ranking

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See also: Ranking and ránking

English[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹæn.kɪŋ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹæŋ.kɪŋ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ænkɪŋ

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ranking

  1. present participle and gerund of rank

Adjective[edit]

ranking (comparative more ranking, superlative most ranking)

  1. (in combination) Having a specified rank.
  2. Superior in rank.
    • 2002, Stephen Tanner, Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban, page 176:
      Eldred Pottinger was now the ranking political officer and had negotiated—at the insistence of the army's officers—an unmolested passage to Jalalabad.
  3. Prominent or outstanding.
    • 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Inner Mongolia”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China[1], McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 188, column 1:
      In a region as large and sparsely populated as this, it is not surprising that there are few cities. Hu-ho-hao-t’e and Pao-t’ou are the two ranking cities of Inner Mongolia. Hu-ho-hao-t’e, the capital of the region, is one of China's famous ancient cities; it was once a trade center to which the wool, hides, food, and medicine from the surrounding grasslands were brought.
    • 1990, Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s, page 48:
      But neither leader nor followers give up the rhythms or reasons of a ranking MC, and I'm grieved to report that only “Kick Out the Jams” overcomes the formlessness of personality his detractors have always charged him with — []

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Noun[edit]

ranking (plural rankings)

  1. One’s relative placement in a list.

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Basque[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish ranking, from English ranking.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /rankin/, [rãŋ.kĩn]

Noun[edit]

ranking inan

  1. ranking

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Further reading[edit]

  • "ranking" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

Polish[edit]

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English ranking.

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Noun[edit]

ranking m inan

  1. ranking (placement in a list)
    Synonym: gradacja

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adjective

Further reading[edit]

  • ranking in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ranking in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English ranking.

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Noun[edit]

ranking m (plural rankings)

  1. ranking
    Synonym: classificação

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English ranking.

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Noun[edit]

ranking m (plural rankings)

  1. ranking
    Synonym: clasificación

Usage notes[edit]

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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