rate
//ɹeɪt//
Forms
- Plural
- rates
- present (v1)
- rate
- past (v2)
- rated
- past participle (v3)
- rated
- present participle
- rating
- 3rd person singular
- rates
Definitions
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.
- Negative responses to this program were being received by the office of the National Gay Task Force at the rate of ten to one.
2.Speed.
- 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.
3.The relative speed of change or progress.
- The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.
4.The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
- He asked quite a rate to take me to the airport.
1.To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
- She is rated fourth in the country.
2.To evaluate or estimate the value of.
- To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible.
- They rate his talents highly.
3.To consider or regard.
- He rated this book brilliant.
4.To deserve; to be worth.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #479
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Common
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
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”).