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Scoring vs Ranking - What's the difference?

scoring | ranking |

As adjectives the difference between scoring and ranking

is that scoring is of something or someone that scores while ranking is having a specified rank.

As nouns the difference between scoring and ranking

is that scoring is the process of keeping score in a sport or contest while ranking is one’s relative placement in a list.

As verbs the difference between scoring and ranking

is that scoring is present participle of lang=en while ranking is present participle of lang=en.

scoring

English

Adjective

  • Of something or someone that scores.
  • The highest scoring team will win the match.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of keeping score in a sport or contest.
  • The scoring of a tennis match is overseen by a single referee.
  • The process of winning points in a sport or contest.
  • Scoring a basket in basketball is worth two or three points.
  • The action of scratching paper or other material to make it easier to fold.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • ranking

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (in combination) having a specified rank
  • superior
  • As the ranking officer, Sergeant Taylor took charge of the investigation.
  • *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.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One’s relative placement in a list.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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