Rank vs. Tier
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;
Tiernoun
One who ties (knots, etc).
Tiernoun
Something that ties.
Tiernoun
(archaic) A child's apron.
Tiernoun
A layer or rank, especially of seats or a wedding cake.
Tierverb
(transitive) To arrange in layers.
Tierverb
(transitive) To cascade in an overlapping sequence.
Tierverb
To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.
Tiernoun
One who, or that which, ties.
Tiernoun
A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore.
Tiernoun
A row or rank, especially one of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another; as, a tier of seats in a theater.
Tiernoun
a relative position or degree of value in a graded group;
Tiernoun
any one of two or more competitors who tie one another
Tiernoun
a worker who ties something
Tiernoun
something that is used for tying;
Tiernoun
one of two or more layers one atop another;
