Rank

Rank and file
a -	(Mil.) The whole body of common soldiers, including also corporals. In a more extended sense, it includes sergeants also, excepting the noncommissioned staff.
b -	See under 1st File.

The ranks
the order or grade of common soldiers; as, to reduce a noncommissioned officer to the ranks.

To fill the ranks
to supply the whole number, or a competent number.

To take rank of
to have precedence over, or to have the right of taking a higher place than.

v. t.

To place abreast, or in a line.

[imp. & p. p. Ranked (răņkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Ranking.]

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

Ranking all things under general and special heads.

- I. Watts.

Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.

- Broome.

Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft.

- Dr. H. More.

To take rank of; to outrank.

v. i.

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

Let that one article rank with the rest.

- Shak.

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.

Noun	1.	rank - a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another; "the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen"
	2.	rank - relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"
	3.	rank - the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army); "the strike was supported by the union rank and file"; "he rose from the ranks to become a colonel" Synonyms: rank and file
	4.	rank - position in a social hierarchy; "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are" Synonyms: social rank, social station, social status
	5.	rank - the body of members of an organization or group; "they polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed" Synonyms: membership
Verb	1.	rank - take or have a position relative to others; "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World"
	2.	rank - assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide" Synonyms: grade, rate, place, range, order
	3.	rank - take precedence or surpass others in rank Synonyms: outrank
Adj.	1.	rank - very fertile; producing profuse growth; "rank earth"
	2.	rank - very offensive in smell or taste; "a rank cigar"
	3.	rank - conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" Synonyms: egregious, flagrant, glaring, crying, gross
	4.	rank - complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity" Synonyms: out-and-out, right-down, sheer, absolute, downright
	5.	rank - growing profusely; "rank jungle vegetation"

RANK. The order or place in which certain officers are placed in the army and navy, in relation to others, is called their rank.
2. It is a maxim, that officers of, an inferior rank are bound to obey all the lawful commands of their superiors, and are justified for such obedience.

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