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Rating vs Checking - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between rating and checking

is that rating is while checking is .

As nouns the difference between rating and checking

is that rating is a position on a scale while checking is (ice hockey) the act of physically keeping an opposing player in check.

rating

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A position on a scale
  • An evaluation of status, especially of financial status
    • They have a poor credit rating .
  • A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.
    • He has a high chess rating .
  • (nautical) A seaman in a warship
  • *2014 , BBC News, Huge Russian warship fascinates French in Saint-Nazaire
  • *:Some 400 Russian ratings are living in the western French port, awaiting delivery of their controversial new command-and-control ship, the Vladivostok.
  • (nautical) The status of a seaman, corresponding to rank in officers.
  • * In the Royal Navy the ratings, in order, are:- ordinary seaman, able seaman, leading seaman, petty officer and chief petty officer

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    checking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (ice hockey) The act of physically keeping an opposing player in check.
  • (informal) A checking account.
    • Withdraw $5000 from checking and put it into savings.