different between cranking vs ranking

English

Verb

cranking

1. present participle of crank

Noun

cranking (plural crankings)

1. The act by which something is cranked.
   • 1983, Operator's Manual: Truck Tractor, Line Haul, 50,000 GVWR, 6 x 4, M915

     The engine temperature warning lamp should illuminate when the starter button is depressed. Do not depress Engine Start button for more than 15 seconds with two minute intervals between crankings.

Anagrams

• rancking

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??ænk.??/
• Rhymes: -ænk??

Verb

ranking

1. present participle of rank

Adjective

ranking (comparative more ranking, superlative most ranking)

1. (in combination) Having a specified rank.
2. Superior in rank.
   • 2002, Stephen Tanner, 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.

Translations

Noun

ranking (plural rankings)

1. One’s relative placement in a list.

Descendants

Translations

Anagrams

• narking

Polish

Etymology

From English ranking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ran.k?ink/

Noun

ranking m inan

1. ranking

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) rankingowy

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English ranking.

Noun

ranking m (plural rankings)

1. ranking

   Synonym: clasificación