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Rate   /reɪt/   Listen
noun
Rate  n.  
1.
Established portion or measure; fixed allowance. "The one right feeble through the evil rate Of food which in her duress she had found."
2.
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. "Heretofore the rate and standard of wit was different from what it is nowadays." "In this did his holiness and godliness appear above the rate and pitch of other men's, in that he was so... merciful." "Many of the horse could not march at that rate, nor come up soon enough."
3.
Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation. "They come at dear rates from Japan."
4.
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.
5.
Order; arrangement. (Obs.) "Thus sat they all around in seemly rate."
6.
Ratification; approval. (R.)
7.
(Horol.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
8.
(Naut.)
(a)
The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.
(b)
The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.


verb
Rate  v. t. & v. i.  To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently; to berate. "Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy!" "Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it."


Rate  v. t.  (past & past part. rated; pres. part. rating)  
1.
To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree. "To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible." "You seem not high enough your joys to rate."
2.
To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.
3.
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.
4.
To ratify. (Obs.) "To rate the truce."
To rate a chronometer, to ascertain the exact rate of its gain or loss as compared with true time, so as to make an allowance or computation dependent thereon.
Synonyms: To value; appraise; estimate; reckon.


Rate  v. i.  
1.
To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.
2.
To make an estimate.





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... of the ships stopped here, while the others went on to Barbados to discharge their living freight. I more than suspect that Cromwell's agents soon discovered the Commonwealth had few friends in Virginia, and feared the effect of letting loose here so many of the Royalist soldiers. At any rate, this one ship dropped anchor at Hampton, and its passengers, to the number of about three hundred, were sold very cheaply to the neighboring planters. I may as well say here that all of them were well treated by their Cavalier masters, and many of them afterwards became the founders of what ...
— A Soldier of Virginia • Burton Egbert Stevenson
... a dreadful blast And swears that Time's forever past, Days, weeks, months, years all one at last, Then Asa Fiske, laid here, distressed, Will beat (and skin his hand) his breast: There'll be no rate of interest! ...
— Black Beetles in Amber • Ambrose Bierce
... the Editor of A House of Letters thinks fit to conclude. He has much to learn of the duties of editorship, among other things, as we shall have to note before long, reasonable care in recording and printing his originals. Upon that letter, at any rate, post if not propter, Miss Betham proposed to the philosopher that he should sit to her, and that, with some demur, he promised to do. An appointment was made to that end, and punctually broken. Then came this letter of excuse, which should have been worth many ...
— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett
... us this evening, Amelie, and show us that you're not put out with us,—not put out with me at any rate. I don't know, but I think it would be uncomfortable to have you for an enemy. Perhaps it's because I stood in your way [rallentando] or—I ...
— Plays: The Father; Countess Julie; The Outlaw; The Stronger • August Strindberg
... on the grip. Case's pistol then had not been used. Bentley went in and examined the medicine glass—this was toward four o'clock—and apparently Case must have taken, said Bentley, at least four doses. That much at any rate was gone, and Case was sleeping so heavily he could hardly be roused—could hardly be kept awake, begged thickly, sluggishly, to be allowed to "sleep it off," as though he thought he must have been drinking again. Bentley brought out one ...
— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King


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