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Cranking vs Ranking - What's the difference?

cranking | ranking |

As nouns the difference between cranking and ranking

is that cranking is the act by which something is cranked while ranking is ranking, table.

As a verb cranking

is .

cranking

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is cranked.
  • * 1983 , Operator's Manual: Truck Tractor, Line Haul, 50,000 GVWR, 6 x 4, M915
  • The engine temperature warning lamp should illuminate when the starter button is depressed. Do not depress Engine Start button for more than 15 seconds with two minute intervals between crankings .

    ranking

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (in combination) having a specified rank
  • superior
  • As the ranking officer, Sergeant Taylor took charge of the investigation.
  • *2002 , , 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.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One’s relative placement in a list.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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