Difference between Rank and Outrank

What is the difference between Rank and Outrank?

Rank as a verb is to give a person, place, thing, or idea a rank while Outrank as a verb is to be of a higher rank than.

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 quality a level in an organization such as the military a level in a scientific taxonomy system The lines or rows of people in an organization One of the horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard In 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: He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Outrank

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be of a higher rank than.

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

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