different between ranking vs tanking

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

English

Verb

tanking

1. present participle of tank

Noun

tanking (plural tankings)

1. A session of being immersed in a tank.
   • 1993, Virginia Medical Quarterly (volumes 120-121, page 44)

     The patient was treated with methylprednisolone, cyclophosphamide, and azathioprine, as well as burn center protocol care with daily tankings.