Phrase Hound found 30 phrases and 14 compound words that contain ranks. The most common are listed below. Open ranks in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 30
- break ranksTo march or charge out of the designated order in a military unit.
- close ranksTo close the spacing between lines (ranks) of troops, as they are deployed across a battlefield, thereby decreasing the depth of the formation as it faces the enemy side.
- breaking rankspresent participle and gerund of break ranks
- military ranksplural of military rank: A grade conferred upon officers in armed forces, police and intelligence agencies, typically denoted by particular insignia affixed to their uniforms.
- other ranksplural of other rank: A soldier who is not a commissioned officer.
- rise through the ranksTo gradually advance in an organization to positions of more importance after having served in subordinate ones.
- swell the ranksTo add significant numbers of members (to a group).
- air ranksplural of air rank: The rank of air commodore or higher, in the air force.
- back ranksplural of back rank: The row on the board on which the pieces (e.g. king, queen) start.
- breaks ranksthird-person singular simple present indicative of break ranks: To march or charge out of the designated order in a military unit.
- broke rankssimple past of break ranks
- broken rankspast participle of break ranks: To march or charge out of the designated order in a military unit.
- cab ranksplural of cab rank: An area reserved for taxi cabs to await customers.
- circuit ranksplural of circuit rank: The number of independent cycles in a graph
- coal ranksplural of coal rank: The measure or degree of the progressive coalification (organic metamorphism) of a coal, often expressed in terms of vitrinite reflectance.
- de-ranksthird-person singular simple present indicative of de-rank: To inflect into a form that cannot be used in independent declarative clauses.
- flag ranksplural of flag rank: The rank of a flag officer.
- S ranksplural of S rank: An exceptional rank given on an objective, mission, or level in a game. Typically the highest achievable such rank.
- stack ranksplural of stack rank: A ranking of employees conducted in order to identify and oust the lowest performers in a company or organization.
- taxi ranksplural of taxi rank: An area reserved for taxi cabs to await customers.
- swelling the rankspresent participle and gerund of swell the ranks
- ordinal ranksplural of ordinal rank: A specified position in a numbered series.
- rising through the rankspresent participle and gerund of rise through the ranks
- rose through the rankssimple past of rise through the ranks
- swollen the rankspast participle of swell the ranks: To add significant numbers of members (to a group).
Compound words 14
- outranksthird-person singular simple present indicative of outrank: To be of a higher rank than.
- superranksplural of superrank: a generalization of the "basic rank" of a variety of algebras, used to characterize varieties of algebras that have an infinite basic rank by calculating a pair of non-negative integers, that represents the number of …
- downranksthird-person singular simple present indicative of downrank: To lower in rank.
- foreranksplural of forerank: The first rank; the front row.
- logranksplural of logrank: A logarithmic rank
- misranksthird-person singular simple present indicative of misrank: To rank wrongly or incorrectly
- overranksthird-person singular simple present indicative of overrank: Too rank or luxuriant.
- pageranksplural of pagerank: The algorithm used by Google Search to rank webpages and other media on the Internet.
- ranksmenplural of ranksman: A common soldier, one deployed in the rank and file.
- recranksthird-person singular simple present indicative of recrank: To crank again.