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单词 in rank and file
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in rank and file
1. Military. The formation of rows and columns into which soldiers are drawn up for drill or service, esp. in in rank and file. Also in extended use and in figurative contexts. Cf. rank n.1 3a, file n.2 7a.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [noun] > arrangement in line or file
rank and file1598
alignment1781
filing1796
defile1835
society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [adverb]
in rank1581
in file1598
in rank and file1598
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 34 To learne to keepe his ranke and file orderly.
1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour iv. i. sig. H See the Souldiers set In ranke, and file.
1683 R. Dixon Canidia 184 Sophists and Legists bring in their Men. To do good Service other while, Upon occasion, out of Rank and File.
1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace xi. i. 273 The hardy Scots together stuck so true, In Rank and File Seven Thousand Suthron slew.
1792 H. Cowley Day in Turkey ii. 30 The doctors, with all their rank and file of phials and bolusses, could hardly drive him out of his veins.
a1822 A. Boswell Skeldon Haughs in Poet. Wks. (1871) The Crawfords march'd in rank and file.
1876 W. W. Fowler Woman on Amer. Frontier (1879) i. 17 The victory may be due as much, or more, to the patriot courage of him who is content to do his duty in the rank and file, as to the dashing colonel who heads the regiment.
1945 C. B. Williams tr. L. Szalet Exper. ‘E’ i. 26 Presently we were standing in rank and file, an irreproachable graded square of ten rows. Then Paul gave us further instruction in the camp rules.
1963 M. Bell Picture of Soldiers in Probable Volume of Dreams (1977) 35 Here they affected their final rank and file, from which they recovered to western fronts.
1992 M. Blonsky Amer. Mythologies (1993) xix. 459 On the New York sidewalk by the feet of joggers..are the books, scores of them neatly arranged in rank and file.
extracted from rank and filen.adv.adj.
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