SCRABBLE ® cheat


rank

Definitions


[raŋk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a position in the hierarchy of the armed forces
(e.g: an army officer of high rank)

- a single line of soldiers or police officers drawn up abreast
(e.g: they were drawn up outside their barracks in long ranks)

- the people belonging to or constituting a group or class
(e.g: the ranks of Britain's unemployed)

- the value or the order of the largest non-zero determinant of a given matrix


Phrases:
- break ranks
- close ranks
- keep rank
- pull rank
- rise through the ranks

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘row of things’): from Old French ranc, of Germanic origin; related to ring


[raŋk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- give (someone or something) a rank or place within a grading system
(e.g: students ranked the samples in order of preference)

- arrange in a row or rows
(e.g: the tents were ranked in orderly rows)


Phrases:
- break ranks
- close ranks
- keep rank
- pull rank
- rise through the ranks

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘row of things’): from Old French ranc, of Germanic origin; related to ring


[raŋk], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- (of vegetation) growing too thickly and coarsely
(e.g: clumps of rank grass)

- having a foul or offensive smell
(e.g: breathing rank air)

- (especially of something bad or deficient) complete and utter (used for emphasis)
(e.g: rank stupidity)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English ranc ‘proud, rebellious, sturdy’, also ‘fully grown’, of Germanic origin. An early sense ‘luxuriant’ gave rise to ‘too luxuriant’, whence the negative connotation of modern usage




definition by Oxford Dictionaries




The SCRABBLE ® trademark

SCRABBLE ® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game
are owned in the U.S.A. and Canada by Hasbro Inc. and throughout the rest of the world by
J.W. Spear and Sons, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. This site is for entertainment purposes
only and is not sponsored by or affiliated with Hasbro or Mattel Inc. in any way.