1. Growing profusely
2. Very fertile; producing profuse growth
3. Very offensive in smell or taste
4. Luxuriantly or excessively vigorous in growth
5. Offensively gross or coarse; foul

J(oseph) (1888-1972) English film magnate. Having entered films 1933 to promote the Methodist cause, by the mid-1940s he controlled, through the Rank Organization, half the British studios and more than 1,000 cinemas. The Rank Organization still owns the Odeon chain of cinemas, although film is now a minor part of its activities.

Množina: ranks

1. A row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
2. Relative status

1. To take or have a position relative to others
2. To take precedence or surpass others in rank; SYN. outrank.

Množina: rank and files

1. People who constitute the main body of any group.
2. The ordinary members of an organization (such as the soldiers excluding the officers of an army); SYN. rank.

Množina: rank beginners

Množina: rank correlations

A measure of correlation depending on rank.

Množina: rank growths

Množina: rank orders

An arrangement according to rank.

Množina: rank-order correlation coefficients

The most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables; SYN. rank-difference correlation coefficient, rank-difference correlation.

von (1795-1886) German historian whose quest for objectivity in history had great impact on the discipline. His attempts to explain “how it really was” dominated both German and outside historical thought until 1914 and beyond. His Weltgeschichte/World History (nine volumes 1881–88) exemplified his ideas.
Ranke pioneered empirical research and the analysis of sources. His ideas were often regarded as the beginning of “modern” history. He published extensively on a wide range of topics, including the development of the German peoples and Die romischen Papste, ihre Kirche und ihr Staat im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert/History of the Popes in the 16th and 17th Centuries 1834–36.
He was professor of history at Berlin University from 1825 until his death.

Množina: Ranke's angles

Množina: Ranke's complices

Singular of Ranke's stages is Ranke's stage.