Rank vs. Category

Rankadjective

Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).

Rankadjective

Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.

Rankadjective

Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.

Rankadjective

Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.

Rankadjective

Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.

Rankadjective

Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.

Rankadjective

Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).

Rankadjective

(informal) Gross, disgusting.

Rankadjective

(obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

Rankadjective

(obsolete) Inflamed with venereal appetite; ruttish.

Rankadverb

(obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

Ranknoun

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"].

Ranknoun

(music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.

Ranknoun

One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality

Ranknoun

The level of one's position in a class-based society

Ranknoun

a hierarchical level in an organization such as the military

Ranknoun

(taxonomy) a level in a scientific taxonomy system

Ranknoun

(linear algebra) Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.

Ranknoun

(mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.

Ranknoun

(algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).

Ranknoun

(mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.

Ranknoun

(chess) one of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number). The analog vertical lines are the files.

Ranknoun

(typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation.

Rankverb

To place abreast, or in a line.

Rankverb

To have a ranking.

Rankverb

To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.

Rankverb

(US) To take rank of; to outrank.

Rankadjective

Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

Rankadjective

Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.

Rankadjective

Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.

Rankadjective

Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.

Rankadjective

Strong to the taste.

Rankadjective

Inflamed with venereal appetite.

Rankadverb

Rankly; stoutly; violently.

Ranknoun

A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.

Ranknoun

A line of soldiers ranged side by side; - opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).

Ranknoun

Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.

Ranknoun

An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.

Ranknoun

Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.

Ranknoun

Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.

Rankverb

To place abreast, or in a line.

Rankverb

To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.

Rankverb

To take rank of; to outrank.

Rankverb

To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.

Rankverb

To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.

Ranknoun

a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another;

Ranknoun

relative status;

Ranknoun

the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army);

Ranknoun

position in a social hierarchy;

Ranknoun

the body of members of an organization or group;

Rankverb

take or have a position relative to others;

Rankverb

assign a rank or rating to;

Rankverb

take precedence or surpass others in rank

Rankadjective

very fertile; producing profuse growth;

Rankadjective

very offensive in smell or taste;

Rankadjective

conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible;

Rankadjective

complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers;

Rankadjective

growing profusely;

Categorynoun

A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.

Categorynoun

(mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.

Categorynoun

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.

Categorynoun

Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.

Categorynoun

a collection of things sharing a common attribute;

Categorynoun

a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme

Categorynoun

a class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics

Categorynoun

each of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed.

Categorynoun

each of the a priori conceptions applied by the mind to sense impressions.