different between classification vs rating

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French classification

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?klæs?f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

classification (countable and uncountable, plural classifications)

1. The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN

     I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
     And there is also taxinomia a principle of 'classification' and ordered tabulation.
     Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
     Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

Derived terms

• classification scheme
• classification yard

Related terms

• class
• classic
• classify
• category
• categorize
• segment

Translations

Further reading

• classification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• classification in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• classification at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

classe +? -ification

Pronunciation

Noun

classification f (plural classifications)

1. classification

Further reading

• “classification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??e?t??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??e?t??/, [??e????]
• Rhymes: -e?t??

Verb

rating

1. present participle of rate

Noun

rating (plural ratings)

1. A position on a scale
2. An evaluation of status, especially of financial status

   They have a poor credit rating.

3. A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.

   He has a high chess rating.

4. A quantitative measure of the audience of a television program.
   • 1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, "Television and the Public Interest":

     A rating, at best, is an indication of how many people saw what you gave them.

5. (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.

6. (nautical) British An enlisted seaman not a commissioned officer or warrant officer.
   • In the Royal Navy the ratings, in order, are: ordinary seaman, able seaman, leading seaman, petty officer and chief petty officer.
   • Fifty officers and seven hundred and fifty ratings from the two British ships were picked up by the Japanese, together with the survivors from the Pope. –Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, vol. 4 of The Second World War (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950), p. 149.

Translations

Anagrams

• Gartin, Tigran, gratin, taring, tringa

Polish

Etymology

From English rating.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?j.tink/

Noun

rating m inan

1. (finance) credit rating
2. popularity rating (evaluation of status)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) ratingowy

Further reading

• rating in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• rating in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

rating m (plural ratings)

1. (nautical) class (of boat)
2. (television) popularity rating