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"].
(chess) one of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard [the corresponding term for a vertical line is "file"].
(music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality
The level of one's position in a class-based society
(chess) one of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those which run from letter to letter). The analog vertical lines are the files.
Ranking all things under general and special heads.
Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.
He rose up through the ranks of the company from mailroom clerk to CEO.
Private First Class (PFC) is the lowest rank in the Marines.
The fancy hotel was of the first rank.
Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.
Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs[...].
The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.
rank treason; rank nonsense
The seely man seeing him ryde so rancke, / And ayme at him, fell flat to ground for feare [...].
Chelsea remain rank outsiders to retain their crown and they still lie 12 points adrift of United, but Ancelotti will regard this as a performance that supports his insistence that they can still have a say when the major prizes are handed out this season.
I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith.
Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they feed.
Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when d’you last wash ’em?
rank land
The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple [...]
The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.