When you pay a high rate, you pay a lot of money. When you move at a high rate of speed, you go fast. If you are a judge at a contest, you rate the contestants.
Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
Noun
the relative speed of progress or change; "he lived at a fast pace"; "he works at a great rate"; "the pace of events accelerated"
Noun
amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis; "a 10-minute phone call at that rate would cost $5"
Noun
a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit; "they traveled at a rate of 55 miles per hour"; "the rate of change was faster than expected"
Verb
assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
Verb
estimate the value of; "How would you rate his chances to become President?"; "Gold was rated highly among the Romans"
Verb
be worthy of or have a certain rating; "This bond rates highly"
v. t. & i.
To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure
violently.
n.
Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
n.
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.
n.
Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost;
charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.
n.
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.
n.
Order; arrangement.
n.
Ratification; approval.
n.
The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily
rate; hourly rate; etc.
n.
The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined
according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate,
etc.
n.
The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance,
determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.
v. t.
To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price
or degree.
v. t.
To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To ratify.
v. i.
To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the
ship rates as a ship of the line.
v. i.
To make an estimate.
Rate
The one right feeble through the evil rate, Of food which in her duress she had found.2.
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.
They come at dear rates from Japan.4.
Thus sat they all around in seemly rate.6.
Rate
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.
Rate
Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.
To be set or considered in a class; to have rank;
Usage Examples
I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.
I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.
America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.
If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
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Other Usage ExamplesGovernment does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.
American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.
I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK.
If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.
I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.
If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.
I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.
I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100% we've always found a hole.
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