Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of the highest rank; preeminent.
- n. A listing of items in a group, such as schools or sports teams, according to a system of rating or a record of performance.
- n. A position in such a list.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of one who ranks.
Wiktionary
- adj. in combination having a specified rank
- adj. superior
- n. One’s relative placement in a list.
- v. present participle of rank.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a higher rank
- n. position on a scale in relation to others in a sport
Examples
“Shadows of Ecstasy was among the top three and The Greater Trumps among the bottom four, but the difference in ranking is so subtle I am not sure I myself can always detect it.”
“I think here his ranking is also due to what was accomplished domestically on his watch, which was impressive, whether or not it really happened because of him.”
“+ importance of links in ranking is declining -- New sources of data and new features that Yahoo! has built and developed have made our ranking algorithm better.”
“The 37th place ranking is often cited in today's overhaul debate, even though, in some ways, the U.S. actually ranked a lot higher.”
“Assuming the ranking from the link is still valid.”
“If your ranking is low and – Heaven forbid – someone with the same name (and a less stellar reputation) is ranked above you, you can adjust your ranking by blogging or twittering for yourself and others.”
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“We feel as the No. 1 other teams are going to come after us, but no matter what our ranking is we were the Pac-10 champions last year so they'll still come after us," Oregon linebacker Casey Matthews said.”
The Huffington Post: Oregon Ducks Dominate UCLA Bruins 60-13
“As far as the world ranking is concerned, yes, I'm not ranked No 1 in the world," Woods said.”
The Washington Post: Tiger Woods tumbles from golf's No. 1 ranking as Lee Westwood moves up
“E.g., if the correct ranking is A B C D E, and you know A B C D, but aren't sure about E, you can score 0, 1, 2, 3, or 5 depending on where you put E.”
Rank-order Multiple Choice, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The movie made $27.5 million, again ranking No. 1 at the box office in its opening weekend.”
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Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
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