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Either your place in the pecking order, or the smell that got you demoted.
means Rank means a position in a hierarchy, or as an adjective, something offensively foul-smelling or growing in lush excess.
from From Old English ranc, meaning proud, sturdy, full-grown — the same overgrown vigor that curdles into both military hierarchy and overripe stench.
Two meaningsOrder and odor share zero etymological apology.
Math senseA matrix's rank counts its independent dimensions.
Lush growthRank originally praised vigor before it meant rotten.