Ranking vs Triage - What's the difference?
ranking | triage |
(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.
Assessment or sorting according to quality.
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* 2007 , Jeremy Harding, It Migrates to Them'', ''London Review of Books 29:5, p. 26,
(medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).
(computing, by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
To assess or sort according to quality or some other aspect.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 01, author=Linda Diebel, title=Existential crises and a rage to save the Liberals, work=Toronto Star
, passage=Then, over 2001 and '02, he laid off 150 employees at MGI Software, a company he'd first "triaged " as a consultant for NPV Associates with his partner and fellow UCC alumnus Henry Eaton, before stepping in as CEO. Firing 30 per cent of the work force was necessary to save the company, insists NPV principal partner Eaton. }}
As nouns the difference between ranking and triage
is that ranking is ranking, table while triage is assessment or sorting according to quality.As a verb triage is
to assess or sort according to quality or some other aspect.ranking
English
(wikipedia ranking)Adjective
(en adjective)- As the ranking officer, Sergeant Taylor took charge of the investigation.
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----triage
English
(wikipedia triage)Noun
(-)- [Mike Davis] notes that the 'late capitalist triage of humanity' has 'already taken place'.
Verb
(triag)citation