What's the difference between rank and smelly?

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.

Smelly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Am I suggesting, like an anti-racist Alf Garnett, that we keep out these foreign xenophobes who come here with their funny gestures, spreading their strange, smelly hatreds?
  • (2) Factor analysis yielded four indices: a) impact of disease (e.g., being a burden, loss of energy, loss of bowel control); b) sexual intimacy; c) complications of disease (e.g., developing cancer, having surgery, dying early); and d) body stigma (e.g., feeling dirty or smelly).
  • (3) It’s not as smelly as people imagine (myth number three), but it is still unpleasant, especially when the space is this confined, and one of the men tells me he reckons they are underpaid for what they do.
  • (4) Protesters of whatever variety will have taken on board the outcome of the Smellie trial.
  • (5) I had a daily urge to wave the white flag, especially after 10 smelly days without a bath.
  • (6) We prefered the method of Lövset und Veit-Smellie.
  • (7) Smellie, from the Met's territorial support group (TSG), a specialist public order unit, argued during his trial that he believed Fisher posed a threat to himself and fellow officers.
  • (8) Delroy Smellie was suspended last year after video footage was posted on YouTube showing him back-handing a protester and striking her twice on the legs with his metal baton.
  • (9) It’s a shame Blanc doesn’t have a load of old smelly chicken going cheap.
  • (10) He wasn't quite ready, though, for baked cheese, with all its smelly and delicious gooeyness.
  • (11) So you end up with two pairs of clothes and rather smelly."
  • (12) In her ruling today, the judge said she was satisfied that, faced with a protester "seeking confrontation", Smellie could not have used other options.
  • (13) Smellie, from the Met's territorial support group (TSG), was investigated after YouTube footage showed him striking Fisher with the back of his hand, then twice with a baton.
  • (14) I'm really not a germaphobe, but come on; not washing your trousers is disgusting, and not washing your trousers for five weeks when you're in a hot country, watching sport all day surrounded by smelly men, is really, really disgusting.
  • (15) You are variously described as unhygienic, smelly, scroungers, timewasters, uncommitted and the like.
  • (16) I have plenty of friends who insist that "smelly dog" stays in the cot, or that "green piggy" is only for nap time.
  • (17) Nodding to the judge after the hearing, Smellie said: "Thank you very much."
  • (18) Smellie told the court that, had he used other tactics, such as an elbow, he could have broken Fisher's bones.
  • (19) "One of them brought a speciality smelly fish from Norway into the restaurant and started eating it in front of customers.
  • (20) In a survey completed after the program, 23 nurses reported that they had less difficulty touching a smelly foot (p less than .02), that they would be less bothered by a foot with an odor (p less than .03), that they would have less difficulty touching an unsightly foot depicted in a slide (p less than .03), and that they felt less anger at patients who don't follow recommendations (p less than .03).