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rankness

WordNet
A blue wall with falling acer leaves, with a text accompanying the 'high rank fan'.
A blue wall with falling acer leaves, with a text accompanying the 'high rank fan'.
  1. (n) rankness
    the attribute of having a strong offensive smell
  2. (n) rankness
    the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth "he praised the richness of the soil","weeds lovely in their rankness"
Illustrations
A high-ranking courtesan talks to a young servant playing with a ball in the long corridor of a brothel. The 'noisy cricket and the butterfly' in the title refer to the girl playing loudly with her ball and the beautiful courtesan in a kimono with a butterfly pattern.
Courtesan looking at kamuro playing ball
Woman is holding a man's belt. The woman is of the lowest rank of prostitutes, the night hawk (yotaka) who walked along the rivers in Edo at night with their sleeping mat. With two poems.
Woman is holding a man's belt. The woman is of the lowest rank of prostitutes, the night hawk (yotaka) who walked along the rivers in Edo at night with their sleeping mat. With two poems.
A group of shepherds ranks around Mary and the Christ Child. Two of them kneel. In the foreground a lying dog, in the background a hilly landscape with a settlement.
A group of shepherds ranks around Mary and the Christ Child. Two of them kneel. In the foreground a lying dog, in the background a hilly landscape with a settlement.
In a room, a few high-ranking people sit and stand around a table. Two men shake hands, which seems to confirm the intended marriage between Ferdinand VI and Maria Barbara of Portugal. On the right, a servant enters with a tray of filled glasses. At the bottom left a three-line text in Dutch with an explanation of the depiction and on the right a comparable explanation in Latin.
In a room, a few high-ranking people sit and stand around a table. Two men shake hands, which seems to confirm the intended marriage between Ferdinand VI and Maria Barbara of Portugal. On the right, a servant enters with a tray of filled glasses. At the bottom left a three-line text in Dutch with an explanation of the depiction and on the right a comparable explanation in Latin.
Arthur Axmann, Reichsjugendführer, and Van Geelkerken, leader of the Youth Storm, together with other high-ranking Germans and NSBers, on the doorstep of Oud-Wassenaar Castle. Left in long black coat WA Heerbanleider Meulenberg and right in light coat, Fritz Schmidt. Schmidt General Commissioner of Seyss-Inquart and Hauptdienstleiter of the NSDAP was killed on 27 June 1943.
Arthur Axmann, Reichsjugendführer, and Van Geelkerken, leader of the Youth Storm, together with other high-ranking Germans and NSBers, on the doorstep of Oud-Wassenaar Castle. Left in long black coat WA Heerbanleider Meulenberg and right in light coat, Fritz Schmidt. Schmidt General Commissioner of Seyss-Inquart and Hauptdienstleiter of the NSDAP was killed on 27 June 1943.
A high-ranking Wehrmacht soldier is standing in the dunes at Huis ter Duin in Noordwijk aan Zee. In the background houses and the tower of De Buurtkerk.
A high-ranking Wehrmacht soldier is standing in the dunes at Huis ter Duin in Noordwijk aan Zee. In the background houses and the tower of De Buurtkerk.
Four rectangular and five round rank ornaments with animals. From a series consisting of a title page and 9 pages.
Four rectangular and five round rank ornaments with animals. From a series consisting of a title page and 9 pages.
Men and women, including high-ranking persons such as kings and queen, look into the open tombs of historical persons of whom only skeletons remain. All react with horror at the sight of the remains of Alexander the Great, Helen or Solomon. Above a hand with banderole with the text Sic transit gloria mundi, below a banderole with the text Mors ultima linea rerum.
Men and women, including high-ranking persons such as kings and queen, look into the open tombs of historical persons of whom only skeletons remain. All react with horror at the sight of the remains of Alexander the Great, Helen or Solomon. Above a hand with banderole with the text Sic transit gloria mundi, below a banderole with the text Mors ultima linea rerum.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
In 1996, people in the United States sent and received 182,660,700,000 pieces of mail domestically. By way of comparison, Japan ranked second on this list with just 24,971,279,000.
  1. Rankness
    The condition or quality of being rank.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Japan ranks Number 3 in the world for coffee consumption.
  1. (n) rankness
    Physical strength; effective force; potency.
  2. (n) rankness
    Strength of kind, quality, or degree, in a disparaging sense; hence, extravagance; excess; grossness; repulsiveness: as, rankness of growth; the rankness of a poison, or of one's pride or pretensions.
  3. (n) rankness
    Insolence; presumption.
  4. (n) rankness
    Strength of growth; rapid or excessive increase; exuberance; extravagance; excess, as of plants, or of the wood of trees. Rankness is a condition often incident to fruit-trees in gardens and orchards, in consequence of which great shoots or feeders are given out with little or no bearing wood. Excessive richness of soil and a too copious supply of manure are generally the inducing causes.
  5. (n) rankness
    Excessive fertility; exuberant productiveness, as of soil.
  6. (n) rankness
    Offensive or noisome smell or taste; repulsiveness to the senses.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
The final episode of M*A*S*H ranks as the most watched television program of any kind in United States history. An estimated 50,150,000 people tuned in on February 28, 1983. That amounted to 60.2% of all households with a television. Second on the list was the “Who Shot J.R.” episode of Dallas.
  1. (n) Rankness
    exuberant growth:
  2. (n) Rankness
    (Shak.) insolence
Quotations
W. H. Auden
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
W. H. Auden
Marcus T. Cicero
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Marcus T. Cicero
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
H. L. Mencken
Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
H. L. Mencken
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte
John J. Ingalls
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
John J. Ingalls
Idioms

Close ranks - If members of an organisation close ranks, they show support for each other publicly, especially when being criticised. It is a military term- when soldiers close ranks, they stand closer together so that it is difficult to pass through them.

Pull rank - A person of higher position or in authority pulls rank, he or she exercises his/her authority, generally ending any discussion and ignoring other people's views.

Rank and file - The rank and file are the ordinary members of a company, organisation, etc, excluding the managers and directors.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary AS. rancness, pride

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. ranc, fruitful, rank; Ice. rakkr, bold, Dan. rank, lank, slender.

Usage in the news

Has received high rankings in the US News Media Group and Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" rankings report. blog.al.com

The Sporting News ranked all the coaches in the NFL from 1-32 and Cowboys boy wonder Jason Garrett ranked 23rd on the list. nbc56.com

The Hawkeyes , ranked No 27 in the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings, finished with a tournament-record score of 24-under 840 at Finkbine Golf Course. golfweek.com

But we got this classic recently in our AFC East inbox after ranking the Miami Dolphins second behind the New England Patriots in our division Power Rankings. espn.go.com

Hopping Kovach Grinnel Design Consultants State: Canada Rank 2012: 155 Rank 2011: 176. interiordesign.net

Rank in Internet Services and Retailing: 4 (Previous rank: N.A. money.cnn.com

7.25 Top 50 rank: 37** Rank in Soaps and Cosmetics*: 2. money.cnn.com

Country Rank Company Global 500 rank City Revenues ($ millions). money.cnn.com

The UCLA Bruins were 3-0, ranked in the top 20 and already had a signature win over a ranked Nebraska squad. espn.go.com

1 Alabama Crimson Tide, who are coming off a home win against a Top-20 opponent Mississippi State, have a tough test Saturday against another highly-ranked opponent in the fifth-ranked LSU Tigers at Tiger Stadium. espn.go.com

Maryland will play its first game of the season against a ranked opponent on Saturday when it travels to face interstate rival West Virginia, which is ranked No. nst.net

Pioneers Conf Rank CBK Rank. msn.foxsports.com

Bearkats Conf Rank CBK Rank. msn.foxsports.com

Scarlet Knights Conf Rank CBK Rank. msn.foxsports.com

Lumberjacks Conf Rank CBK Rank. msn.foxsports.com

Usage in scientific papers

Hk (S ) ≤ rank Hk (T ). (ii) In the constructible case, for (4.5.1) and for every 1 ≤ k ≤ m − 1, ψk and φk are isomorphisms, in particular rank Hk (S ) = rank Hk (T ).
Bounding Betti Numbers of Sets Definable in O-Minimal Structures Over the Reals

Simplify T using Algorithm 2.5. (2) Compute the first homology of T , and let r, t2 and t3 denote the rank, Z2 rank and Z3 rank respectively. (3) Create an input list L of triangulations to process, initial ly containing just T , and an output list O of prime summands, initial ly empty.
Computational topology with Regina: Algorithms, heuristics and implementations

However, if rank(A) = rank(B ) = 2 then rank(CAdA ◦Φ◦AdB ) ≥ 2, so AdA ◦ Φ ◦ AdB 6= id in this case as well.
Generation of Mapping Cones from Small Sets

Remark that the G-co-rank of H is inferior or equal to n, since if the co-rank is superior to n the first stage of the proof shows that we can construct a chain of G-free prime ideals of length strictly greater than n and whose G-co-rank is strictly decreasing.
Some properties of schemes in group theory and Top couples

Suppose that the G-rank of G/P0 is strictly inferior to n; this implies that there exists, i ≤ n such that co-rank(Pi) =co-rank(Pi+1).
Some properties of schemes in group theory and Top couples

Usage in literature

Did you remember to invite Doctor Rank? "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen

It is altogether likely that one who pierces the air like an eagle should bear messages between generals of the first rank. "The Forest of Swords" by Joseph A. Altsheler

Thus far the uniforms were all alike; but there were distinguishing insignia to indicate the rank of each. "Outward Bound" by Oliver Optic

Fiercely rained the bullets from rank to rank. "French and English" by Evelyn Everett-Green

In the war of the Revolution, Washington held the rank of General, and in 1798 the rank of Lieutenant-general. "Elements of Military Art and Science" by Henry Wager Halleck

They vary in form according to the rank of the nobleman. "The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition" by Anonymous

In the sixteenth century they ranked, as they still rank, among the proudest nobles of the Eternal City. "Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2" by John Addington Symonds

And that was the Boston massacre about which you have heard so much that it would almost seem to rank with that of St. Bartholomew. "American Men of Action" by Burton E. Stevenson

The news spread rapidly from rank to rank, carrying alarm wherever it came. "Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15)" by Charles Morris

The ranks of the victors were broken up by private dissensions. "The History of England" by T.F. Tout

Usage in poetry
And many a bearded Saracen
Went down, both horse and man;
For through their ranks we rode like corn,
So furiously we ran!
"The Heart Of The Bruce" by William Edmondstoune Aytoun Author object (700)
Yet, in thy history I see
Full many a great soul's lot;
Who joins that martyr-army's ranks,
That the world knoweth not; —
"On A Picture Of Harvey Birch" by Anne C Lynch
"He forgets his rank so princely,
To his grievous harm and loss;
A trap for his youth so tender
Is laid by the damsel Fos."
"The Prince Of Anhalt Dessau" by Nora Pembroke
None but he who did create us
Could redeem from sin and hell;
None but he could reinstate us
In the rank from which we fell.
"A Christmas Hymn" by Hannah More Author object (271)
For lo, when through the vapours dank,
Morn shone on Ettrick fair,
A corpse amid the alders rank,
The Palmer welter'd there.
"The Palmer" by Sir Walter Scott Author object (622)
Your serried ranks have never quailed
Before the battle-shock,
Whose maddest fury beats and breaks
Like foam against the rock.
"Beechenbrook - VII" by Margaret Junkin Preston Author object (460)