Pronunciations
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/ɹeɪt/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
Noun
The worth of something; value.
Usage- Countable
- Obsolete
- Uncountable
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There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.
His natural parts were not of the first rate, but he had greatly improved them by a learned education.
The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
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At the height of his powers, he was producing pictures at the rate of four a year.
Negative responses to this program were being received by the office of the National Gay Task Force at the rate of ten to one.
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In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
Speed.
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The car was speeding down here at a hell of a rate.
Many of the horse could not march at that rate, nor come up soon enough.
The relative speed of change or progress.
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The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.
The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
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He asked quite a rate to take me to the airport.
A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
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Postal rates here are low.
A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
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We pay an hourly rate of between $10 – $15 per hour depending on qualifications and experience.
Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
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I hardly have enough left every month to pay the rates.
A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
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This textbook is first-rate.
Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.
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- Obsolete
- Uncountable
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The one right feeble through the evil rate / Of food which in her duress she had found.
Order; arrangement.
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Thus sat they all around in seemly rate.
Ratification; approval.
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- Obsolete
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c. 1610s, George Chapman, Caesar and Pompey Tis offerd, Sir, 'boue the rate of Caesar In other men, but in what I approue Beneath his merits: which I will not faile T'enforce at full to Pompey, nor forget In any time the gratitude of my seruice.
The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
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daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
Verb
To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
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She is rated fourth in the country.
To evaluate or estimate the value of.
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They rate his talents highly.
To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible.
To consider or regard.
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He rated this book brilliant.
To deserve; to be worth.
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The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.
Only two assistant district attorneys rate corner offices, and Mandelbaum wasn't one of them.
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A few things DO work in Too Outrageous!, though I am not sure they rate the price of admission.
To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
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The transformer is rated at 10 watts.
To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
Usage- UK usage
- Transitive
To like; to think highly of.
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The customers don't rate the new burgers.
To take action to slow down the pace of the horse one is riding.
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Throughout the first turn is where the jockey rates the horse if the need arises. Rating a horse is where you keep it from putting out too much too soon.
To have position (in a certain class).
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She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world.
He rates as the best cyclist in the country.
To have value or standing.
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This last performance of hers didn't rate very high with the judges.
To ratify.
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to rate the truce
To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.
Usage- Transitive
Verb
To berate, scold.
Usage- Obsolete
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Then rated they hym, and sayde: Thou arte hys disciple.
Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy!
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Andronicus the Emperour, finding by chance in his pallace certaine principall men very earnestly disputing against Lapodius about one of our points of great importance, taunted and rated them very bitterly, and threatened if they gave not over, he would cause them to be cast into the river.
So when he aroſe, he getteth him a grievous Crab-tree cudgel, and goes down into the Dungeon to them; and there firſt falls to Rateing of them, as if they were dogs: [...]
Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it.
He beheld him, his head still muffled in the veil [...] couching, like a rated hound, upon the threshold of the chapel; but, apparently, without venturing to cross it: […] a man borne down and crushed to the earth by the burden of his inward feelings.
The successful monk, on the morrow morning, hastens home to Ely [...]. The successful monk, arriving at Ely, is rated for a goose and an owl; is ordered back to say that Elmset was the place meant.
The voice of someone rating the landlord in no measured terms became audible, the noise growing louder as the speaker mounted the stairs.
Jyne took the baby, and began to rate the mother mildly for `walkin' seven mile ser soon', but Jyne's mother interposed with a recital of `wot I dun w'en Jun' (John) `wur two days old.'
Verb
To cause (hay, hemp, flax, etc) to decay (whether in an injurious way, or—as retting—in a useful way) by exposure to weather, particularly wetness.
Usage- UK usage
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From the "line pit" it [flax] is carried to the “RATING GROUND;" - a piece of unbroken aftergrass, where the sheaflets are untied, and the flax spread thin upon the grass. It is calculated, that a full crop ought to cover as much ground as it grew upon. Here it lies until it be sufficiently "rated;" namely, until the more woodlike substance of the stems will separate […]
[…] hay when it is cocked either wette or greene, for then sure it is to be rated, and beinge rated looseth both the goode smell and goode taste; and likewise the colour, as yow may perceive by the blackenesse of the cocke on the outside; for if the[…]
"Frodingham of Roberte Westabie, for rateing hempe in Skinner Beck, contrairie to paine." - Kirton-in-Lindsey Fine Roll, 1630.
Noun
a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit
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they traveled at a rate of 55 miles per hour
the rate of change was faster than expected
amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis
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a 10-minute phone call at that rate would cost $5
the relative speed of progress or change
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he lived at a fast pace
he works at a great rate
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the pace of events accelerated
a quantity or amount or measure considered as a proportion of another quantity or amount or measure
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the literacy rate
the retention rate
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the dropout rate
Verb
assign a rank or rating to
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how would you rank these students?
The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide
be worthy of or have a certain rating
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This bond rates highly
estimate the value of
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How would you rate his chances to become President?
Gold was rated highly among the Romans