Definitions for ranking

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ranking rank·ing

Spelling: [rang-king]

IPA: /ˈræŋ kɪŋ/

Ranking is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in ranking (agiknnr).

Definitions for ranking

noun

1. an act or instance of indicating relative standing.
2. a list showing such standing.
3. a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
4. a social or official position or standing, as in the armed forces:
5. high position or station in the social or some similar scale:
6. a class in any scale of comparison.
7. relative position or standing:
8. a row, line, or series of things or persons:
9. ranks. the members of an armed service apart from its officers; enlisted personnel. military enlisted personnel as a group.
10. Usually, ranks. the general body of any party, society, or organization apart from the officers or leaders.
11. orderly arrangement; array.
12. a line of persons, especially soldiers, standing abreast in close-order formation (distinguished from file).
13. British. a place or station occupied by vehicles available for hire; stand:
14. Chess. one of the horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard.
15. a set of organ pipes of the same kind and tonal color.
16. Also called determinant rank. Mathematics. the order of the nonzero determinant of greatest order that can be selected from a given matrix by the elimination of rows and columns.
17. Mining. the classification of coal according to hardness, from lignite to anthracite.

Idioms

1. break ranks, to leave an assigned position in a military formation. to disagree with, defect from, or refuse to support one's colleagues, party, or the like.
2. pull rank (on), to make use of one's superior rank to gain an advantage over (someone). Also, pull one's rank (on)

adjective

1. senior or superior in rank, position, etc.:
2. prominent or highly regarded:
3. occupying a specific rank, position, etc. (often used in combination):

verb (used with object)

1. to arrange in ranks or in regular formation:
2. to assign to a particular position, station, class, etc.:
3. to outrank:
4. Slang. to insult; criticize.

verb (used without object)

1. to form a rank or ranks.
2. to take up or occupy a place in a particular rank, class, etc.:
3. to have rank or standing.
4. to be the senior in rank:
5. Slang. to complain.

Origin of ranking

First recorded in 1860-65; rank¹ + -ing², -ing¹

Examples for ranking

The most detailed and comprehensive briefings are often limited to the chairman and ranking members of the committees.

Delta is a Platinum Global Partner, ranking them among the highest-level contributors to the association.

In 1843 he graduated, ranking twenty-first in a class of thirty-nine.

But his ranking Democratic member just told an amusing story about Issa.

I do not dream for a moment of ranking myself in the class of those who wish to rule.

In a ranking of gender-based economic disparity, Turkey is 126th out of 136 countries.

Despite its ranking at the bottom of most international development indexes, the conflict is shrouded by confusion.

And, since he was the ranking Exec, he was expected to give some sort of answer.

Linn was ranking officer, although there was little discipline.

The officer taking the next place to a general, ranking with vice-admiral.