The difference between Order and Rank
When used as nouns, order means arrangement, disposition, or sequence, whereas rank means a row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the perpendicular columns in such a pattern is "file"].
When used as verbs, order means to set in some sort of order, whereas rank means to place abreast, or in a line.
Rank is also adverb with the meaning: quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
Rank is also adjective with the meaning: strong of its kind or in character.
check bellow for the other definitions of Order and Rank
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Order as a noun (countable):
Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
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Order as a noun (countable):
A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
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Order as a noun (uncountable):
The state of being well arranged.
Examples:
"The house is in order; the machinery is out of order."
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Order as a noun (countable):
Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
Examples:
"to preserve order in a community or an assembly"
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Order as a noun (countable):
A command.
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Order as a noun (countable):
A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
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Order as a noun (countable):
A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles
Examples:
"St. Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit order in 1537."
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Order as a noun (countable):
An association of knights
Examples:
"the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath."
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Order as a noun:
any group of people with common interests.
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Order as a noun (countable):
A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
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Order as a noun (countable, taxonomy):
A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
Examples:
"Magnolias belong to the order Magnoliales."
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Order as a noun:
A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
Examples:
"the higher or lower orders of society"
"talent of a high order"
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Order as a noun:
An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural.
Examples:
"to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry"
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Order as a noun (architecture):
The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.
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Order as a noun (cricket):
The sequence in which a side's batsmen bat; the batting order.
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Order as a noun (electronics):
a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit's block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
Examples:
"a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter."
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Order as a noun (chemistry):
The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.
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Order as a noun (set theory):
The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.
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Order as a noun (group theory, of an element of a group):
For given group G and element g ∈ G, the smallest positive natural number n, if it exists, such that (using multiplicative notation), gn = e, where e is the identity element of G; if no such number exists, the element is said to be of infinite order (or sometimes zero order).
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Order as a noun (graph theory):
The number of vertices in a graph.
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Order as a noun (order theory):
A partially ordered set.
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Order as a noun (order theory):
The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.
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Order as a noun (algebra):
The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.
Examples:
"A quadratic polynomial, <math>a x^2 + b x +c,</math> is said to be of order (or degree) 2."
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Order as a verb (transitive):
To set in some sort of order.
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Order as a verb (transitive):
To arrange, set in proper order.
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Order as a verb (transitive):
To issue a command to.
Examples:
"to order troops to advance"
"He ordered me to leave."
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Order as a verb (transitive):
To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
Examples:
"to order groceries"
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Order as a verb:
To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
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Rank as an adjective:
Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).
Examples:
"'rank treason"
"'rank nonsense"
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Rank as an adjective:
Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
Examples:
"'rank grass"
"'rank weeds"
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Rank as an adjective:
Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
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Rank as an adjective:
Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
Examples:
"'rank land"
"rfquotek Mortimer"
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Rank as an adjective:
Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
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Rank as an adjective:
Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
Examples:
"Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?"
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Rank as an adjective:
Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
Examples:
"I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith."
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Rank as an adjective (informal):
Gross, disgusting.
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Rank as an adjective (obsolete):
Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.
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Rank as an adjective (obsolete):
Inflamed with venereal appetite.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Rank as an adverb (obsolete):
Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
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Rank as a noun:
A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers [the corresponding term for the perpendicular columns in such a pattern is "file"].
Examples:
"The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads."
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Rank as a noun (music):
In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
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Rank as a noun:
One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality
Examples:
"Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23."
"The fancy hotel was of the first rank."
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Rank as a noun:
The level of one's position in a class-based society
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Rank as a noun:
a hierarchical level in an organization such as the military
Examples:
"Private First Class (PFC) is the lowest rank in the Marines."
"He rose up through the ranks of the company from mailroom clerk to CEO."
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Rank as a noun (taxonomy):
a level in a scientific taxonomy system
Examples:
"Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class."
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Rank as a noun (linear algebra):
Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
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Rank as a noun (mathematics):
The dimensionality of an array or tensor.
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Rank as a noun (mathematics):
The size of any basis of a given matroid.
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Rank as a noun (chess):
one of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number). The analog vertical lines are the files.
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Rank as a noun (typically in the plural):
A category of people, such as those who share an occupation.
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Rank as a verb:
To place abreast, or in a line.
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Rank as a verb:
To have a ranking.
Examples:
"Their defense ranked third in the league."
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Rank as a verb:
To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
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Rank as a verb (US):
To take rank of; to outrank.