating others to stop them joining their ranks .
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Rice noted that Brown is not the only former speaker of a state legislature to join the mayoral ranks .
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The system co-opts others to join its ranks , and pays attention to some citizens very much more readily than others.
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Dole now joins the ranks fo the unencumbered.
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But after joining the Veteran ranks in August, Wheway has not disappointed his public.
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Both Ari and Nathan looked sullen and had clearly joined ranks over something.
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Both received top scores on their university examinations and joined the ranks of scholars.
pull
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Vi had the situation under control but the chief could, and probably would, pull rank .
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I do not enjoy pulling rank , but I do not tolerate unmanly gossip and back-biting.
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In the end, Naughtie pulled rank , and took on the task himself.
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He pulled rank and went to bed at half past eleven, leaving me on for the late-night drinks.
rise
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He joined the company in 1989 and steadily rose through the ranks .
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He rose up the executive ranks and was well rewarded.
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At that time a new dance director had risen through the ranks .
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An audible sigh of relief rose from the ranks of mainstream macroeconomists.
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He had a powerful mind and he rose to the top rank of the legal profession.
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For those with ability it is possible to rise through the ranks to senior maîtred'hôtel.
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He rose rapidly through the ranks and by sixteen had reached the highest position in the gang hierarchy.
swell
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But have the erstwhile long stay patients swelled the ranks of homeless people?
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The ships rode at anchor, their crews merely swelling the ranks of the spectators.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
close ranks
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He called for the Lebanese to close ranks behind his government.
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President Nixon's staff were instructed to close ranks in response to the Watergate arrests.
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The Republicans in Congress have closed ranks and refused to vote for the president's proposal.
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When she applied for promotion, the male managers all closed ranks and made sure she didn't get it.
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For a time, none the less, the Congregationalist clergy closed ranks around the Suspect Mayhew against the great enemy that Caner represented.
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She had done the unforgivable, and now we closed ranks against her.
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The Arab world is closing ranks against terror and everyone understands that this means terror against us.
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The Crevecoeurs had always closed ranks in times of crisis, hadn't they?
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The male mafia will close ranks and deem such a woman unstable, neurotic and quite unsuitable for responsibility.
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Those who want to close ranks in this fashion will find themselves very lonely, however.
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We must close ranks with them because we talk the same language.
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What happens in this situation has been well documented: Each group becomes more cohesive, as members close ranks.
the rank and file
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conflict between union leaders and the rank and file at an Alfa Romeo factory
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rank-and-file members
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The rank and file has lost confidence in the party leadership.
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The policy will now have to be approved by the rank and file.
thin the ranks
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Higher prices have thinned the ranks of prospective home owners.
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But the sector suffered like chemicals and shipping from cyclical downturns in world demand which thinned the ranks.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Four of the boys in Boy Scout Troop 611 reached the rank of Eagle Scout.
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Gang members wear clothes or decorations that show the member's rank .
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He joined the Los Angeles police department and was eventually promoted to the rank of lieutenant.
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She always wore rich fabrics and jewels, as befitted one of her rank .
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State your name, rank , and serial number.
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The position of Secretary of State holds Cabinet rank .
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They were all standing in ranks next to each other.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Applying the usual procedure to obtain this in another frame we obtain so that transforms as a rank 2 tensor.
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But we have not been able to attract them into the professorial ranks in anywhere near the percentage they are getting degrees.
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He was obviously destined for the professional ranks and as I watched him I could see why.
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Her rank , though high, did not meet the level protocol demanded of future empress.
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If anything, the past few days demonstrated even more turmoil in Democratic ranks.
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Now there is talk of recruiting blacks and Latinos, traditionally absent from the higher union ranks, to more prominent positions.
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So I goes to the cab rank , and gets up on the box.
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This hot work, however, had left the Confederate ranks badly fragmented.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Though both had appeared in the press and are very slight pamphlets, they rank as first editions in book form.
first
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Escondido west of Interstate 15 ranked first in price appreciation as well as sales activity.
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M., ranked first with 5. 25.
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Then, like now, he was ranked first after Police Commission interviews.
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Georgetown was a top seed that finished the season ranked first .
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At the time, they were ranked first , second, third, and fourth in the world.
high
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All were selected by national coaches and all are currently ranked high up in the 16 and 14 and under categories.
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Indiana ranked high as a preseason favorite, while Stanford went unnoticed in all three major polls.
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He was a much-decorated officer who had risen to high rank before an honourable retirement.
highly
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Personal development programmes and consultations with experts ranked highly in only one quarter of schools.
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Statistics for 1995 will be published in February, and Dallas-based Southwest hopes to rank highly once again.
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Every year some highly ranked team gets knocked off in the first round by some school that nobody thought stood a chance.
■ NOUN
bottom
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On the list of parent-child battles, the media has always ranked near the bottom .
candidate
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The city hired a consulting firm to rank the candidates on management and communication skills.
league
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Scores are not ranked into a league table.
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This season, he ranks fifth in the league in receiving yardage and has caught only five touchdown passes.
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Darlington may be the eighty-eighth-ranked League club but believe they have much to offer.
official
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The only heaters to be found were in the teachers' lounge and individual offices of deans and ranking officials .
state
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Kassebaum wanted some sort of rating system that would rank the states by the general health status of their populations.
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California ranks 41st among all states in the amount spent per pupil in kindergarten through high school.
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The Panthers are 4-0 and ranked second in the state . 10.
top
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The top stocks are ranked in Group 1 and the worst in Group 5.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the rank and file
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conflict between union leaders and the rank and file at an Alfa Romeo factory
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rank-and-file members
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The rank and file has lost confidence in the party leadership.
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The policy will now have to be approved by the rank and file.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Connell, a Canadian ranked 73rd in the world, won the third set.
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Sandoz ranks as one of the 10 largest drug companies in the world.
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She was beaten by someone who was ranked only 200th in the world.
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The name Michael always ranks high on the list of the most popular boys' names.
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The Rams have ranked near the bottom of the NFL for two seasons.
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Volleyball Monthly ranked the team third in the nation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Aetna ranked only satisfactory, as did CareAmerica.
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He ranks as one of the most gifted artists of all time.
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Nevertheless, as the table shows, we rank among the safest countries in the world.
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The following table shows some more recent Utopias, ranked according to date of publication.
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The run-time application of syntactic information uses the transition matrices and the lexicon to rank the words in the lattice.
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What factors correlate with people who rank structure highly?
III. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
outsider
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So I went to Ladbrokes and picked two rank outsiders and put some money on them and left.
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Last year he started as a rank outsider for the title.
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Though ridden by Graham McCourt, then third in the jump jockeys' table, Norton's Coin was a rank outsider .
smell
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The strange, rank smell was stronger than ever and after a few moments they all heard a heavy movement close by.
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Everywhere was the rank smell of copra drying.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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rank cheese
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rank hypocrisy
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Her students range from rank beginners to professionals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He also had a rank contempt for Desmond Morton.
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Of course the rank darkness was different at sunrise or dusk.
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The jute had an acrid smell that scooped up the rank aroma of moist earth as it leapt from the ground.