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Ranking   /rˈæŋkɪŋ/   Listen
Ranking

noun
1.
Position on a scale in relation to others in a sport.
adjective
1.
Having a higher rank.  Synonyms: higher-ranking, superior.


Rank

verb
(past & past part. ranked; pres. part. ranking)
1.
Take or have a position relative to others.
2.
Assign a rank or rating to.  Synonyms: grade, order, place, range, rate.  "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
3.
Take precedence or surpass others in rank.  Synonym: outrank.



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"Ranking" Quotes from Famous Books



... there are who know that in that momentary vision spoke in faint memory-whispers the gentle spirit-mother, who—ranking high in that vast army which, in the words of the ...
— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx
... that they constituted the chief landed aristocracy of the country. The modern Scottish nation, though it keeps its Celtic name (Scotland), is made up in great measure of inhabitants of English descent, the pure Scotch being confined mostly to the Highlands, and ranking in population only as about one to three of ...
— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery
... the governor general Great Council of Chiefs: highest ranking members of the traditional chiefly system cabinet: Cabinet; appointed by prime minister from members of Parliament and ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
... been hitherto unexplored by him. But he has not as yet defined this intermediate territory which lies somewhere between medicine and mathematics, and he would have felt that there was as great an impiety in ranking theories of physics first in the order of knowledge, as in placing the body ...
— Timaeus • Plato
... town of the third order (provincial capitals and prefectural towns ranking respectively first and second), some sapient Englishman with an eye to commerce perceived the advantage of the site; and in the dictation of the terms of peace in 1842 it was made one of the five ports. It has ...
— The Awakening of China • W.A.P. Martin


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