to rank
- verb
- /ræŋk/
- In the recent survey, the restaurant was ranked among the top five in the city for service.
- rank items
- rank skills
- rank a list
What do you think you rank in all those guys?
- What do you think you rank in all those guys?
- Where would you rank the top three beat makers?
- Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others.
- Think of where I rank in fortune amongst them.
- I want you to blind rank things about me.
- So let's start with let's rank them Premier League.
- I would I would rank myself second to last.
- It's the way you sort of have to rank yourself up.
- You will have to get fiercely good at rank ordering everything.
- What would you rank them, the four parks that you went to?
- I want you to rank the sway house for me.
- So shout out their names and let us know where they rank in your rankings.
Examples
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The marketing department will help rank the relative opportunities of various product families.
Academic text (2011) -
And even among suburban dermatologists, Leonard must rank in the bottom ten percent.
Fiction book (1994) -
Then why do I rank them in this way?
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I think you rank number one in the country.
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We derived a score from the first component that we used to rank individuals within family income groups.
Academic text (2011) -
In a 2009 survey, GEM ranked the United States first in the world in providing such opportunities.
Academic text (2011) -
At 13,898 feet, it ranks among the 100 highest peaks in Colorado.
Academic text (2011) -
Thus, performance evaluations that serve to rank people are deeply flawed.
Academic text (2011) -
So if you're ranked in the top 100, then you instantly get a spot, but everyone else has to play a sort of, uh, tournament before the tournament.
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It's phenom LeBron James against the number-one-ranked team in the country, Oak Hill.
Synonyms
To judge how good or valuable something is
To finish a race or competition in a particular position
To give a letter or number to show how good their work is
To put people or things in order by importance
Compounds
- Specialized
A method to measure the relationship between two ranked variables while keeping other variables the same
- Specialized
To measure how two sets of scores are related by comparing their ranks
- Specialized
A number that shows how closely two sets of ranked scores move together
- Specialized
A number that shows how similar the order of items is in two lists
How High
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rank as a verb comes from the noun for a row or position and simply means to put people or things into an order. So to rank the contestants is to place them in order by quality or importance.