The noun rank has 5 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (20) rank -- (a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another; "the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen")
2. (6) rank -- (relative status; "his salary was determined by his rank and seniority")
3. (3) rank and file, 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")
4. (2) social station, social status, social rank, rank -- (position in a social hierarchy; "the British are more aware of social status than Americans are")
5. (1) membership, 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")
Overview of verb rank
The verb rank has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (2) rank -- (take or have a position relative to others; "This painting ranks among the best in the Western World")
2. (1) rate, rank, range, order, grade, place -- (assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide")
3. rank, outrank -- (take precedence or surpass others in rank)
Overview of adj rank
The adj rank has 5 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
2. rank -- (very offensive in smell or taste; "a rank cigar")
3. crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, 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")
4. absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer -- (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")