Simple past tense and past participle of rank, adjective_ arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks

Categorization or arrangement of a group of people or things into such ranks or grades, A group of animals in which certain members or subgroups dominate or submit to others, Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it

A bird or flock of birds that has been frightened from cover, A hand in which all the cards are of the same suit but not in numerical sequence, ranked above a straight and below a full house in poker, The act of cleaning or rinsing by or as if by flushing, intransitive verb_ To remove or eliminate, To drive away with a rapid flow of a liquid, Having surfaces in the same plane; even, adverb_ Squarely or solidly

An often portable structure consisting of two long sides crossed by parallel rungs, used to climb up and down, Something that resembles this device, especially a run in a stocking, A means of moving higher or lower, as in a hierarchy, A series of ranked stages or levels