Rank
[ræŋk]
解释:
(noun.) a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another; 'the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen'.
(noun.) relative status; 'his salary was determined by his rank and seniority'.
(verb.) take precedence or surpass others in rank.
(verb.) take or have a position relative to others; 'This painting ranks among the best in the Western World'.
(adj.) growing profusely; 'rank jungle vegetation' .
(adj.) very fertile; producing profuse growth; 'rank earth' .
(adj.) very offensive in smell or taste; 'a rank cigar' .
安编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(superl.) Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
(superl.) Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.
(superl.) Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.
(superl.) Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.
(superl.) Strong to the taste.
(superl.) Inflamed with venereal appetite.
(adv.) Rankly; stoutly; violently.
(n. & v.) A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.
(n. & v.) A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).
(n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.
(n. & v.) An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.
(n. & v.) Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.
(n. & v.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.
(v. t.) To place abreast, or in a line.
(v. t.) To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.
(v. t.) To take rank of; to outrank.
(v. i.) To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.
(v. i.) To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.
录入:玛丽埃塔
同义词及近义词:
a. [1]. Luxuriant, vigorous, exuberant, over-abundant.[2]. Excessive, overmuch, extravagant, rampant, very great.[3]. Rancid, musty, fusty, fetid, offensive, FROWZY, strong-smelling, strong-scented.
n. [1]. Row (as of soldiers, reckoned from side to side), tier, range, FILE.[2]. Class, order, division, head, category.[3]. Degree, grade, quality, relative station.[4]. Dignity, nobility, noble class, aristocratic class.
v. a. [1]. Class, arrange, range.[2]. [Modern.] Outrank, take precedence of.
v. n. Be ranked, be classed, take rank, have rank.
编辑:鲁弗斯
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Luxuriant, exuberant, extreme, excessive, rampant
SYN:Row, line, tier, order, degree, grade, dignity
ANT:Disconnection, disorder, incontinuity, solution, intermission, hiatus,plebeianism, meanness, commonalty
手打:洛伊斯
解释:
n. a row or line esp. of soldiers standing side by side: class or order: grade or degree: station: high social position or standing.—v.t. to place in a line: to range in a particular class: to place methodically: to take rank over.—v.i. to be placed in a rank or class: to have a certain degree of distinction: to be admitted as a claim against the property of a bankrupt.—n. Rank′er one who arranges or disposes in ranks: an officer who has risen from the ranks.—Rank and file the whole body of common soldiers.—Take rank of to have the right to take a higher place than; Take rank with to take the same rank as; The ranks the order of common soldiers.
adj. growing high and luxuriantly: coarse from excessive growth: raised to a high degree: excessive: very fertile: strong-scented: strong-tasted: rancid: utter as rank nonsense: coarse: indecent: (Shak.) ruttish: (slang) eager: (law) excessive: (mech.) cutting deeply.—adv. (Spens.) rankly fiercely.—v.i. Rank′le to be inflamed: to fester: to be a source of disquietude or excitement: to rage.—v.t. to irritate.—adv. Rank′ly offensively: to an inordinate degree.—n. Rank′ness exuberant growth: (Shak.) insolence.—adjs. Rank′-rī′ding hard-riding; Rank′-scent′ed (Shak.) strong-scented: rancid.
塞西莉亚校对
娱乐性解释:
n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.
乔茜录入
例句:
- If the guests chose to partake of what was served, he saw no objection; but it was served for the maintenance of his rank. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I felt some hesitation in suggesting rank as high as the colonelcy of a regiment, feeling somewhat doubtful whether I would be equal to the position. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- A man of any rank may, without any reproach, abstain totally from tasting such liquors. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- By the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army; but he does not rank with him in the common estimation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Devils gathered their legions in his sight; their dim, discrowned, and tarnished armies passed rank and file before him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The portly gentleman, looking round to see that nobody of rank observed him, sat down; he muttered--Ah, really, well now, God bless my soul. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Among nations of hunters, such as the native tribes of North America, age is the sole foundation of rank and precedency. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- While the frictional appliance is still employed in medicine, it ranks with the flint axe and the tinder-box in industrial obsolescence. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- A brilliant liter ary man of the present day considers that places in the first ranks of literature are reserved for the doctrinally heterodox. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- By the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army; but he does not rank with him in the common estimation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Indeed throughout the Republic he allows the lower ranks to fade into the distance. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Millers were detailed from the ranks to run the mills along the line of the army. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- I am only a simple Norfolk squire, but there is not a man in England who ranks his family honour more highly than I do. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- The inferior ranks of people must, in that country, suffer patiently the usage which their superiors think proper to give them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Sherman ranked him as a brigadier-general. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Now look at the Galeopithecus or so-called flying lemur, which was formerly ranked among bats, but is now believed to belong to the Insectivora. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Even Ireland has a few animals, now generally regarded as varieties, but which have been ranked as species by some zoologists. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Hence the amount of difference is one very important criterion in settling whether two forms should be ranked as species or varieties. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- All of them ranked me in the old army, and Sherman and Buell did as brigadiers. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Then a soul which forgets cannot be ranked among genuine philosophic natures; we must insist that the philosopher should have a good memory? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The worst excuse a soldier can make for declining service is that he once ranked the commander he is ordered to report to. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Abelard, a man of splendid talents, and ranking as the first debater of his time, became timid, irresolute, and distrustful of his powers. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- To-day it stands a triumph of human ingenuity, ranking in importance with the rotary web-perfecting press, and is probably the most ingenious piece of practical mechanism in existence. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
编辑:桑德拉