16 example sentences using rank.
Rank used in a sentence
Rank in a sentence as a noun
These pages rank at the top of the site: search because they have a lot of backlinks.
No threat is worth the cost of what they do. I hope everyone from the rank and file up to Alexander feel like complete ****.
Based on their Alexa rank, I suspect Amazon makes quite a money on these customer segments.
If it falls in rank, it will be purely because of user flags, and if that changes for any reason, I'll edit this comment.
Well, I can't say everyone in that company is **** because there is also a rank in any organization.
But stack-ranking seems like a reasonable one-time way to cut deadwood in a very large company.
Rank in a sentence as a verb
On the other side of the coin, if someone searches for [X rap genius] whilst they are under penalty its fair that they do not rank for that either.
Sure the garbage smells bad, but it's mostly just a matter of learning not to keep inhaling after you catch a whiff of something rank on the breeze.
The stack rank is the _reason_ there's so much dead wood: managers have to keep mediocre performers on the payroll so that star performers don't get bad reviews and leave.
Soldiers live and function in what is essentially a socialist culture with rigid, strictly enforced rank and class structure.
It is rank and deep-seated sexism, and insitutionalized assault.
It's traditional and tribal, and looking off toward the horizon and going away for fancy schooling just doesn't rank highly on most peoples' priorities.
Rank in a sentence as an adjective
The first is that in general, type inference for higher-rank polymorphism is undecidable.
While I generally agree with you that stack-ranking is a terrible idea for software companies[1], my guess is that the goal here is "lay off a bunch of low performers who were hired over the last 10 years".
Higher-rank types also have some limited support in OCaml and Haskell.> How is let-polymorphism implemented?
I'll skip over the whole history but just say this: if decisions had been made on merit rather than rank, Google+ Games could have been something, and if it had, Google+ would have become an actual contender in the social space.
Rank definitions
a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another; "the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen"
relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority"
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"
position in a social hierarchy; "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are"
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"
See also: membership
take or have a position relative to others; "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World"
assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
take precedence or surpass others in rank
See also: outrank
very fertile; producing profuse growth; "rank earth"
very offensive in smell or taste; "a rank cigar"
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"
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"
See also: absolute downright right-down
growing profusely; "rank jungle vegetation"