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to rank

to rank

381 2.4
To put someone or something in an order by importance
  • verb
  • /ræŋk/
translation icon : clasificar
  • 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?

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Examples

  • 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?

  • I think you rank number one in the country.

  • 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.

  • It's phenom LeBron James against the number-one-ranked team in the country, Oak Hill.

Synonyms

to rate
vsto rank
292 2.7

To judge how good or valuable something is

places items by position in an ordered list rather than giving a value
to place
vsto rank
139 3.8

To finish a race or competition in a particular position

refers to assigning or having a position, not only a competition result
to grade
vsto rank
95 2.3

To give a letter or number to show how good their work is

assigns a position in a list rather than only providing a score
to hierarchize
vsto rank
1 7.7

To put people or things in order by importance

places items in a list or hierarchy by quality, importance, or achievement

Compounds

34 4.3

Ordinary members of a group who are not leaders

6 3.9

A position with more authority and status than others in a group

A position in the armed forces that shows how much authority someone has

1 3.5

A position lower than others in a group or at work

1 3.9

A list of people or things arranged from most to least important

1 2.3

A place where taxis wait to pick up passengers

1 3.8

A person's position in society based on wealth, family, or job

flag rank
  • Specialized
8.1

A senior military title that officers like admirals or generals hold

A badge worn on a uniform that shows a person's military rank

A method to measure the relationship between two ranked variables while keeping other variables the same

8.5

A number that shows how well two rankings agree

9.6

To measure how two sets of scores are related by comparing their ranks

A number that shows how closely two sets of ranked scores move together

8.8

A number that shows how similar two ordered lists are

A number that shows how similar the order of items is in two lists

Having a very strong, unpleasant smell like rotten food

How High

top
1.0
to promote
182 2.9
to rank
381 2.4

Surface Forms

rank infinitive
ranked past
ranked past participle
ranking present participle
ranks third person singular

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.