Rating vs Dating - What's the difference?
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A position on a scale
An evaluation of status, especially of financial status
A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.
(nautical) A seaman in a warship
*2014 , BBC News,
*: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
A form of romantic courtship typically between two individuals with the aim of assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse. The result of dating may at any time lead to friendship, any level of intimate relationship, marriage, or no relation.
An estimation of the age of an artifact, biological vestige, linguistic usage, etc.
* 1922' (Jul), , "Some aspects of the use of the annual rings of trees in climatic study". ''The Scientific Monthly'' ' 15 (1): 5-21.
* 1991 , Onno Ydema, Carpets and Their Dating in Netherlandish Paintings, 1540-1700 ,
* 1998 , Niels Lynnerup, The Greenland Norse , footnote,
* 2007 , Anatoly Fomenko, History: Fiction or Science?: Chronology 1 ,
The setting of a date on which an event or transaction is to take place or take effect.
* 1967 , Delbert J. Duncan, Charles Franklin Phillips, Retailing: Principles and Methods ,
* 1999 , Alexander M. Hicks, Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism ,
* 2008 , R. Charles Moyer, James R. McGuigan, William J. Kretlow, Contemporary Financial Management ,
As verbs the difference between rating and dating
is that rating is while dating is .As nouns the difference between rating and dating
is that rating is a position on a scale while dating is a form of romantic courtship typically between two individuals with the aim of assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse the result of dating may at any time lead to friendship, any level of intimate relationship, marriage, or no relation.rating
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- They have a poor credit rating .
- He has a high chess rating .
Huge Russian warship fascinates French in Saint-Nazaire
Anagrams
* *dating
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Noun
(en noun)- A comparison in seven sequoias between very careful counting and accurate dating in 2,000 years shows an average counting error of 35 years, which is only 1.7 per cent.
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- Finally, with the exception of the rug in the paintings of Willem Duyster, the datings of both groups approximately agree;
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- The results almost always used to illustrate this are the datings of human bones from the Sct. Drotten Church in Lund.
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- Different dendrochronological datings' have different veracity. The veracity of a dendrochronological ' dating depends on the certainty of the collations on the dendrochronological scale.
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- But C.O.D. datings are relatively rare. They are so disliked by buyers that they are used by sellers only when the latter are quite uncertain of a buyer's ability and willingness to pay.
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- Pressure from unemployment for retrenchment is evident for the "early" as well as "best" datings' of retrenchment. However, when retrenchment '''datings''' lean toward earlier years, unemployment is not the preeminent factor among the various accelerators and decelerators of retrenchment that it is for the more balanced "best" '''datings''' of Table 7.2 (or that it is, as we shall see, for the "late" ' datings ).
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- Seasonal datings are special credit terms that are sometimes offered to retailers when sales are highly concentrated in one or more periods during the year.