ranking

See also: ránking

English

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹænk.ɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ænkɪŋ

Verb

ranking

  1. present participle of rank

Adjective

ranking (comparative more ranking, superlative most ranking)

  1. (in combination) Having a specified rank.
  2. Superior in rank.
    • 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 — […]
    • 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.

Translations

Noun

ranking (plural rankings)

  1. One’s relative placement in a list.

Descendants
  • → Catalan: rànquing
  • → Danish: ranking
  • → German: Ranking
  • → Japanese: ランキング (rankingu)
  • → Polish: ranking
  • → Portuguese: ranking
  • → Russian: рэ́нкинг (rɛ́nking)
  • → Spanish: ranking, ránking
  • → Swedish: ranking

Translations

Anagrams

Basque

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ranking, from Spanish ranking.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /rankin/, [rãŋ.kĩn]

Noun

ranking inan

  1. ranking

Declension
Declension of ranking (inanimate, ending in consonant)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive ranking rankinga rankingak
ergative rankingek rankingak rankingek
dative rankingi rankingari rankingei
genitive rankingen rankingaren rankingen
comitative rankingekin rankingarekin rankingekin
causative rankingengatik rankingarengatik rankingengatik
benefactive rankingentzat rankingarentzat rankingentzat
instrumental rankingez rankingaz rankingez
inessive rankingetan rankingean rankingetan
locative rankingetako rankingeko rankingetako
allative rankingetara rankingera rankingetara
terminative rankingetaraino rankingeraino rankingetaraino
directive rankingetarantz rankingerantz rankingetarantz
destinative rankingetarako rankingerako rankingetarako
ablative rankingetatik rankingetik rankingetatik
partitive rankingik — —
prolative rankingtzat — —

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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English ranking.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈraŋ.kiŋk/
  • Rhymes: -aŋkiŋk
  • Syllabification: ran‧king

Noun

ranking m inan

  1. ranking
    Synonym: gradacja

Declension
Declension of ranking
singular plural
nominative ranking rankingi
genitive rankingu rankingów
dative rankingowi rankingom
accusative ranking rankingi
instrumental rankingiem rankingami
locative rankingu rankingach
vocative rankingu rankingi

Derived terms
adjective

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ranking.

Pronunciation

Noun

ranking m (plural rankings)

  1. ranking
    Synonym: classificação

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ranking.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈrankin/ [ˈrãŋ.kĩn]
  • Rhymes: -ankin

Noun

ranking m (plural rankings)

  1. ranking
    Synonym: clasificación

Usage notes

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.

Further reading
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