Cranking vs Ranking - What's the difference?
cranking | ranking |
The act by which something is cranked.
* 1983 , Operator's Manual: Truck Tractor, Line Haul, 50,000 GVWR, 6 x 4, M915
(in combination) having a specified rank
superior
*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.
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 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
English
(wikipedia ranking)Adjective
(en adjective)- As the ranking officer, Sergeant Taylor took charge of the investigation.