RANK

I. adjective see: right Date: 13th century luxuriantly or excessively vigorous in growth, offensively gross or coarse ; foul , grown too large, 4. shockingly conspicuous , outright , lustful , ruttish , offensive in odor or flavor, putrid , festering, high in amount or degree ; fraught , see: malodorous ~ly adverb ~ness noun II. noun see: ring Date: 14th century 1. row , series , a row of people, c. a line of soldiers ranged side by side in close order, armed forces , the body of enlisted personnel, any of the rows of squares that extend across a chessboard perpendicular to the files, stand 6, 2. relative standing or position, a degree or position of dignity, eminence, or excellence ; distinction , high social position , a grade of official standing in a hierarchy, an orderly arrangement ; formation , an aggregate of individuals classed together, the order according to some statistical characteristic (as the score on a test), any of a series of classes of coal based on increasing alteration of the parent vegetable matter, increasing carbon content, and increasing fuel value, the number of linearly independent rows or columns in a matrix, III. verb Date: 1573 transitive verb to arrange in lines or in a regular formation, to determine the relative position of ; rate , to take precedence of, intransitive verb to form or move in ~s, to take or have a position in relation to others