Ranking vs Position - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between ranking and position is that ranking is one’s relative placement in a list while position is a place or location. As verbs the difference between ranking and position is that ranking is while position is to put into place. As an adjective ranking is (in combination) having a specified rank.
ranking
Adjective
(en adjective )
(in combination) having a specified rank
superior
- As the ranking officer, Sergeant Taylor took charge of the investigation.
*2002 , , 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.
Noun
(en noun )
One’s relative placement in a list.
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position
Noun
(en noun ) (abbreviated as posish )
A place or location.
A post of employment; a job.
A status or rank.
- Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.
An opinion, stand or stance.
- My position on this issue is unchanged.
A posture.
- Stand in this position , with your arms at your side.
(team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- Stop running all over the field and play your position !
(finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm or institution.
- Strong earnings have bolstered the company’s financial position .
(arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error .
(chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
Derived terms
* anatomical position
* assume the position
* body position
* bubble position
* closed position
* cowgirl position
* developmental position
* eccentric position
* emergency position indicating radio beacon
* fetal position
* fielding position
* Fowler’s position
* hinge position
* human position
* lithotomy position
* long position
* lotus position
* midsinoary position
* naked position
* net position
* neutral position
* occlusal position
* open position
* overnight position
* pole position
* positional
* position effect
* position limit
* position paper
* position sense
* position trader
* position trading
* preferred position
* prone position
* protrusive position
* qualifying position
* recovery position
* reposition
* sacroanterior position
* sex position
* short position
* Sims’ position
* statutory position
* take a position
* Trendelenburg position
* Yoga position
Verb
(en verb )
To put into place.
* 26 June 2012 , Simon Bowers in The Guardian, Tax crackdowns threaten Channel Islands’ haven status [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/26/tax-crackdowns-threaten-channel-islands]
- While other small nations with large banking sectors, such as Iceland and Ireland, have been undone by their reckless lending practices, the debt-free Channel Islands have always positioned themselves as dependable repositories of riches.
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