Rate
[reɪt] or [ret]
Definition
(noun.) amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis; 'a 10-minute phone call at that rate would cost $5'.
(noun.) a quantity or amount or measure considered as a proportion of another quantity or amount or measure; 'the literacy rate'; 'the retention rate'; 'the dropout rate'.
(noun.) a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit; 'they traveled at a rate of 55 miles per hour'; 'the rate of change was faster than expected'.
(verb.) assign a rank or rating to; 'how would you rank these students?'; 'The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide'.
(verb.) estimate the value of; 'How would you rate his chances to become President?'; 'Gold was rated highly among the Romans'.
(verb.) be worthy of or have a certain rating; 'This bond rates highly'.
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Definition
(v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.
(n.) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
(n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.
(n.) Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.
(n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.
(n.) Order; arrangement.
(n.) Ratification; approval.
(n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
(n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.
(n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.
(v. t.) To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.
(v. t.) To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.
(v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.
(v. t.) To ratify.
(v. i.) To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.
(v. i.) To make an estimate.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Standard, fixed measure.[2]. Cost, price.[3]. Worth, value, valuation, estimation, rank.[4]. Proportion, ratio, degree.[5]. Tax, assessment, impost, charge, duty.
v. a. [1]. Estimate, value, appraise, set a value on.[2]. Scold, chide, reprimand, berate.[3]. Abuse, vilify, defame.
Inputed by Laura
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Compute, calculate, estimate, value, scold, abuse, appraise,[See APPRAISE],[See COMPUTE_and_ABUSE]
SYN:Tax, impost, assessment, duty, standard, allowance, ratio, quota, worth, price,value,[See PRICE]
Typed by Belinda
Definition
v.t. to tax: to scold: to chide: to reprove.
n. a ratio or proportion: allowance: standard: value: price: the class of a ship and of seamen: movement as fast or slow: a tax.—v.t. to calculate: to estimate: to settle the relative rank scale or position of.—v.i. to make an estimate: to be placed in a certain class: to ratify.—ns. Rātabil′ity Rā′tableness quality of being ratable.—adj. Rā′table Rā′teable that may be rated or set at a certain value: subject to taxation.—adv. Rā′tably.—ns. Rāte′-book a book of valuations; Rāte′payer one who pays a local tax.—adj. Rāte′paying paying or relating to an assessed local tax.—ns. Rā′ter one who makes an estimate; Rāte′-tithe a tithe paid for sheep and cattle; Rā′ting a fixing of rates: classification according to rank or grade.—At any rate by any means; By no rate by no means.
Edited by Leah
Examples
- A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Upon the main caravan routes the chief towns rose to a certain second-rate prosperity, and foremost among them were Medina and Mecca. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They would say that, at any rate, if they did not perceive the drift of the question. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Where the market rate of interest is five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In a country where the ordinary rate of clear profit is eight or ten per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Our rate at present is fifty-three and a half miles an hour. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- At any rate, it was more like a hearse than any thing else, though to speak by the card, it was a gondola. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The next matter was the financing of the trip, about which Mr. Edison asked in a tentative way about the rates to the East. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- What we pay rates and taxes for I don't know, when any ruffian can come in and break one's goods. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It should cut down the rates for using wire and cable systems, and ultimately place the means of communicating directly with any one on land or sea within the reach of every man. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- These ordinary or average rates may be called the natural rates of wages, profit and rent, at the time and place in which they commonly prevail. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- That rates of toll have been imposed on steam carriages which would prohibit them being used on several lines of roads, were such charges permitted to remain unaltered. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The book of rates is extremely comprehensive, and enumerates a great variety of articles, many of them little used, and, therefore, not well known. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I think the Church-rates guesses who I am, and I know the Water-works does, because I drew a tooth of his when I first came down here. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He rated him as a first-class hand; and yet he felt a secret dislike to him,--the native antipathy of bad to good. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Lord Molyneux shortly took his seat by my side, and I rated him about Mrs. Fitzroy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- There are four motors, two to each truck, each rated at 360 horse power. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But an inner strenuousness was preying upon an outer symmetry, and they rated his look as singular. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The early arc lamps were rated to require 9 to 10 amperes of current, at 45 volts pressure each, receiving which they were estimated to give 2000 c. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There was a smart young Frenchwoman waiting in Nugent's ante-room, and we rated him most unmercifully about her. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But constancy, chastity, good sense, and good nature, were not rated, because they would not bear the charge of collecting. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- There is nothing the lower orders like better than a little downright good-humoured rating. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I have not means to secure the good-will of a Christian beggar, were he rating it at a single penny. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I am sure his sisters, rating him as they do, must have thought it so, supposing he had meant nothing. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Typist: Randall