If two different ranks would complete a straight, it becomes the higher.
He had been in the army long enough to feel uncomfortable about social intercourse between widely different ranks.
Titles 1-6 regulate the law of the different social ranks.
They were of such different ranks, he tried to tell himself, and it was altogether too frivolous.
They bad a primitively complicated social order, with leaders of different ranks.
Service members of significantly different ranks are barred from dating.
Military high schools share the same insignia but use different ranks.
There are different ranks within the military, granting some people more power.
He/she can play different ranks of pipes together by pulling out several stops.
Boys held different ranks and received demerits for bad behavior.