# rate
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: rāt, IPA: /ɹeɪt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪt

### Etymology 1

From Middle English rate, from Old French rate, from Medieval Latin rata, from Latin prō ratā parte (“according to a fixed part”), from ratus (“fixed”), from rērī (“think, deem, judge, estimate", originally "reckon, calculate”).

#### Noun

rate (countable and uncountable, plural rates)
* (obsolete) The worth of something; value. [15th–19th centuries]
** c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.
** 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC: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. [from 15th c.]
** 1979 December 29, Cindy Stein, “Queers in America's Living Rooms”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 10:Negative responses to this program were being received by the office of the National Gay Task Force at the rate of ten to one.
** 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8837, page 74: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%.
    At the height of his powers, he was producing pictures at the rate of four a year.
* Speed. [from 17th c.]
    The car was speeding down here at a hell of a rate.
** 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:Many of the horse could not march at that rate, nor come up soon enough.
* The relative speed of change or progress. [from 18th c.]
    The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.
* The price of (an individual) thing; cost. [from 16th c.]
    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. [from 16th c.]
    Postal rates here are low.
* A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
    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. [from 17th c.]
    I hardly have enough left every month to pay the rates.
* (nautical) A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
    This textbook is first-rate.
* (obsolete) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:The one right feeble through the evil rate / Of food which in her duress she had found.
* (obsolete, uncountable) Order; arrangement.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Thus sat they all around in seemly rate.
* (obsolete) Ratification; approval.
** 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.
* (horology) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
    daily rate; hourly rate; etc.

##### Hyponyms

* birth rate
* birthrate
* book rate
* call money rate
* cyclic rate
* exchange rate
* failure rate
* flat rate
* growth rate
* hash rate
* high-burden-rate
* interest rate
* key rate
* policy interest rate
* policy rate
* prime rate
* rate of interest
* slew rate
* time rate
* unemployment rate
* water-rate

##### Derived terms

* accident rate
* adiabatic lapse rate
* age standardized rate
* air kerma rate
* asking rate
* at any rate
* at a rate of knots
* attack rate
* at this rate
* bank rate
* basal metabolic rate
* base rate
* base rate fallacy
* basic rate interface
* basic reproduction rate
* basic reproductive rate
* birthrate
* bit rate
* blue circle rate
* book of rates
* bounce rate
* burn rate
* buyrate
* call rate
* capacity utilization rate
* case fatality rate
* church rate
* churn rate
* clearance rate
* click-through rate
* climb rate
* clock rate
* conversion rate
* crime rate
* crude birth rate
* crude death rate
* cut-rate
* data rate
* data transfer rate
* death rate
* discount rate
* economy rate
* erythrocyte sedimentation rate
* exchange rate risk
* excursion rate
* fatality rate
* fertility rate
* fifth rate
* fifth-rate
* first-rate
* first rate
* flat-rate
* flat rate tax
* floating rate
* fourth-rate
* fourth rate
* frame rate
* going rate
* half-rate
* heart rate
* heart rate monitor
* infant mortality rate
* interest rate guarantee
* interest rate swap
* lapse rate
* Lombard rate
* man-rate
* markup rate
* mate's rate
* mates' rates
* metabolic rate
* mill rate
* multirate
* natural increase rate
* net run rate
* Nyquist rate
* octal data rate
* open rate
* over-rate
* over rate
* penalty rate
* percentage rate
* piece rate
* poor rate
* positivity rate
* postage rate
* premium-rate telephone number
* primary rate interface
* rack rate
* rate-buster
* rate constant
* rate equation
* rate limit
* rate limiter
* rate limiting
* rate of climb
* rate-of-climb indicator
* rate of climb indicator
* rate of exchange
* rate of return
* rate of speed
* rate tart
* reaction rate constant
* red circle rate
* refresh rate
* required run rate
* respiratory rate
* roll rate
* run-rate
* run rate
* second-rate
* second rate
* sed rate
* single data rate
* sixth-rate
* sixth rate
* strain rate
* strike rate
* tax rate
* teaser rate
* teledensity rate
* tenth-rate
* third-rate
* third rate
* third-rate, third rate
* time-of-use rates
* transfer rate
* utilization rate
* wheeze rate
* winrate
* zero-rate

##### Translations

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##### References

* rate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

#### Verb

rate (third-person singular simple present rates, present participle rating, simple past and past participle rated)
* (transitive) To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
    She is rated fourth in the country.
* (transitive) To evaluate or estimate the value of.
    They rate his talents highly.
** 1661, Robert South, False Foundations Removed (sermon)
    To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible.
* (transitive) To consider or regard.
    He rated this book brilliant.
* (transitive) To deserve; to be worth.
    The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.
** 1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 101:
    Only two assistant district attorneys rate corner offices, and Mandelbaum wasn't one of them.
** 1987 December 6, Paul Vincent Leone, “Too, Too Outrageous!”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 21, page 7:A few things DO work in Too Outrageous!, though I am not sure they rate the price of admission.
* (transitive) To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
    The transformer is rated at 10 watts.
* (transitive, chiefly British) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
* (transitive, informal) To like; to think highly of.
    The customers don't rate the new burgers.
* (intransitive) To have position (in a certain class).
    She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world.
    He rates as the best cyclist in the country.
* (intransitive) To have value or standing.
    This last performance of hers didn't rate very high with the judges.
* (transitive) To ratify.
** [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:to rate the truceThe spelling has been modernized.
* To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.

##### Synonyms

* (have position in a certain class): rank

##### Derived terms

* rating

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English raten (“to scold, chide”), from Old Norse hrata (“to refuse, reject, slight, find fault with”), from Proto-Germanic *hratōną (“to sway, shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krad- (“to swing”). Cognate with Swedish rata (“to reject, refuse, find fault, slight”), Norwegian rata (“to reject, cast aside”), Old English hratian (“to rush, hasten”).

#### Verb

rate (third-person singular simple present rates, present participle rating, simple past and past participle rated)
* (transitive) To berate, scold.
** 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John:Then rated they hym, and sayde: Thou arte hys disciple.
** c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy!
** 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 56, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC: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.
** 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 114: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: [...]
** a. 1692, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance:Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it.
** 1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume III (The Talisman), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, pages 103–104: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.
** 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “XV, Practical — Devotional”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):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.
** 1894, Stanley John Weyman, “III. Man and Wife”, in The Man in Black:The voice of someone rating the landlord in no measured terms became audible, the noise growing louder as the speaker mounted the stairs.
** 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 71: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.'

##### Translations
### Further reading

* “rate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “rate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “rate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* 'eart, Ater, Reta, aret, arte-, tare, tear, tera-

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From Latin rata, an abbreviation of (pro) rata.

### Noun

rate c (singular definite raten, plural indefinite rater)
* rate
* instalment (UK) or installment (US)

### Declension
#### Derived terms

* dødsrate
* fødselsrate

### Etymology 2

From English rate.

### Verb

rate (imperative rate, infinitive at rate, present tense rater, past tense ratede, perfect tense ratet)
* (informal or colloquial) to rate

#### Conjugation

activepassive
present
rater
rates
past
ratede
infinitive
rate
rates
imperative
rate
participle
present
past
ratet (auxiliary verb have)
gerund

### References

* “rate” in Den Danske Ordbog

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁat/

### Etymology 1

From Germanic, probably Dutch rate (literally “honeycomb”), as the cellular tissue of the spleen is said to resemble honeycomb, from Proto-Germanic *hrētō-, from Proto-Indo-European *kreh₁d-eh₂-.

#### Noun

rate f (plural rates)
* spleen

##### Derived terms

* ne pas se fouler la rate

### Etymology 2

From rat +‎ -e.

#### Noun

rate f (plural rates)
* female equivalent of rat; female rat

##### Derived terms

* se mettre la rate au court-bouillon

#### Verb

rate
* inflection of rater:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* ↑ Auguste Brachet (1873) Etymological Dictionary of the French Language, Oxford: Clarendon Press

### Further reading

* “rate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* âtre, tare, taré

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aːtə

### Verb

rate
* inflection of raten:
** first-person singular present
** singular imperative
    Rate mal, wer gerade gekommen ist! - Guess who's just arrived.
* first/third-person singular subjunctive I of raten

## Haitian Creole
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɣate/

### Etymology 1

From French rareté.

#### Noun

rate
* shortage, scarcity

### Etymology 2

From French rater.

#### Verb

rate
* to miss

### References

* Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

## Interlingua
### Noun

rate (plural rates)
* A raft.

## Italian
### Noun

rate f
* plural of rata

### Anagrams

* arte, atre, erta, etra, retà, tare, trae

## Japanese
### Romanization

rate
* Rōmaji transcription of ラテ

## Ladin
### Verb

rate
* first-person singular present indicative of rater
* first-person singular present subjunctive of rater
* third-person singular present subjunctive of rater
* third-person plural present subjunctive of rater

## Latin
### Adjective

rate
* vocative masculine singular of ratus

### Noun

rate
* ablative singular of ratis

## Makasar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈratɛ]

### Adverb

rate (Lontara spelling ᨑᨈᨙ)
* above
    Antonym: rawa

## Norman
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

rate f (plural rates)
* (Jersey, anatomy) spleen

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin (pro) rata.

### Noun

rate m (definite singular raten, indefinite plural rater, definite plural ratene)
* rate
* instalment (UK) or installment (US)
    månedlige rater - monthly instalments

#### Derived terms

* dødsrate
* fødselsrate

### References

* “rate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin (pro) rata.

### Noun

rate m (definite singular raten, indefinite plural ratar, definite plural ratane)
* rate
* instalment (UK) or installment (US)
    månadlege ratar - monthly instalments

#### Derived terms

* dødsrate
* fødselsrate

### References

* “rate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Verb

rate
* inflection of ratar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

rate (Cyrillic spelling рате)
* vocative singular of rat

### Noun

rate (Cyrillic spelling рате)
* inflection of rata:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural