Difference between Place and Rank

What is the difference between Place and Rank?

Place as a noun is a location or position. while Rank as a noun is position of a person, place, thing, or idea in relation to others based on a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality

Place

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A location or position. An open space, courtyard, market square. A group of houses. A region of a land. Somewhere for a person to sit. A frame of mind. A house or home. A role or purpose; a station. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity. The position of a contestant in a competition. The position as a member of a sports team.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To put (an object or person) in a specific location. To earn a given spot in a competition. To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered. To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race. To sing (a note) with the correct pitch. To arrange for or to make (a bet). To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.

Example sentence: Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Rank

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to give a person, place, thing, or idea a rank

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a very strong and bad odor.Gross, disgusting.Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: position of a person, place, thing, or idea in relation to others based on a shared property such as physical location, population, or qualitya level in an organization such as the militarya level in a scientific taxonomy systemThe lines or rows of people in an organizationOne of the horizontal lines of squares on a chessboardIn a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.The dimensionality of an array.

Example sentence: Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

We hope you now know whether to use Place or Rank in your sentence.

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