class vs rank

class

noun
  • The division of society into classes. 

  • One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader. 

  • A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher. 

  • A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank. 

  • A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution. 

  • A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class. 

  • A collection of sets definable by a shared property. 

  • A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes. 

  • Best of its kind. 

  • A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc. 

  • Admirable behavior; elegance. 

  • A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation. 

  • A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft. 

  • A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class. 

  • A series of lessons covering a single subject. 

adj
  • great; fabulous 

verb
  • To assign to a class; to classify. 

  • To be grouped or classed. 

  • To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes. 

rank

noun
  • The level of one's position in a class-based society. 

  • A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military. 

  • One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number). 

  • The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix. 

  • The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D). 

  • The size of any basis of a given matroid. 

  • One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality. 

  • The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor. 

  • In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal. 

  • A level in a scientific taxonomy system. 

  • A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation. 

  • A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers. 

adj
  • Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross. 

  • Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence). 

  • Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome. 

  • Having a very strong and bad taste or odor. 

  • Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile. 

  • Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric. 

  • Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things). 

  • Gross, disgusting. 

verb
  • To have a ranking. 

  • To place abreast, or in a line. 

  • To take rank of; to outrank. 

  • To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify. 

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