Rank vs. Position — What's the Difference?

A relative position in a society.

A place or location.

An official position or grade

The right or appropriate place

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

A strategic area occupied by members of a force

High or eminent station or position

The way in which something is placed

A row, line, series, or range.

The arrangement of body parts; posture

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

In ballet, any of the five arrangements of the arms and feet in which the legs are turned out from the pelvis.

Ranks The armed forces.

An advantageous place or location

Ranks Personnel, especially enlisted military personnel.

A situation as it relates to the surrounding circumstances

Ranks A body of people classed together; numbers

A point of view or attitude on a certain question

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

Social standing or status; rank.

To place in a row or rows.

A post of employment; a job.

To give a particular order or position to; classify.

(Sports) The area for which a particular player is responsible.

To outrank or take precedence over.

The arrangement of the pieces or cards at any particular time in a game such as chess, checkers, or bridge.

To hold a particular rank

The act or process of positing.

To form or stand in a row or rows.

A principle or proposition posited.

To complain.

A commitment to buy or sell a given amount of securities or commodities.

To engage in carping criticism. Often used with on

The amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.

Growing profusely or with excessive vigor

The ownership status of a person's or institution's investments.

Yielding a profuse, often excessive crop; highly fertile

To put in place or position.

Strong and offensive in odor or flavor

To determine the position of; locate.

Absolute; complete

A place or location.

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

A post of employment; a job.

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

A status or rank.

Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.

An opinion, stand, or stance.

Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.

A posture.

Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.

(figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.

Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.

(team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.

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

(finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.

(informal) Gross, disgusting.

(finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.

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

(arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.

(obsolete) lustful; lascivious

(chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.

(obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

(poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.

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

To put into place.

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

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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

The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.

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

Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.

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

Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.

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

A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; - called also the rule of trial and error.

A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.

To indicate the position of; to place.

(taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.

The particular portion of space occupied by a physical object;

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

A point occupied by troops for tactical reasons

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

A way of regarding situations or topics etc.;

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

Position or arrangement of the body and its limbs;

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

The relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society;

To place abreast, or in a line.

A job in an organization;

To have a ranking.

The spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated;

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

The appropriate or customary location;

(US) To take rank of; to outrank.

(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player;

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

The act of putting something in a certain place or location

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

A condition or position in which you find yourself;

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

An item on a list or in a sequence;

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

A rationalized mental attitude

Strong to the taste.

An opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute;

Inflamed with venereal appetite.

The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another;

Rankly; stoutly; violently.

The act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom

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

Cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation

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

Put into a certain place or abstract location;

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;