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Definitions for Ranking

[1] senior or superior in rank, position, etc.: a ranking diplomat.
[2] prominent or highly regarded: a ranking authority on Soviet affairs.
[3] occupying a specific rank, position, etc. (often used in combination): a low-ranking executive.
[4] an act or instance of indicating relative standing.
[5] a list showing such standing.
[6] a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
[7] a social or official position or standing, as in the armed forces: the rank of captain.
[8] high position or station in the social or some similar scale: a woman of rank.
[9] a class in any scale of comparison.
[10] relative position or standing: a writer of the first rank.
[11] a row, line, or series of things or persons: orchestra players arranged in ranks.
[12] ranks, the members of an armed service apart from its officers; enlisted personnel. military enlisted personnel as a group.
[13] Usually ranks . the general body of any party, society, or organization apart from the officers or leaders.
[14] orderly arrangement; array.
[15] a line of persons, especially soldiers, standing abreast in close-order formation (distinguished from file).
[16] British . a place or station occupied by vehicles available for hire; stand: a taxi rank.
[17] Chess . one of the horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard.
[18] a set of organ pipes of the same kind and tonal color.
[19] 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.
[20] Mining . the classification of coal according to hardness, from lignite to anthracite.
[21] to arrange in ranks or in regular formation: The men were ranked according to height. He ranked the chess pieces on the board.
[22] to assign to a particular position, station, class, etc.: She was ranked among the most admired citizens.
[23] to outrank: The colonel ranks all other officers in the squadron.
[24] Slang . to insult; criticize.
[25] to form a rank or ranks.
[26] to take up or occupy a place in a particular rank, class, etc.: to rank well ahead of the other students.
[27] to have rank or standing.
[28] to be the senior in rank: The colonel ranks at this camp.
[29] Slang . to complain.
[30] mainly US and Canadian prominent; high ranking
[31] Caribbean slang possessed of style; fashionable; exciting
[32] a position on a scale; rating a ranking in a tennis tournament
[33] (ræŋk ) J (oseph ) Arthur , 1st Baron. 1888–1972, British industrialist and film executive, whose companies dominated the British film industry in the 1940s and 1950s
[34] (German raŋk ) Otto (ˈɔto). 1884–1939, Austrian psychoanalyst, noted for his theory that the trauma of birth may be reflected in certain forms of mental illness
[35] a position, esp an official one, within a social organization, esp the armed forces the rank of captain
[36] high social or other standing; status
[37] a line or row of people or things
[38] the position of an item in any ordering or sequence
[39] British a place where taxis wait to be hired
[40] a line of soldiers drawn up abreast of each other Compare file 1 (def. 5)
[41] any of the eight horizontal rows of squares on a chessboard
[42] (in systemic grammar) one of the units of description of which a grammar is composed. Ranks of English grammar are sentence, clause, group, word, and morpheme
[43] music a set of organ pipes controlled by the same stop
[44] maths (of a matrix) the largest number of linearly independent rows or columns; the number of rows (or columns) of the nonzero determinant of greatest order that can be extracted from the matrix
[45] break ranks military to fall out of line, esp when under attack
[46] close ranks to maintain discipline or solidarity, esp in anticipation of attack
[47] pull rank to get one's own way by virtue of one's superior position or rank
[48] (tr) to arrange (people or things) in rows or lines; range
[49] to accord or be accorded a specific position in an organization, society, or group
[50] (tr) to array (a set of objects) as a sequence, esp in terms of the natural arithmetic ordering of some measure of the elements to rank students by their test scores
[51] (intr) to be important; rate money ranks low in her order of priorities
[52] mainly US to take precedence or surpass in rank the colonel ranks at this camp
[53] showing vigorous and profuse growth rank weeds
[54] highly offensive or disagreeable, esp in smell or taste
[55] (prenominal) complete or absolute; utter a rank outsider
[56] coarse or vulgar; gross his language was rank

Words related to Ranking

regard, list, rate, put, estimate, include, establish, stand, locate, grade, tab, array, fix, dispose, pigeonhole, assort, valuate, peg, sort, evaluate

Words nearby Ranking

rankin, rankin, jeanette, rankine, rankine cycle, rankine scale, ranking, ranking member, rankism, rankle, rankshift, ransack

Origin of Ranking

11560–70; < French ranc (noun, obsolete), Old French renc, ranc, rang row, line < Germanic, akin to ring1

Other words from Ranking

rank·less , adjective
un·ranked , adjective

Word origin for Ranking

Old English ranc straight, noble; related to Old Norse rakkr upright, Dutch, Swedish rank tall and thin, weak

Synonyms for Ranking

establish, estimate, include, list, put, rate, regard, align, arrange, array, assign, assort, class, dispose, evaluate, fix, grade, judge, locate, marshal, order, peg, pigeonhole, place, position, range, settle, sort, tab, typecast, valuate, value, button down, give precedence, place in formation, put away, put down as, put down for, put in line, size up