Rapider

Definition

rank 1 /ræŋk/ n ၁။ [C, U] အဆင့္အတန္း။ အဆင့္။ a painter of the first/ top rank (ie one of the very best) ❍ people of (high) rank ❍ Britain is no longer in the front rank of European powers. See also RANKING ၂။ [C, U] ရာထူး။ အဆင့္။ be promoted to the rank of captain ❍ officers of high rank ❍ military ranks ❍ The unit consisted of 5 officers and 40 other ranks (ie soldiers who were not officers). ၃။ (က) [C] တန္းစီထားေသာ တပ္၊ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕ဝင္မ်ား။ ranks of marching infantry ❍ keep/ break ranks (ie remain/ fail to remain in line). (ခ) the ranks [pl] အရာရိွ မဟုတ္သူမ်ား။ စစ္သည္။ join/ serve in the ranks ❍ rise from the ranks (ie be made an officer after serving as an ordinary soldier). (ဂ) လူတန္းစား။ အလႊာ။ ( fig ) join the ranks of the unemployed (ie become unemployed). ၄။ [C] အတန္း။ fir trees in serried ranks ❍ Take the taxi at the head of the rank (ie the first in the line). See also TAXI RANK v (not used in the continuous tenses) ၁။ အဆင့္အတန္း သတ္မွတ္သည္။ အရာထားသည္။ I rank her achievement very highly. ❍ I rank her among/ alongside the country's best writers. ❍ Only four players are ranked above him. ၂။ (တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ) အဆင့္အတန္းရိွသည္။ Her work ranks with the best of the decade. ❍ He currently ranks second in the world. ❍ ( esp US ) You just don't rank! See also HIGH-RANKING ❏ break ranks [ IDM ] ခြဲထြက္သည္။ ေက်ာခိုင္းသည္။ လက္တြဲျဖဳတ္သည္။ Large numbers of MPs felt compelled to break ranks over the issue. ❏ the rank and file n [Gp] ၁။ အရာရိွမဟုတ္သူ စစ္သည္မ်ား။ ၂။ ေအာက္ေျခထု။ the rank and file of the workforce ❍ rank-and-file workers/ members/ supporters. ❏ ranking officer n [sing] ( US ) (အရာရိွတစ္စုတြင္) ရာထူးအဆင့္အႀကီးဆံုး အရာရိွ။ rank 2 /ræŋk/ adj ၁။ အုန္ေအာက္ေသာ။ the rank smell of rotting vegetation. ၂။ ( esp derog ) သက္သက္။ (ေရွး)စေတ။ စစ္စစ္။ a rank beginner ❍ rank insolence/ stupidity/ nonsense ❍ The winning horse was a rank outsider. ၃။ ထူပိန္းေနေအာင္ ေပါက္ေသာ။ rank grass.

Examples

1. Her rank when she retired was captain.
2. [rank of] : He joined in 1998
3. and quickly rose to the rank of inspector.
4. [senior/junior rank] : Let me speak to an officer of more senior rank.
5. [rank of] : She had reached the rank of junior minister by the time she was 30.
6. In the past
7. dress
8. speech
9. and table manners indicated social rank.
10. People of high rank
11. They marched in ranks of five.
12. Rows of women seated at tidy ranks of computers
13. This reversal of policy touched off a violent dispute within the party ranks.
14. [join the ranks (of something)] : Another Republican senator joins the ranks of the presidential hopefuls.
15. [swell the ranks] : The organization is looking for young people to swell their ranks.
16. [be reduced to the ranks] : At the court-martial Captain Bomford was reduced to the ranks.