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

  1. Order as a noun (countable):

    Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

  2. Order as a noun (countable):

    A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.

  3. Order as a noun (uncountable):

    The state of being well arranged.

    Examples:

    "The house is in order; the machinery is out of order."

  4. 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"

  5. Order as a noun (countable):

    A command.

  6. Order as a noun (countable):

    A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.

  7. 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."

  8. Order as a noun (countable):

    An association of knights

    Examples:

    "the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath."

  9. Order as a noun:

    any group of people with common interests.

  10. 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.

  11. 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."

  12. 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"

  13. 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"

  14. 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.

  15. Order as a noun (cricket):

    The sequence in which a side's batsmen bat; the batting order.

  16. 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."

  17. 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.

  18. Order as a noun (set theory):

    The cardinality, or number of elements in a set, group, or other structure regardable as a set.

  19. 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).

  20. Order as a noun (graph theory):

    The number of vertices in a graph.

  21. Order as a noun (order theory):

    A partially ordered set.

  22. Order as a noun (order theory):

    The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it is, in fact, a partially ordered set.

  23. 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."

  1. Order as a verb (transitive):

    To set in some sort of order.

  2. Order as a verb (transitive):

    To arrange, set in proper order.

  3. Order as a verb (transitive):

    To issue a command to.

    Examples:

    "to order troops to advance"

    "He ordered me to leave."

  4. Order as a verb (transitive):

    To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.

    Examples:

    "to order groceries"

  5. Order as a verb:

    To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

  1. Rank as an adjective:

    Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).

    Examples:

    "'rank treason"

    "'rank nonsense"

  2. Rank as an adjective:

    Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.

    Examples:

    "'rank grass"

    "'rank weeds"

  3. Rank as an adjective:

    Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.

  4. Rank as an adjective:

    Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.

    Examples:

    "'rank land"

    "rfquotek Mortimer"

  5. Rank as an adjective:

    Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.

  6. 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?"

  7. Rank as an adjective:

    Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).

    Examples:

    "I am a rank amateur as a wordsmith."

  8. Rank as an adjective (informal):

    Gross, disgusting.

  9. Rank as an adjective (obsolete):

    Strong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

  10. Rank as an adjective (obsolete):

    Inflamed with venereal appetite.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  1. Rank as an adverb (obsolete):

    Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.

  1. 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."

  2. 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.

  3. 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."

  4. Rank as a noun:

    The level of one's position in a class-based society

  5. 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."

  6. Rank as a noun (taxonomy):

    a level in a scientific taxonomy system

    Examples:

    "Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class."

  7. Rank as a noun (linear algebra):

    Maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.

  8. Rank as a noun (mathematics):

    The dimensionality of an array or tensor.

  9. Rank as a noun (mathematics):

    The size of any basis of a given matroid.

  10. 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.

  11. Rank as a noun (typically in the plural):

    A category of people, such as those who share an occupation.

  1. Rank as a verb:

    To place abreast, or in a line.

  2. Rank as a verb:

    To have a ranking.

    Examples:

    "Their defense ranked third in the league."

  3. Rank as a verb:

    To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.

  4. Rank as a verb (US):

    To take rank of; to outrank.

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