Rate vs. Rank — What's the Difference?

A quantity measured with respect to another measured quantity

A relative position in a society.

A measure of a part with respect to a whole; a proportion

An official position or grade

The cost per unit of a commodity or service

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

A charge or payment calculated in relation to a particular sum or quantity

High or eminent station or position

Level of quality.

A row, line, series, or range.

Often rates Chiefly British A locally assessed property tax.

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

To place in a particular class, rank, or grade

Ranks The armed forces.

To specify the performance limits of, especially according to a standard scale

Ranks Personnel, especially enlisted military personnel.

To regard or consider as having a certain value

Ranks A body of people classed together; numbers

Chiefly British To value for purposes of taxation.

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

To set a rate for (goods to be shipped).

To place in a row or rows.

(Informal) To merit or deserve

To give a particular order or position to; classify.

To be ranked in a particular class

To outrank or take precedence over.

(Informal) To have status, importance, or influence

To hold a particular rank

To berate.

To form or stand in a row or rows.

To express reproof.

To complain.

(obsolete) The worth of something; value.

To engage in carping criticism. Often used with on

The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.

Growing profusely or with excessive vigor

Speed.

Yielding a profuse, often excessive crop; highly fertile

The relative speed of change or progress.

Strong and offensive in odor or flavor

The price of (an individual) thing; cost.

Absolute; complete

A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.

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

A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.

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

Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.

Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.

(nautical) A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.

Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.

(obsolete) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.

Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.

(obsolete) Order; arrangement.

Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.

(obsolete) Ratification; approval.

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

(horology) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.

(informal) Gross, disgusting.

(transitive) To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.

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

(transitive) To evaluate or estimate the value of.

(obsolete) lustful; lascivious

(transitive) To consider or regard.

(obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

(transitive) To deserve; to be worth.

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

(transitive) To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.

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

To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.

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

To like; to think highly of.

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

(intransitive) To have position (in a certain class).

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

(intransitive) To have value or standing.

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

(transitive) To ratify.

A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.

To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.

(taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.

(transitive) To berate, scold.

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

To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently; to berate.

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

To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.

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

To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.

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

To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.

To place abreast, or in a line.

To ratify.

To have a ranking.

To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.

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

To make an estimate.

(US) To take rank of; to outrank.

Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.

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

That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.

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

Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.

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

A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.

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

Order; arrangement.

Strong to the taste.

Ratification; approval.

Inflamed with venereal appetite.

The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.

Rankly; stoutly; violently.

The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.

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

Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis;

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

A magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit;

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

The relative speed of progress or change;

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.

Assign a rank or rating to;

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.

Be worthy of or have a certain rating;

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

Estimate the value of;

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;