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Ranking vs Positions - What's the difference?

ranking | positions |

As nouns the difference between ranking and positions

is that ranking is one’s relative placement in a list while positions is plural of lang=en.

As verbs the difference between ranking and positions

is that ranking is present participle of lang=en while positions is third-person singular of position.

As an adjective ranking

is having a specified rank.

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)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    positions

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (position)
    • ----