(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.
Unmitigated
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The last time policymakers resorted to such draconian measures was an unmitigated disaster: following the SEC's ban on naked short-selling of financial shares in late 2008, the S&P 500 index lost 21.5% of its value during the period of the veto.
(2) We share a responsibility to our future patients to address unmitigated climate change – described as “the biggest health threat of the 21st century” – and to advocate for a transition to a healthier, more sustainable economy.
(3) Myth 6: biofuels are always destructive to the environment Making some of our motor fuel from food has been an almost unmitigated disaster.
(4) They’re not going to be announcing, like they did at Carrier, that they’re closing up and they’re moving to Mexico.” So an unmitigated triumph for Trump?
(5) The Republican chairman of the House armed services committee, Californian Buck McKeon, castigated it as an unmitigated disaster.
(6) When he strokes the blank sheets the narrator notes his happiness: "Not for years, not since 1914 , had I witnessed an expression of such unmitigated happiness on the face of a German .
(7) The transfer window is currently six days old and so far it's been nothing short of an unmitigated, egregious waste of time.
(8) The chronic production of lipid peroxide-modified Lp(a) together with unmitigated cellular clearance by scavenger receptors may contribute to the accumulation of lipoprotein-derived lipid in macrophage-derived foam cells of the atherosclerotic reaction.
(9) The venture was a "flat, rank and unmitigated failure", wailed the man who had more or less invented popular journalism by creating the Daily Mail.
(10) "I don't see how anyone could invest in this company any longer," ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall told Associated Press, describing it as "an unmitigated train wreck".
(11) Ukip remains the great unknown Nigel Farage's Ukip conference was an unmitigated disaster.
(12) The display of cabinet solidity may not be all it seems: many know full well that their leader is an almost unmitigated electoral liability.
(13) On the first day back after the Christmas break, all that David Cameron could remember of December’s European Union summit was that it had been an unmitigated triumph.
(14) All that may happen is that prices of established dwellings go up less quickly than they would otherwise – and I think that would be an unmitigated good thing.” So now a line of economists, think-tanks, community groups and even Tony Abbott’s chair of the audit commission, Tony Shepherd, are on the record as calling for change to negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions.
(15) Phil Dorrell, director of retail consultants Retail Remedy From day one, Fresh & Easy was an unmitigated disaster for Tesco.
(16) Decision theory's role in medicine will lie between the extremes of naive optimism ("a Rosetta stone") and unmitigated pessimism ("a computerized Ouija board").
(17) The Case Against 8 – a documentary about the fight to overturn California's voter referendum that prohibited same-sex marriage for five years – leaves viewers with the unmitigated impression that Proposition 8 was overturned by a small group of very rich white people, the Great White Hope of Marriage Equality.
(18) 'Real fight starts now': Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit tweet prompts bruising response Read more Perhaps Brexit will be an unmitigated disaster – but even if it is, will the public blame the government and turn to the politicians who sought to block it in the first place?
(19) For the only western democracy without a human rights act or a developed constitutional underpinning of human rights, putting up our hand for a seat at the table looks like a piece of unmitigated presumption.
(20) This is the moment, in a life story of unmitigated misfortune, when you might expect that things would begin to improve.