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Rate
Rate Rate, v. t. & i. [Perh. fr. E. rate, v. t., to value at a
certain rate, to estimate, but more prob. fr. Sw. rata to
find fault, to blame, to despise, to hold cheap; cf. Icel.
hrat refuse, hrati rubbish.]
To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.
--Spencer.
Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy! --Shak.
Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming
them from it, and rating them for it. --Barrow.
Rate
Rate 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.
RateRate Rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rated; p. pr. & vb. n.
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. --South.
You seem not high enough your joys to rate.
--Dryden.
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.' --Chapman.
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 depended thereon.
Syn: To value; appraise; estimate; reckon.
Meaning of Rate from wikipedia
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rate,
rates, or
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Rate or
rates may
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Rate, an
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radiometric dating.
RATE claimed that
evidence supported over 500
million years of
radiometric decay at today's
rates but that it also supported...
- The
lapse rate is the
rate at
which an
atmospheric variable,
normally temperature in Earth's atmosphere,
falls with altitude.
Lapse rate arises from the...
- The list of
countries by
homicide rate is
derived from
United Nations Office on
Drugs and
Crime (UNODC) data, and is
expressed in
number of
deaths per...
- In finance, an
exchange rate is the
rate at
which one
currency will be
exchanged for
another currency.
Currencies are most
commonly national currencies...
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Heart rate is the
frequency of the
heartbeat measured by the
number of
contractions of the
heart per
minute (beats per minute, or bpm). The
heart rate varies...
- An
interest rate is the
amount of
interest due per period, as a
proportion of the
amount lent, deposited, or
borrowed (called the prin****l sum). The total...
- computing, bit
rate (bitrate or as a
variable R) is the
number of bits that are conve**** or
processed per unit of time. The bit
rate is
expressed in...
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Frame rate, most
commonly expressed in
frames per
second or FPS, is
typically the
frequency (
rate) at
which consecutive images (frames) are
captured or...
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Discount rate may
refer to:
Social discount rate (of consumption), the
rate at
which the
weight given to ****ure
consumption decreases in
economic models...
