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Status vs. Rank — What's the Difference?

Status vs. Rank — What's the Difference?

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Status

Relative social or professional position; standing
An improvement in the status of women

Rank

A relative position in a society.

Status

The situation at a particular time during a process
An update on the status of the bill

Rank

An official position or grade
The rank of sergeant.

Status

Position relative to that of others; standing
Her status is that of a guest.
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Rank

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

Status

High standing; prestige
A position of status in the community.

Rank

High or eminent station or position
Persons of rank.

Status

(Law) The legal character or condition of a person or thing
The status of a minor.

Rank

A row, line, series, or range.

Status

The state of affairs; the situation
What is the status of the negotiations?.

Rank

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

Status

A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.

Rank

Ranks The armed forces.

Status

Or high standing.

Rank

Ranks Personnel, especially enlisted military personnel.

Status

A situation or state of affairs.
What's the status of the investigation?
New York is known for its status as a financial center.

Rank

Ranks A body of people classed together; numbers
Joined the ranks of the unemployed.

Status

(legal) The legal condition of a person or thing.

Rank

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

Status

The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act.
He is a status Indian.

Rank

To place in a row or rows.

Status

(social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.
I'm just about to update my status to "busy".

Rank

To give a particular order or position to; classify.

Status

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Rank

To outrank or take precedence over.

Status

State; condition; position of affairs.

Rank

To hold a particular rank
Ranked first in the class.

Status

The relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society;
He had the status of a minor
The novel attained the status of a classic
Atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life

Rank

To form or stand in a row or rows.

Status

A state at a particular time;
A condition (or state) of disrepair
The current status of the arms negotiations

Rank

To complain.

Rank

To engage in carping criticism. Often used with on
Stop ranking on me all the time.

Rank

Growing profusely or with excessive vigor
Rank vegetation.

Rank

Yielding a profuse, often excessive crop; highly fertile
Rank earth.

Rank

Strong and offensive in odor or flavor
Rank gym clothes.

Rank

Absolute; complete
A rank amateur.
Rank treachery.

Rank

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

Rank

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

Rank

Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.

Rank

Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
Rank land

Rank

Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.

Rank

Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?

Rank

Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith.

Rank

(informal) Gross, disgusting.

Rank

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

Rank

(obsolete) lustful; lascivious

Rank

(obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

Rank

A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.

Rank

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

Rank

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

Rank

One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality.
Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.
The fancy hotel was of the first rank.

Rank

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

Rank

(typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
A membership drawn from the ranks of wealthy European businessmen

Rank

A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
Private First Class (PFC) is the second-lowest rank in the Marines.
He rose up through the ranks of the company, from mailroom clerk to CEO.

Rank

(taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.

Rank

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

Rank

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

Rank

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

Rank

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

Rank

To place abreast, or in a line.

Rank

To have a ranking.
Their defense ranked third in the league.

Rank

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

Rank

(US) To take rank of; to outrank.

Rank

Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

Rank

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

Rank

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

Rank

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

Rank

Strong to the taste.

Rank

Inflamed with venereal appetite.

Rank

Rankly; stoutly; violently.
That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell.

Rank

A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.
Many a mountain nighRising in lofty ranks, and loftier still.

Rank

A line of soldiers ranged side by side; - opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).
Fierce, fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,In ranks and squadrons and right form of war.

Rank

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

Rank

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.

Rank

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.
These all are virtues of a meaner rank.

Rank

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

Rank

To place abreast, or in a line.

Rank

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.

Rank

To take rank of; to outrank.

Rank

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.

Rank

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.

Rank

A row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another;
The entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen

Rank

Relative status;
His salary was determined by his rank and seniority

Rank

The ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army);
The strike was supported by the union rank and file
He rose from the ranks to become a colonel

Rank

Position in a social hierarchy;
The British are more aware of social status than Americans are

Rank

The body of members of an organization or group;
They polled their membership
They found dissension in their own ranks
He joined the ranks of the unemployed

Rank

Take or have a position relative to others;
This painting ranks among the best in the Western World

Rank

Assign a rank or rating to;
How would you rank these students?
The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide

Rank

Take precedence or surpass others in rank

Rank

Very fertile; producing profuse growth;
Rank earth

Rank

Very offensive in smell or taste;
A rank cigar

Rank

Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible;
A crying shame
An egregious lie
Flagrant violation of human rights
A glaring error
Gross ineptitude
Gross injustice
Rank treachery

Rank

Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers;
Absolute freedom
An absolute dimwit
A downright lie
Out-and-out mayhem
An out-and-out lie
A rank outsider
Many right-down vices
Got the job through sheer persistence
Sheer stupidity

Rank

Growing profusely;
Rank jungle vegetation

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