What's the difference between chevron and rank?

Chevron


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.
  • (n.) A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.
  • (n.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The osteotomies were biplanar neck, Chevron, biplanar basilar, basilar concentric, and basilar concentric combined with a lateral closing wedge.
  • (2) Companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and Halliburton (and many more) have all made key investments in building permanent advocacy assets and programs to support their lobbying, outreach and policy efforts,” the documents say .
  • (3) However, averaged crossbridge structure differs between lead and rear members of double chevrons, unlike the uniform heads on decorated actin.
  • (4) The two sides are set to go to court on 15 November, when Chevron will ask a court to reject the ruling from Ecuador .
  • (5) The approach was a subcostal chevron incision coupled with a midline sternotomy.
  • (6) Photograph: Alamy “I have had to spend a lot of money in getting an inverter to reduce what I spend on fuel for my generator,” says Osikhena Dirisu, a radio personality at the popular Beat FM, who lives in one of the estates next to the headquarters of Chevron.
  • (7) This is a retrospective study of two different types of fixation for the offset-V modification of the Chevron (Austin) bunionectomy for correction of hallux abducto valgus deformity.
  • (8) Two area 18 cells responded consistently better to a chevron stimulus than to a straight line of any orientation.
  • (9) These contacts had smooth external surfaces and were often arranged in chevron-shaped complexes.
  • (10) Chevron spokesman Kent Robertson said the Ecuadorians were guilty of "shocking levels of misconduct."
  • (11) The plaintiffs claim Chevron's operations discharged billions of gallons of toxic waste into Amazon lands, affecting over 1,500 square miles of the Amazon, causing cancer rates to soar, destroying locals' livelihoods and habitats, and killing flora and fauna.
  • (12) Chevron remains committed to building constructive and positive relationships with the communities where we operate.” But local people in the area covered by Chevron’s concession, claim that such relationships went beyond what might be reasonably termed constructive.
  • (13) They incorporated a chevron fusion technique previously described.
  • (14) Preliminary observations showed that the effect occurs also in chevron figures, in an afterimage of the arc figure, and haptically in arc- and chevron-shaped objects.
  • (15) The sole exception was the Chevron World Challenge at the tail end of last year, when he birdied the final two holes to hold off Zach Johnson for victory.
  • (16) Chevrons and curved targets show the same pattern of results.
  • (17) However, four of the 10 (40%) patients who had a Chevron osteotomy plus a lateral adductor release developed osteonecrosis.
  • (18) In cells with dissimilarly tuned half fields, the skew in chevron tuning was predictable from the orientation tuning of each half of the receptive field.
  • (19) In the latest stage of its campaign against deep sea drilling, Greenpeace has targeted a 228m long ship owned by the US oil giant Chevron which had been preparing to set sail to drill in about 500m of water some 150km north of Shetland.
  • (20) Their chevron shapes are inset with cowls and scoops, giving them the air of a certain kind of painted, post-industrial abstract relief I haven't seen in years.

Rank


Definition:

  • (superl.) Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
  • (superl.) Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.
  • (superl.) Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.
  • (superl.) Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.
  • (superl.) Strong to the taste.
  • (superl.) Inflamed with venereal appetite.
  • (adv.) Rankly; stoutly; violently.
  • (n. & v.) A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.
  • (n. & v.) A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).
  • (n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.
  • (n. & v.) An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.
  • (n. & v.) Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.
  • (n. & v.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.
  • (v. t.) To place abreast, or in a line.
  • (v. t.) To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.
  • (v. t.) To take rank of; to outrank.
  • (v. i.) To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.
  • (v. i.) To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
  • (2) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
  • (3) Measures of average and cumulative rank were used to augment tests of the significance of correlations between different indicators.
  • (4) The programs are written in Fortran and are implemented on a Rank Xerox Sigma 6 computer.
  • (5) Significant differences in the pharmacological characteristics of the alpha 2 adrenoceptor were observed between the tissues with reference to both absolute drug affinities as well as rank order of drug potency.
  • (6) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
  • (7) This analysis is based on a ranking of neighbourhoods according to the participation of young people in higher education.
  • (8) When histamine (5 micrograms) was injected into three different levels of the ventricular system, the magnitude and duration of the resulting increases in plasma epinephrine and glucose were in the following rank order: the third ventricle greater than aqueduct much greater than fourth ventricle.
  • (9) The rank order of potency of the peptides tested was VIP greater than rat (r) peptide histidine isoleucine = human (h) PHI greater than rGRF greater than bovine GRF = porcine PHI = VIP-(10-28) greater than hGRF greater than secretin greater than apamin greater than glucagon.
  • (10) In the latter case, the studies have resulted in a ranking of processes and treatment methods to protect the environment.
  • (11) Cefuzoname seems to be among the middle ranks of beta-lactam agents as far as penetration rate is concerned; however, when its potent antibacterial activity and broad spectrum are taken into account, the concentrations in CSF in patients with meningitis seem worth examining.
  • (12) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
  • (13) Using an explicit process, the Oregon Health Services Commission has completed the ranking of 714 condition-treatment pairs.
  • (14) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
  • (15) On guinea-pig lung strip the rank order of potency was U-46619 greater than Wy17186 much greater than PGF2 alpha greater than PGE2 and responses to all agonists tested were blocked by AH19437 but not by SC-19220.
  • (16) In the UK, George Osborne used this to his advantage, claiming "Britain faces the disaster of having its international credit rating downgraded" even after Moody's ranked UK debt as "resilient".
  • (17) The eight senators, including the incoming ranking member Mark Warner of Virginia, wrote to Barack Obama to request he declassify relevant intelligence on the election.
  • (18) Hence, a priori haplotyping cannot exclude a particular CF mutation, but in combination with population genetic data, enables mutations to be ranked by decreasing probability.
  • (19) The rank order of potencies of the four AEDs was: (a) in young: CBZ > PHT > PhB > VPA; (b) in adult: CBZ > PhB > PHT > VPA.
  • (20) Patients clinically evaluated as effective tended to be so pathologically as well, as shown by Spearman's rank correlation test which gave a significant correlation between the clinical and pathological scores.