ALL meanings of ranking
rank·ing
R r - noun ranking sports: in order 1
- noun ranking act of putting in order 1
- noun,plural ranking sports: order 1
- adjective ranking occupying certain place, rank 1
- adjective ranking senior or superior in rank, position, etc.: a ranking diplomat. 1
- adjective ranking prominent or highly regarded: a ranking authority on Soviet affairs. 1
- adjective ranking occupying a specific rank, position, etc. (often used in combination): a low-ranking executive. 1
- noun ranking a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body. 1
- noun ranking a social or official position or standing, as in the armed forces: the rank of captain. 1
- noun ranking high position or station in the social or some similar scale: a woman of rank. 1
- noun ranking a class in any scale of comparison. 1
- noun ranking relative position or standing: a writer of the first rank. 1
- noun ranking a row, line, or series of things or persons: orchestra players arranged in ranks. 1
- noun ranking ranks. the members of an armed service apart from its officers; enlisted personnel. military enlisted personnel as a group. 1
- noun ranking Usually, ranks. the general body of any party, society, or organization apart from the officers or leaders. 1
- noun ranking orderly arrangement; array. 1
- noun ranking a line of persons, especially soldiers, standing abreast in close-order formation (distinguished from file). 1
- noun ranking British. a place or station occupied by vehicles available for hire; stand: a taxi rank. 1
- noun ranking Chess. one of the horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard. 1
- noun ranking a set of organ pipes of the same kind and tonal color. 1
- noun ranking 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. 1
- noun ranking Mining. the classification of coal according to hardness, from lignite to anthracite. 1
- verb with object ranking to arrange in ranks or in regular formation: The men were ranked according to height. He ranked the chess pieces on the board. 1
- verb with object ranking to assign to a particular position, station, class, etc.: She was ranked among the most admired citizens. 1
- verb with object ranking to outrank: The colonel ranks all other officers in the squadron. 1
- verb with object ranking Slang. to insult; criticize. 1
- verb without object ranking to form a rank or ranks. 1
- verb without object ranking to take up or occupy a place in a particular rank, class, etc.: to rank well ahead of the other students. 1
- verb without object ranking to have rank or standing. 1
- verb without object ranking to be the senior in rank: The colonel ranks at this camp. 1
- verb without object ranking Slang. to complain. 1
- idioms ranking 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. 1
- idioms ranking pull rank (on), to make use of one's superior rank to gain an advantage over (someone). Also, pull one's rank (on) 1
- noun plural ranking In many sports, the list of the best players made by an official organization is called the rankings. 0
- countable noun ranking Someone's ranking is their position in an official list of the best players of a sport. 0
- adjective ranking The ranking member of a group, usually a political group, is the most senior person in it. 0
- adjective ranking prominent; high-ranking 0
- adjective ranking possessed of style; fashionable; exciting 0
- noun ranking a position on a scale; rating 0
- adjective ranking of the highest rank 0
- adjective ranking prominent or outstanding 0
- noun ranking the act or an instance of listing persons or things in order of importance, achievement, quality, etc. 0
- noun ranking such a listing 0