rate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
horology
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
nautical
pets
racing
sports
transport
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: rates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The worth of something; value.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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%.
gloss: Speed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The relative speed of change or progress.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.
gloss: The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He asked quite a rate to take me to the airport.
gloss: A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Postal rates here are low.
gloss: A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We pay an hourly rate of between $10 – $15 per hour depending on qualifications and experience.
gloss: Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I hardly have enough left every month to pay the rates.
gloss: A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This textbook is first-rate.
gloss: Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The one right feeble through the evil rate / Of food which in her duress she had found.
gloss: Order; arrangement.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: Thus sat they all around in seemly rate.
gloss: Ratification; approval.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
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.
gloss: The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
gloss: To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She is rated fourth in the country.
gloss: To evaluate or estimate the value of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They rate his talents highly.
To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible.
gloss: To consider or regard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He rated this book brilliant.
gloss: To deserve; to be worth.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
A few things DO work in Too Outrageous!, though I am not sure they rate the price of admission.
gloss: To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The transformer is rated at 10 watts.
gloss: To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
gloss: To like; to think highly of.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: The customers don't rate the new burgers.
gloss: To take action to slow down the pace of the horse one is riding.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To have position (in a certain class).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world.
He rates as the best cyclist in the country.
gloss: To have value or standing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This last performance of hers didn't rate very high with the judges.
gloss: To ratify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to rate the truce
gloss: To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: 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
bitrate
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
countrate
crime rate
crude birth rate
crude death rate
cut-rate
data rate
data transfer rate
death rate
discount rate
economy rate
eigenrate
erythrocyte sedimentation rate
exchange rate risk
excursion rate
fallrate
fatality rate
fertility rate
fifth rate
fifth-rate
fillrate
first rate
first-rate
flat-rate
flat rate tax
floating rate
flowrate
fourth-rate
fourth rate
frame rate
going rate
half-rate
hashrate
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
midrate
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
ratebuster
rate-buster
rate card
rate constant
ratee
rate equation
rateless
rate limit
rate limiter
rate limiting
ratemaker
ratemaking
ratemeter
rate of climb
rate-of-climb indicator
rate of climb indicator
rate of exchange
rate of return
rate of speed
ratepayer
ratepaying
rate sheet
rate tart
reaction rate constant
red circle rate
refresh rate
required run raten
respiratory rate
roll rate
run-rate
run rate
runrate
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
transrate
underrate
utilization rate
wheeze rate
winrate
workrate
zero-rate
unrate
uprate
derate
disrate
downrate
misrate
outrate
overrate
ratability
rateable
rating
rerate
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