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Ranging vs Ranking - What's the difference?

ranging | ranking |

As verbs the difference between ranging and ranking

is that ranging is present participle of lang=en while ranking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between ranging and ranking

is that ranging is act of one who ranges while ranking is one’s relative placement in a list.

As an adjective ranking is

having a specified rank.

ranging

English

Verb

(head)
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=Kevin Heng
    • , title= Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily? , volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Act of one who ranges.
  • * 1999 , Patricia Riles Wickman, The Tree that Bends

    • ranking

    English

    (wikipedia 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)

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