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Listing vs Classification - What's the difference?

listing | classification |

As nouns the difference between listing and classification

is that listing is the action of the verb to list while classification is the act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc, according to some common relations or attributes.

As an adjective listing

is asking, as a price of real estate.

As a verb listing

is .

listing

English

Adjective

(-)
  • asking, as a price of real estate
  • What is this house's listing price?

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to list.
  • An entry in a list or directory.
  • Aardvaark Plumbing is the first listing in Yellow Pages.
  • (computing) A printout of a program or data set.
  • Print me a listing of the latest version.
  • A physical manifestation of a single item in a list; as a single twenty page (bound) listing .
  • Please pass me the second listing for the two story house, from that stack.

    Anagrams

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    classification

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1937-1952 , author=Jorge Luis Borges , title=Other Inquisitions citation , passage=On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a verfy fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.}}
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
  • I’m using mathesis' — a universal science of '''measurement''' and '''order''' …
    And there is also '''taxinomia''' a principle of ''''''classification'''''' and ordered '''tabulation'''.
    Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
    Western reason had entered the '
    age of judgement
    .

    Derived terms

    * classification scheme