different between import vs rank

English

Pronunciation

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?m?pôt, IPA^(key): /??m.p??t/
• (General American) enPR: ?m?pôrt, IPA^(key): /??m.p??t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?m?p?rt, IPA^(key): /??m.po(?)?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /??m.po?t/

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?mpôt?, IPA^(key): /?m?p??t/
• (General American) enPR: ?mpôrt?, IPA^(key): /?m?p??t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?mp?rt?, IPA^(key): /?m?po(?)?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?m?po?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English importen, from Old French emporter, importer, from Latin import? (“bring in from abroad, import”, verb), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + port? (“I carry, bear; convey”).

Noun

import (countable and uncountable, plural imports)

1. (countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
2. (uncountable) The practice of importing.
3. (uncountable) Significance, importance.

4. (countable, Philippines) A foreigner playing in a sports league.

Synonyms

• (significance): importancy, importance, meaning, purport, significance, tenor, weight

Antonyms

• (practice of importing): export
• (something brought in from a foreign country): export
• insignificance

Translations

Verb

import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)

1. (transitive) To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.

   Antonym: export

2. (transitive) To load a file into a software application from another version or system.

   Antonym: export

   How can I import files from older versions of this application?

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:import.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Italian importare, and French importer, from Latin import?.

Verb

import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)

1. (intransitive) To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
   • 1661, Thomas Salusbury

     See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.

2. (transitive) To be of importance to (someone or something).
   • If I endure it, what imports it you?

3. (transitive) To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
   • 1762, David Hume, The History of England:

     It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.

4. (transitive) To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
   • 1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci:

     It much imports your house That all should be made clear.

5. (transitive) To mean, signify.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Every petition […] doth […] always import a multitude of speakers together.

6. (transitive, archaic) To express, to imply.

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “import”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??mport]

Noun

import m inan

1. import

   Synonym: dovoz

   Antonyms: export, vývoz

Related terms

• importér
• importní
• importovat

Dutch

Etymology

Back-formed from importeren or borrowed from English import.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m.p?rt/
• Hyphenation: im?port

Noun

import m (plural importen, diminutive importje n)

1. Geographical import.
2. (Netherlands, collective) A person or people who is/are not native to a city, village or region, but moved there from outside.

Synonyms

• (import): invoer

Antonyms

• (import): export, uitvoer

Derived terms

• importbruid
• importgoederen
• importhandel

Related terms

• importeur

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: impor
• ? West Frisian: ymport

French

Noun

import m (plural imports)

1. Geographical import

Derived terms

• importeur m

Further reading

• “import” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• promit, promît, rompit, rompît

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English import.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?import]
• Hyphenation: im?port
• Rhymes: -ort

Noun

import (plural importok)

1. import

Declension

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English or German

Noun

import m (definite singular importen, indefinite plural importer, definite plural importene)

1. import

Related terms

• importere

References

• “import” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English or German

Noun

import m (definite singular importen, indefinite plural importar, definite plural importane)

1. import

References

• “import” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English import, from Middle English importen, from Old French emporter, importer, from Latin import?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?im.p?rt/

Noun

import m inan

1. (economics) import (act of importing)

   Antonym: eksport

2. (economics) import (something brought in from a foreign country)

   Antonym: eksport

Declension

Derived terms

• (verbs) importowa?, zaimportowa?
• (adjective) importowy

Related terms

• (noun) importer

Further reading

• import in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• import in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Back-formation from importa

Noun

import n (plural importuri)

1. import

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English import, from Latin importare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mport/
• Hyphenation: i?mport

Noun

ìmport m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. import (practice of importing)
2. An import (something brought in from a foreign country)

Declension

References

• “import” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Noun

import c

1. import

Declension

Synonyms

• införsel

Antonyms

• export

Related terms

• importera
• importförbud
• importtillstånd
• importtull

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.

6. The level of one's position in a class-based society.
7. (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
9. 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.

10. (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.

    Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.

11. (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
13. (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
14. (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
15. (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