Listing vs Index - What's the difference?
listing | index |
asking, as a price of real estate
The action of the verb to list.
An entry in a list or directory.
(computing) A printout of a program or data set.
A physical manifestation of a single item in a list; as a single twenty page (bound) listing .
An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
The index finger; the forefinger.
A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
(printing) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
* Arbuthnot
A sign; an indication; a token.
* Robert Louis Stevenson
(linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
(economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
(science) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
(mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
(programming, computing) An integer or other key indicating the location of data e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
(computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
(obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
To inventory, to take stock.
As nouns the difference between listing and index
is that listing is the action of the verb to list while index is index.As an adjective listing
is asking, as a price of real estate.As a verb listing
is .listing
English
Adjective
(-)- What is this house's listing price?
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Aardvaark Plumbing is the first listing in Yellow Pages.
- Print me a listing of the latest version.
- Please pass me the second listing for the two story house, from that stack.
Anagrams
* * *index
English
(wikipedia index)Noun
(en-noun)- The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.
- Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants.
- His son's empty guffaws struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.
- (Shakespeare)