Rating
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A position on a scale An evaluation of status, especially of financial status A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something. A seaman in a warship The status of a seaman, corresponding to rank in officers.
Example sentence: Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.
Evaluation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase or bonus, or a summary of a particular situation.A completion of a mathematical operation; a valuation.Determination of the value of a variable or expression.
Example sentence: If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors.