rank
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7.1
- adjective
- /ræŋk/
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espeso
- In contrast, UConn has ascended to become the region's ranking State U in both athletics and academics.
Examples
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It's a really old sort of rank looking palette.
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The fields are rank, and God alone knows where my mother is...
Fiction book (1997) -
Then one hot day when the fields were rank.
Blog text (7) -
We were not big donors; we were not high-ranking, important people by any stretch of the imagination.
Blog text (11) -
Runty deer picking their way past, they were rank as weeds back in there.
Fiction book (1995) -
Then we've got the autumn leaf sprinkles and these were the sprinkles that hadn't gone rank and I'm washing out the jars for the ones that had.
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Neither of my two awards brought a cash prize with it—true of nearly all the awards in the field, which is also rank with volunteerism: writers are asked to contribute their time and pay their own expenses for all sorts of things that would be reimbursed and compensated in the poetry world by English department employers, if not otherwise.
Fiction book (1993) -
The garden was filled with rank vegetation, making it difficult to walk through.
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After the heavy rain, the grass grew rank in just a few days.
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Wildflowers sprang up in rank abundance along the untouched meadow.
Synonyms
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3.4
Covered with plants that grow out of control
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3.2
Land or soil that grows many crops
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1.0
An area covered with grass, like a field or lawn
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6.5
An area that is green with plants and grass
Covered with thick plants and small trees like a wild forest
Covered with plants such as grass or small bushes
Antonyms
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 Lush
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rank meaning very fertile or growing a lot comes from an old word for 'strong' or 'vigorous', so land that makes thick plant growth is called rank. Think of plants growing so fast they make a wild, heavy patch.