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As verbs the difference between rating and index

is that rating is present participle of lang=en while index is to arrange an index for something, especially a long text.

As nouns the difference between rating and index

is that rating is a position on a scale while index is an alphabetical listing of items and their location.

As a proper noun Index is

a town in Washington.

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

    • Anagrams

    * *

    index

    English

    (wikipedia index)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
    • The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.
  • The index finger; the forefinger.
  • A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
  • (printing) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
  • That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants.
  • A sign; an indication; a token.
  • * Robert Louis Stevenson
    • His son's empty guffaws struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.
  • (linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
  • (economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
  • (science) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
  • (mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
  • (programming, computing) An integer or other key indicating the location of data e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
  • (computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
  • (obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * (index finger) arrow-finger, demonstrator, forefinger, index finger, insignitor, lickpot, pointling, showing finger, teacher * See also

    Derived terms

    * index locorum * index nominum * index rerum * index term * index verborum * indexic * indexical * indexless * price index * refractive index

    Related terms

    * indicate * indicator * indication * indicia

    References

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    See also

    * (alphabetical listing) table of contents

    Verb

    (es)
  • To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
  • To inventory, to take stock.

    • Derived terms

    * indexer

    External links

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    Anagrams

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