Rate

Noun

 * 1)  The estimated worth of something; value.
 * 2) * 1599, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, V.3:
 * There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.
 * 1) The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
 * At the height of his powers, he was producing pictures at the rate of four a year.
 * 1) The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
 * He asked quite a rate to take me to the airport.
 * 1) A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
 * Postal rates here are low.
 * 1) Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
 * I hardly have enough left every month to pay the rates.
 * 1) Speed.
 * The car was speeding down here at a hell of a rate.
 * 1) The relative speed of change or progress.
 * The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.
 * 1)  A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
 * This textbook is first rate.

Derived terms

 * at any rate
 * flat rate
 * interest rate
 * mortality rate
 * failure rate
 * rate limiting

Verb

 * 1)  To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
 * She is rated fourth in the country.
 * 1)  To evaluate or estimate the value of.
 * They rate his talents highly.
 * 1)  To consider or regard.
 * He rated this book brilliant.
 * 1)  To deserve; to be worth.
 * The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.
 * 1) * 1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 101:
 * Only two assistant district attorneys rate corner offices, and Mandelbaum wasn't one of them.
 * 1)  To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
 * The transformer is rated at 10 watts.
 * 1)  (chiefly ) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
 * 2)   To like; to think highly of.
 * The customers don't rate the new burgers.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  To have value or standing.
 * This last performance of her's didn't rate very high with the judges.

Derived terms

 * rating

Verb

 * 1)  To berate, scold.
 * 2) * 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John IX:
 * Then rated they hym, and sayde: Thou arte hys disciple.
 * 1) * 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.56:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional
 * 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.

Adjectives for Rate
prevailing; reasonable; high; proud; annual; special; low; surprising; respectable; comparable; amazing; expense; balancing; unusual; moderate; stipulated; incredible; differential; fluctuating; minimum; unconscionable; interest; usurious; legal; astounding; tremendous; alarming; reckless; standard; present; noble; rapid; overwhelming; attractive; fearful; death; furious; marvelous; trifling; enormous; modest; prodigious; nominal; unvarying; right; sensible; economical; remarkable; daily; weekly; monthly; thrifty; considerate; extreme; agreeable.

Verbs for Rate
apply—; assess—; assign—; calculate—; command—; compute—; demand—; deprecate—; determine—; estimate—; fix—; impose—; proportion—; reduce—; slash—; stabilize—; standardize—; subject to—; tax —; —appraises; —corresponds to; —evaluates; —fluctuates; —prevails; —skyrockets; —varies.

Adverbs for Rate
soundly; harshly; disagreeably; furiously; wrathfully; discordantly; scorchingly.

Thesaurus
VAT, abuse, account, ad valorem duty, admonish, alcohol tax, alphabetize, amount, amusement tax, analyze, antecede, anyhow, anyway, apportion, appraise, appreciate, arithmetical proportion, arrange, assay, assess, assessment on default, assort, at all events, at any rate, bank rate, bark at, bawl out, be deserving, be entitled to, be regarded, be thought of, be worthy of, berate, betongue, blacken, break down, bring to book, calculate, calibrate, caliper, call, call to account, capital gains tax, capitation, capitation tax, career, caste, catalog, categorize, censure, charge, chastise, check a parameter, chew out, chide, class, classification, classify, clip, codify, come before, come first, compensatory interest, compound interest, compute, condition, continued fraction, conversion factor, corporation tax, correct, cost, count, customs, customs duty, damage, death duty, death tax, decrease, deserve, dial, digest, discount rate, divide, doomage, dress down, duty, earn, echelon, estate duty, estate tax, estimate, evaluate, evaluation, excess profits tax, excise, excise tax, execrate, exorbitant interest, expenditure, expense, export tax, face, face value, fair-trade, fathom, federal tax, fee, figure, file, fix, footing, form an estimate, fraction, front, fulminate against, gabelle, gait, gauge, geometric ratio, gift tax, give an appreciation, go ahead of, go before, go in advance, grade, graduate, gross interest, group, guess, harmonic proportion, have priority, have words with, head, head tax, head the table, head up, hierarchy, import tax, improper fraction, in any case, in any event, income tax, increase, index, inheritance tax, interest, interest rate, internal revenue tax, jaw, judge, kick off, kind, land tax, lead, lead off, lecture, lick, liquor tax, list, load with reproaches, local tax, lucrative interest, luxury tax, make an estimation, mark, market value, measure, mensurate, merit, mete, meter, mortgage points, net interest, net worth, notwithstanding, nuisance tax, number, objurgate, order, outrank, pace, par value, parcel, penal interest, pennyworth, percent, percentage, personal property tax, pigeonhole, place, plumb, poll, poll tax, position, power structure, precede, precedence, premium, price, price of money, price tag, prize, probe, progress, property tax, property-increment tax, proportion, protective tariff, provincial tax, quantify, quantize, quota, quote a price, quotum, rag, rail, rail at, range, rank, rate of interest, rates, rating, ratio, rave against, rebuke, reckon, reduce, regardless, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, revenue tariff, revile, rule of three, sales tax, salt tax, scale, school tax, scold, score, set at, set down, set straight, severance tax, simple interest, size, size up, sort, sound, span, spank, specific duty, speed, sphere, stage, stand first, standing, state tax, station, status, step, straighten out, stride, subdivide, survey, tab, tabulate, take a reading, take down, take precedence, take to task, tariff, tariff duty, telephone tax, thunder against, toll, tongue-lash, travel, tread, triangulate, type, upbraid, use tax, usher in, usury, valorize, valuate, valuation, value, value added tax, value received, velocity, vilify, vituperate, weigh, window tax, worth, yell at, yelp at

Etymology 1
From, from rata:, from  undefined:, from ratus:, from reri:.

Etymology 2
Origin unknown. Compare arate:, rehete:.

Noun

 * Arabic: معدل
 * Chinese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 割合


 * Norwegian: hyppighet, ,
 * Polish: tempo
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: rată
 * Russian: пропорция,, , ,
 * Spanish:


 * Czech:
 * Japanese: 割合; 利率


 * Polish: stawka
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Japanese:, 割合


 * Polish: taryfa
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Japanese: 割合; 生産速度;  成長率


 * Russian:, темп
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,


 * Japanese: 割合; 時給;  日給;  ;  年収


 * Finnish:, laatutaso,


 * Japanese:


 * : verhouding
 * : proportion
 * : Verhältnis
 * : proporzione
 * : proporzione


 * : 비율 (biyul)
 * : 比率 (bǐlǜ)
 * : razão
 * : proporción
 * : proportion

Verb
See to berate.

Anagrams

 * tare, tear

Noun

 * 1) spleen

Noun

 * 1) (female) rat

Verb

 * 1) first-person singular indicative present form of rater
 * 2) third-person singular indicative present form of rater
 * 3) first-person singular subjunctive present form of rater
 * 4) third-person singular subjunctive present form of rater
 * 5) second-person singular imperative of rater

Pronunciation

 * , X-SAMPA: /Rat/

Etymology 1
Origin uncertain.

Etymology 2
Inflected forms.

Anagrams

 * âtre, tare, taré

Verb
rate


 * 1) Imperative of raten.
 * Rate mal, wer gerade gekommen ist! - Guess who's just arrived.

Noun

 * 1) A raft.

Noun
rate



Anagrams

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