Dank vs. Rank — What's the Difference?

Disagreeably damp or humid

A relative position in a society.

Dark, damp and humid.

An official position or grade

Moist and sticky, (by extension) highly potent.

A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.

Great, awesome.

High or eminent station or position

Moisture; humidity; water.

A row, line, series, or range.

(slang) Strong, high-quality cannabis.

A line of soldiers, vehicles, or equipment standing side by side in close order.

(historical) A small silver coin formerly used in Persia.

Ranks The armed forces.

To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc.

Ranks Personnel, especially enlisted military personnel.

Damp; moist; humid; wet.

Ranks A body of people classed together; numbers

Moisture; humidity; water.

(Games) Any of the rows of squares running crosswise to the files on a playing board in chess or checkers.

A small silver coin current in Persia.

To place in a row or rows.

Unpleasantly cool and humid;

To give a particular order or position to; classify.

To outrank or take precedence over.

To hold a particular rank

To form or stand in a row or rows.

To complain.

To engage in carping criticism. Often used with on

Growing profusely or with excessive vigor

Yielding a profuse, often excessive crop; highly fertile

Strong and offensive in odor or flavor

Absolute; complete

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

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

Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.

Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.

Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.

Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.

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

(informal) Gross, disgusting.

(obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

(obsolete) lustful; lascivious

(obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

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

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

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

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

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

(typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.

A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.

(taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.

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

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

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

(mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.

To place abreast, or in a line.

To have a ranking.

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

(US) To take rank of; to outrank.

Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.

Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.

Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.

Strong to the taste.

Inflamed with venereal appetite.

Rankly; stoutly; violently.

A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.

A line of soldiers ranged side by side; - opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).

Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.

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.

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.

Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.

To place abreast, or in a line.

To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.

To take rank of; to outrank.

To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.

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.

A row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another;

Relative status;

The ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army);

Position in a social hierarchy;

The body of members of an organization or group;

Take or have a position relative to others;

Assign a rank or rating to;

Take precedence or surpass others in rank

Very fertile; producing profuse growth;

Very offensive in smell or taste;

Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible;

Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers;

Growing profusely;