different between rank vs ticket

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English ticket, from Old French etiquet m, *estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikan?, *stik?n?, *staikijan? (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?t?k?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?k?t/
• Rhymes: -?k?t

Noun

ticket (plural tickets)

1. A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
2. A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation
3. A citation for a traffic violation.
4. A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
5. A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally technical support related).
6. (informal) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.

7. A solution to a problem; something that is needed.
8. (dated) A little note or notice.
   • 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England

     He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors.

9. (dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
   • 1633, Shackerley Marmion, A Fine Companion

     Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.

10. A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
11. A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.
12. (dated) A visiting card.
    • 1878, Mrs. James Mason, All about Edith (page 124)

      I asked for a card, please, and she was quite put about, and said that she didn't require tickets to get in where she visited.

    • 1899, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading

      "Mr. Gibbs come in just now," said Mrs. Blewett, "and left his ticket over the chimley. There 'tis. I haven't touched it."

13. (law enforcement slang) A warrant.
    • 1999, Doug Most, Always in Our Hearts (page 148)

      […] I need a ticket, Bobby.” Agnor knew a ticket meant a search warrant.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: tiket
• ? Assamese: ???? (tikot)
• ? Bengali: ????? (?iki?), ????? (?iki?), ???? (?ikô?)
• ? Catalan: tiquet
• ? Dutch: ticket
  • ? Indonesian: tiket
• ? French: ticket
• ? German: Ticket
• ? Hindustani:

  Hindi: ???? (?ika?)

  Urdu: ???? (?ika?)

• ? Irish: ticéad
• ? Italian: ticket
• ? Japanese: ???? (chiketto)
• ? Korean: ?? (tiket)
• ? Malay: tiket
• ? Maori: t?keti
• ? Marathi: ????? (tik??)
• ? Nepali: ???? (?ika?)
• ? Oriya: ???? (?ikô?ô)
• ? Portuguese: ticket, tiquete
• ? Scottish Gaelic: tiogaid
• ? Serbo-Croatian: ????? (tiket)
• ? Spanish: ticket, tique, tiquete
• ? Tagalog: tiket
• ? Tamil: ????????? (?ikka??u)
• ? Tibetan: ??????? (?i ka si)

Translations

See also

• ticket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ticket in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Verb

ticket (third-person singular simple present tickets, present participle ticketing, simple past and past participle ticketed)

1. To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
2. To mark with a ticket.

   to ticket goods in a retail store

Derived terms

• ticket off

Translations

Anagrams

• ktetic

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.k?t/
• Hyphenation: tic?ket

Noun

ticket n or m (plural tickets, diminutive ticketje n)

1. ticket or voucher

Derived terms

• vliegticket

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: tiket

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.k?/

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. ticket (admission, pass)
2. receipt
3. (Quebec) ticket (traffic citation)

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From English ticket. Doublet of etichetta.

Noun

ticket m (invariable)

1. prescription charge
2. ticket stub (especially at a horserace)

Further reading

• ticket in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?t??i.ket??/

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. ticket (slip entitling the holder to something)

   Synonym: bilhete

Spanish

Etymology

From English ticket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tiket/, [?t?i.ket?]

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. receipt

Swedish

Noun

ticket

1. definite singular of tick