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Ranked   /ræŋkt/   Listen
verb
Rank  v. t.  (past & past part. ranked; pres. part. ranking)  
1.
To place abreast, or in a line.
2.
To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify. "Ranking all things under general and special heads." "Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers." "Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft."
3.
To take rank of; to outrank. (U.S.)


Rank  v. i.  
1.
To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division. "Let that one article rank with the rest."
2.
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.





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"Ranked" Quotes from Famous Books



... a moment. Then Neith designed them places with her arrow point; and they drew into ranks, like dark clouds laid level at morning. Then Neith pointed with her arrow to the north, and to the south, and to the east, and to the west, and the flying motes of earth drew asunder into four great ranked crowds; and stood, one in the north, and one in the south, and one in the east, and one in the west—one against another. Then Neith spread her wings wide for an instant, and closed them with a sound like the sound of a ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin
... Germany coming after the murder of Edith Cavell created intense indignation throughout the world. It ranked with the poison gas at Ypres, the Lusitania, the Belgian atrocities, the killing of Edith Cavell and the unrestricted submarine sinkings, as a factor in arousing the democratic peoples of the world to ...
— History of the World War - An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War • Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish
... and he put him about top. Voss, he thought, was the only Boche that could compare with him, for he hadn't made up his mind about Lensch. The Frenchman Guynemer he ranked high, but in a different way. I remember he had no respect for Richthofen ...
— Mr. Standfast • John Buchan
... disordered state of the stomach, of which a vomiting of bile may be one symptom, is also to be ranked among the occasional ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, - Issue 268, August 11, 1827 • Various
... mind, ranked next in importance and interest to this at the dinner was that which Mr. Gladstone delivered on the following day to the mass meeting of Leeds working men. Fully thirty thousand persons attended this meeting, which, like the dinner, took place in a temporary building. It was crowded to ...
— Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 • Stuart J. Reid, ed.


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