ranking

«ranking» in Mova's school dictionary: A position in a list that shows how good or important… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a ranking, rankings); adjective (ranking); verb form (rank, ranks, ranked, ranking)

meaning for a pupil

1) A position in a list that shows how good or important someone or something is compared with others: «a world ranking of 5». tree →

2) (rankings) The list itself: «the tennis rankings», «school league rankings». tree →

3) (adjective) Having a high or the highest position: «the ranking officer». tree →

4) (verb) Putting things in order: «Ranking your favourite foods is fun.» tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths and data lessons ranking means putting items in order (1st, 2nd, 3rd) by size or score; in sport and news rankings compare players, teams and schools. Phrases: «world ranking», «top ranking», «ranking list», «ranking order».

examples

• She is ranked number one in the world rankings. tree →
• Ranking the planets by size, Jupiter comes first. tree →
• Our team rose in the league rankings after three wins. tree →
• The ranking officer gave the orders. tree →
• We did a ranking of our favourite books from 1 to 10. tree →
• Websites appear in a ranking when you search online. tree →

note

Countable: ranking, rankings. Maths: ranking puts data in order; a tie can share a ranking (joint 2nd). Ranking from smallest to largest is «ascending order»; largest to smallest is «descending order». Rank 1 is the top, so a lower rank number means a better place.

In the corpora

• The wise lesson: you can love Shevchenko without ranking him above Shakespeare, and use numbers you can check instead of family legends.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ranking» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.