Object

• passu: The shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing issued ordinary share capital of Highway.

Converse of object

• swell: The Soviet Republic replied by swelling the ranks of the Red Army to five million and launching the contentious march on Warsaw.

• attain: He has now attained the rank of Staff Sergeant, and is now serving with a unit in Malaya.

• join: In September 2004 they joined ranks with the Post Office.

Adjective modifier

• serried: The great and the good had come from all over the world and they sat in serried ranks to pay their last homage.

Adjective complement

• #1: I am ranked #1 for that silly phrase at Google.

• no.1: Ranked no.1 In East Anglia, and ranked no.

• ninth: Furthermore, in the first such survey conducted by the International Telecommunication Union in 2003, Taiwan ranked ninth in the digital access category.

• 8th: The game ended in a surprise 1-1 draw as Germany are ranked 8th in the world and were expected to win this game.

• 11th: Computer Sciences at Brunel is ranked 11th in the UK according to The Guardian Good University Guide.

• seventh: Forecourts were ranked seventh out of 14 retail sectors supermarkets were 12th in the new Are You Being Served?

Noun used with modifier

• taxi: The taxi rank is along side the terminal building.

Present participle complement

• accord: A preliminary investigation produces a list of areas ranked according to the number of occurrences.

Preposition: in

• quartile: Leicester was ranked in the top quartile of cities suitable for public sector relocation - the only city to rank in all relocation scenarios.

Preposition: of

• colonel: Rose to the rank of colonel in the New Model Army and was a close political associate of John Lambert.

• sergeant: So someone can move from the rank of sergeant up to chief inspector and not actually have had proper, adequate HR training.

• lieutenant: By 1811 he had reached the rank of lieutenant.

Modifies a noun

• outsider: Port Vale, MK Dons, Colchester and Blackpool are unfancied 40-1 shots, with Chesterfield rank outsiders at 66-1.

• passu: The New Ordinary Shares will, when issued and fully paid, rank pari passu in all respects with the Existing Ordinary Shares.

• correlation: How do I get average ranks for rank correlation and rank sum test?