rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rāt
ipa: /ɹeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: rates
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.
ref: 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]:
text: His natural parts were not of the first rate, but he had greatly improved them by a learned education.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The worth of something; value.
examples: text: At the height of his powers, he was producing pictures at the rate of four a year.
text: Negative responses to this program were being received by the office of the National Gay Task Force at the rate of ten to one.
ref: 1979 December 29, Cindy Stein, “Queers in America's Living Rooms”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 10:
text: 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%.
ref: 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
glosses: The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
examples: text: The car was speeding down here at a hell of a rate.
text: Many of the horse could not march at that rate, nor come up soon enough.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), 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: The Theater:
glosses: Speed.
examples: text: The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.
glosses: The relative speed of change or progress.
examples: text: He asked quite a rate to take me to the airport.
glosses: The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
examples: text: Postal rates here are low.
glosses: A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
examples: text: We pay an hourly rate of between $10 – $15 per hour depending on qualifications and experience.
glosses: A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
examples: text: I hardly have enough left every month to pay the rates.
glosses: Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
examples: text: This textbook is first-rate.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
examples: text: The one right feeble through the evil rate / Of food which in her duress she had found.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.
examples: text: Thus sat they all around in seemly rate.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Order; arrangement.
examples: 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.
glosses: Ratification; approval.
examples: text: daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
topics: hobbies
horology
lifestyle
glosses: The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
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 change
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
shrink rate
single data rate
sixth-rate
sixth rate
strain rate
strike rate
tax rate
teaser rate
teledensity rate
tenth-rate
third-rate
third rate
time-of-use rates
transfer rate
utilization rate
wheeze rate
winrate
zero-rate