The difference between Rank and Utter
When used as adverbs, rank means quickly, eagerly, impetuously, whereas utter means further out.
When used as verbs, rank means to place abreast, or in a line, whereas utter means to say.
When used as adjectives, rank means strong of its kind or in character, whereas utter means outer.
Rank is also noun with the meaning: 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"].
check bellow for the other definitions of Rank and Utter
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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.
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Utter as an adjective (now, _, poetic, literary):
Outer; furthest out, most remote.
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Utter as an adjective (obsolete):
Outward.
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Utter as an adjective:
Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
Examples:
"utter ruin; utter darkness"
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Utter as a verb (transitive):
To say
Examples:
"Don't you utter another word!"
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Utter as a verb (transitive):
To use the voice
Examples:
"Sally uttered a sigh of relief."
"The dog uttered a growling bark."
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Utter as a verb (transitive):
To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved
Examples:
"Sally is uttering some fairly strange things in her illness."
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Utter as a verb (transitive):
To make (a noise)
Examples:
"Sally's car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes."
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Utter as a verb (legal, transitive):
To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation
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Utter as an adverb (obsolete):
Further out; further away, outside.