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noun- The eighteenth letter of the Appendix:Roman script, English alphabet, preceded by Q and followed by S.
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(context, US politics) Republican
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(film certification) restricted
- reverse
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right (as opposed to left)
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(context, handbells) ring
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(context, baseball, cricket) The statistic reporting the number of runs scored by a player
- Thursday
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noun
- position of a person, place, thing, or idea in relation to others based on a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality
Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.
- a level in an organization such as the military
Private First Class (PFC) is the lowest rank in the Marines.
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(context, taxonomy) a level in a scientific taxonomy system
Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.
- (usu. pl) The lines or rows of people in an organization
He rose up through the ranks of the company from mailroom clerk to CEO.
- One of the horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard
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(music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- to give a person, place, thing, or idea a rank
- Their defense is ranked third in the league
adjective
- Having a very strong and bad odor.
- Something which is disgusting.
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noun
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(rare) A castle or other fortification.
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(chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
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A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
- An Amish card game.
- A swindler; someone who betrays.
verb
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(transitive) To cheat or swindle.
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