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duty

English

Etymology

From Middle English duete, from Middle English dewe) + Middle English -te, (borrowed from Old French -te from Latin -t?tem, accusative masculine singular of -t?s). Akin to due + -ty (Alternative form of -ity).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?dju?ti/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /du?ti/
  • Rhymes: -u?ti
  • Homophone: doody (for some speakers)

Noun

duty (countable and uncountable, plural duties)

  1. That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.
    • 1805, 21 October, Horatio Nelson
      England expects that every man will do his duty.
    • Captain Edward Carlisle [] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, []; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  2. The state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task.
  3. A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.
    customs duty; excise duty
  4. (obsolete) One's due, something one is owed; a debt or fee.
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XX:
      Take that which is thy duty, and goo thy waye.
  5. (obsolete) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
  6. The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).

Usage notes

  • Adjectives often used with "duty": public, private, moral, legal, social, double, civic, contractual, political, judicial, etc.

Synonyms

  • (that which one is obligated to do): obligation

Antonyms

  • duty-free (taxes)
  • (that which one is obligated to do): right

Derived terms

Related terms

  • due

Translations

Further reading

  • duty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • duty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • duty at OneLook Dictionary Search

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?dut?]

Participle

duty

  1. past passive participle of du?

Declension

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rank

Translingual

Symbol

rank

  1. (mathematics) The symbol for rank.

English

Alternative forms

  • ranck (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?æ?k/
  • Rhymes: -æ?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English rank (strong, proud), from Old English ranc (proud, haughty, arrogant, insolent, forward, overbearing, showy, ostentatious, splendid, bold, valiant, noble, brave, strong, full-grown, mature), from Proto-West Germanic *rank, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz (straight), from Proto-Indo-European *h?re?- (straight, direct). Cognate with Dutch rank (slender, slim), Low German rank (slender, projecting, lank), Danish rank (straight, erect, slender), Swedish rank (slender, shaky, wonky), Icelandic rakkur (straight, slender, bold, valiant).

Adjective

rank (comparative ranker or more rank, superlative rankest or most rank)

  1. Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).
  2. Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
    • And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
  3. Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
  4. Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
  5. Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
  6. Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
    Synonyms: stinky, smelly, (UK) pong
    • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist
      Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they ordinarily feed.
  7. Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
    Synonyms: complete, utter
  8. (informal) Gross, disgusting.
  9. (obsolete) Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
  10. (obsolete) lustful; lascivious
Derived terms
  • ranken
  • rankful
Translations

Adverb

rank (comparative more rank, superlative most rank)

  1. (obsolete) Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:
      The seely man seeing him ryde so rancke, / And ayme at him, fell flat to ground for feare [...].
    • That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell.

Etymology 2

From Middle English rank (line, row), from Old French ranc, rang, reng (line, row, rank) (Modern French rang), from Frankish *hring (ring), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (something bent or curved).

Akin to Old High German (h)ring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring, hrincg (ring) (Modern English ring), Old Norse hringr (ring, circle, queue, sword; ship). More at ring.

Noun

rank (countable and uncountable, plural ranks)

  1. A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
    Antonym: file
    The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.
  2. (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
    Antonym: file
  3. (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
  4. 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.
  5. The level of one's position in a class-based society.
  6. (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
  7. 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.
  8. (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
    Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.
  9. (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
  10. (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
  11. (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
  12. (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.
Derived terms
  • break rank
  • cab off the rank
  • cab rank
  • cab-rank rule
  • close ranks
  • pull rank
  • taxi rank
Translations

Verb

rank (third-person singular simple present ranks, present participle ranking, simple past and past participle ranked)

  1. To place abreast, or in a line.
  2. To have a ranking.
    Their defense ranked third in the league.
  3. To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
    • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard
      Ranking all things under general and special heads.
    • 1726, William Broome, The Odyssey (by Homer)
      Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.
    • 1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety
      Heresy [is] ranked with idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, murders, and other sins of the flesh.
  4. (US) To take rank of; to outrank.
Derived terms
  • misrank
  • outrank
Translations

References

  • rank at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • rank in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • ARNK, Karn, karn, knar, kran, nark

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /r??k/
  • Hyphenation: rank
  • Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ranc, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz.

Adjective

rank (comparative ranker, superlative rankst)

  1. slender, svelte
Inflection

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch ranc, ranke, from Old Dutch *rank, from Frankish hranca.

Noun

rank f (plural ranken, diminutive rankje n)

  1. tendril, a thin winding stem

Anagrams

  • karn

References


German

Etymology

From Middle Low German rank, ranc, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?a?k/

Adjective

rank (comparative ranker, superlative am ranksten)

  1. (poetic, dated, except in the phrase rank und schlank) lithe, lissome

Declension

Related terms

  • rahn

Verb

rank

  1. singular imperative of ranken

Further reading

  • “rank” in Duden online

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