rank·er

(răng′kər)

n. Chiefly British

1. An enlisted soldier.

2. A commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status.

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ranker

(ˈræŋkə)

1. (Military) a soldier in the ranks

2. (Military) a commissioned officer who entered service as a recruit, esp in the army

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rank•er

(ˈræŋ kər)

n.

1. a person who ranks.

2. Brit. a soldier in the ranks or a commissioned officer promoted from the ranks.

[1825–35]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	ranker - a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom commissioned officer - a military officer holding a commission
	2.	ranker - an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom soldier - an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army; "the soldiers stood at attention"

Translations

ranker

[ˈræŋkəʳ] N (Mil) (= officer) → oficial m patatero

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ranker

n (Mil) (= soldier) → einfacher or gemeiner Soldat; (= officer) aus dem Mannschaftsstand aufgestiegener Offizier

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But now that Kutuzov had spoken to the gentleman ranker, he addressed him with the cordiality of an old friend.

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In particular, we propose an extended GHT that updates the best matching score and the sum up score simultaneously, combined with a customized face detector and circular magnitude ranker, for detecting Guy Fawkes; we also propose an extended GHT capable of mining the directionality property in Hough space, combined with object character recognition and an edge density filter, for detecting the presence of credit cards in social media images.

Xinpeng Liao, Pradip Chitrakar, Chengcui Zhang, Gary Warner, Dept. of Computer And Informational Sciences

In the second article, 'The Role of Semiotic Resource Complexes in Emergent Multimodal Reading Processes: Insights From a Young Student's Reading of a Comic Book', Jason Ranker examines how a young child makes meaning as they engage with a multimodal comic book text and discusses pedagogical implications for the role teachers might play in this process.

Editorial

The three time top ranker dropped around 2.5 percent from last year's market share of 16.05 percent.

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The same has again happened against 148th ranker Syria in a semifinal match of West Asia Soccer Championship in Kuwait.

Soccer rethink?

Considerable work needs to be done to overcome the major deficiencies in ranker methods, especially those reliant on reputational surveys and proxy indicators, to give them greater statistical validity and reliability and better representation of disciplinary fields and cross-disciplinary work.

World University Rankings: Ambiguous Signals. Go8 Backgrounder 30

The nonpayment came to light after Richie sold Coldwell Ranker Advantage to the Little Rock realty firm of Rector Phillips Morse in December 2008.

Monetary satisfaction?

Earlier on, Jang Kyeong-hun in the men's under-74 kilogram division was defeated 4-1 by the world's top ranker and the eventual winner Alireza Nassrazadany of Iran in the first round.

Iran Ranks 9th in Medal List of Asian Games

KARACHI, June 25 -- The dispute between the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) officers and Ranker Police Officers (RPOs) is obstructing the law enforcers from effectively maintaining the law and order situation in the city, Daily Times learnt Thursday.

PSP officers, RPOs at loggerheads

Even if she is not fertile, she's more likely to vocalize when she's with a high-ranking male than with a low ranker. The benefit of this strategy could be that she avoids attacks from other females while confusing males about who's going to be the dad, Townsend and his colleagues propose in the June PLoS ONE.

Chimp noises suit audience: females' sex sounds depend on eavesdroppers

ABSTRACT: The rank aggregation problem has been studied extensively in recent years with a focus on how to combine several different rankers to obtain a consensus aggregate ranker.

Information vs. robustness in rank aggregation: models, algorithms and a statistical framework for evaluation