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distribute: The books are ranged according to their
subject-matter. 8 cover, traverse, roam, rove, travel over or
across, go or pass over, drift, migrate, wander, move, extend:
The wildebeest ranges far and wide over vast tracts of grazing
land in Africa.
rank° n. 1 status, standing, position, place, level, stratum, class,
caste, circumstances, echelon, grade: It is virtually
impossible to determine rank simply by looking at a person. 2
weight, authority, power, superiority, seniority, ascendancy,
priority, influence, eminence: Caldwell uses the privilege of
rank to cover up some of his more questionable transactions. 3
nobility, title, high birth, aristocracy, dignity, prestige,
(blue) blood; peerage: Gentlemen of rank should behave with
honour, my boy. 4 line, row, column, queue, series, formation;
sequence: We gazed on the serried ranks of warriors, golden
shields glistening in the sun. 5 ranks. soldiers, workers,
staff, employees: Smithers rose from the ranks to become chief
executive officer.
--v. 6 grade, rate, classify, class, categorize; dispose,
organize, order, sort, assort, arrange, array, align, range,
graduate: He was ranked among the best in the school. The
applicants are ranked according to their test scores. 7 rate,
count, stand, have standing or value or prestige, be important
or distinguished: To Janet, character ranks far above wealth.
Phil is so mean that Scrooge would rank high on a list of
charitable men in comparison with him.
ranký adj. 1 lush, luxuriant, abundant, flourishing, profuse,
prolific, dense, superabundant, exuberant, fertile, productive,
fructuous: The expedition could hardly make its way through the
rank undergrowth of th jungle. 2 corrupt, foul, low, base,
gross; downright, utter, sheer, absolute, complete, out-and-out,
blatant, flagrant, unalloyed, unmitigated, undiluted: I cannot
understand the rank treachery of the man after all that we have
done for him. I ventured my opinion, even though a rank
outsider. 3 offensive, loathsome, disgusting, gross, foul,
corrupt, indecent, shocking, immodest, indecorous, shameless,
risqu‚, lurid, off colour, outrageous, blue, nasty, vulgar,
vile, dirty, filthy, smutty, scatological, pornographic,
obscene: Those bigots always resort to the rank vocabulary of
malice and hate. In a secret cupboard was a collection of the