Ranker: alternatives and connections

One who arranges.

A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.

To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army; -- often used with up.

A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy.

An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army.

An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds…

One who sets type and arranges it for use.

One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower.

Relative space, between troops in ranks, measured from front to rear; -- contrasted with interval, which is measured from right to lef…

To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.

To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dr…

To place in ranks or in order.

A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a n…

One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc.

The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of c…

A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows…

A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.

To become connected by marriage between their members; to give and take mutually in marriage; -- said of families, ranks, castes, etc.