Rankling vs Ranking - What's the difference?
rankling | ranking |
A sensation that rankles.
* (Walt Whitman)
(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.
As nouns the difference between rankling and ranking
is that rankling is a sensation that rankles while ranking is ranking, table.As a verb rankling
is .rankling
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women, / I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid
ranking
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(wikipedia ranking)Adjective
(en adjective)- As the ranking officer, Sergeant Taylor took charge of the investigation.