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See also: Appendix:Variations of "rate"

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Pronunciation

  • enPR: rāt, IPA(key): /ɹeɪt/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪt

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

rate (countable and uncountable, plural rates)

  1. (obsolete) The worth of something; value. [15th–19th centuries]
  2. The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another. [from 15th c.]
    At the height of his powers, he was producing pictures at the rate of four a year.
    • 1979 December 29, Cindy Stein, “Queers in America's Living Rooms”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 10:
      Negative responses to this program were being received by the office of the National Gay Task Force at the rate of ten to one.
    • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
      In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
  3. Speed. [from 17th c.]
    The car was speeding down here at a hell of a rate.
  4. The relative speed of change or progress. [from 18th c.]
    The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.
  5. The price of (an individual) thing; cost. [from 16th c.]
    He asked quite a rate to take me to the airport.
  6. A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc. [from 16th c.]
    Postal rates here are low.
  7. A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
    We pay an hourly rate of between $10 – $15 per hour depending on qualifications and experience.
  8. Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority. [from 17th c.]
    I hardly have enough left every month to pay the rates.
  9. (nautical) A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
    This textbook is first-rate.
  10. (obsolete) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.
  11. (obsolete, uncountable) Order; arrangement.
  12. (obsolete) Ratification; approval.
    • c. 1610s, George Chapman, Caesar and Pompey
      Tis offerd, Sir, 'boue the rate of Caesar
      In other men, but in what I approue
      Beneath his merits: which I will not faile
      T'enforce at full to Pompey, nor forget
      In any time the gratitude of my seruice.
  13. (horology) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
    daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
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Verb

rate (third-person singular simple present rates, present participle rating, simple past and past participle rated)

  1. (transitive) To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
    She is rated fourth in the country.
  2. (transitive) To evaluate or estimate the value of.
    Synonyms: appraise, evaluate, worthen; see also Thesaurus:appraise
    They rate his talents highly.
    • 1661, Robert South, False Foundations Removed (sermon)
      To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible.
  3. (transitive) To consider or regard.
    Synonyms: esteem, regard, respect; see also Thesaurus:revere
    He rated this book brilliant.
  4. (transitive) To deserve; to be worth.
    The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.
    • 1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 101:
      Only two assistant district attorneys rate corner offices, and Mandelbaum wasn't one of them.
    • 1987 December 6, Paul Vincent Leone, “Too, Too Outrageous!”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 21, page 7:
      A few things DO work in Too Outrageous!, though I am not sure they rate the price of admission.
  5. (transitive) To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
    The transformer is rated at 10 watts.
  6. (transitive, chiefly British) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
  7. (transitive, informal) To like; to think highly of.
    The customers don't rate the new burgers.
  8. (transitive, horse racing) To take action to slow down the pace of the horse one is riding.
    • 2019, Jay Cronley, Good Vibes:
      Throughout the first turn is where the jockey rates the horse if the need arises. Rating a horse is where you keep it from putting out too much too soon.
  9. (intransitive) To have position (in a certain class).
    Synonym: rank
    She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world.
    He rates as the best cyclist in the country.
  10. (intransitive) To have value or standing.
    This last performance of hers didn't rate very high with the judges.
  11. (transitive) To ratify.
  12. (transitive) To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English raten (“to scold, chide”), from Old Norse hrata (“to refuse, reject, slight, find fault with”), from Proto-Germanic *hratōną (“to sway, shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krad- (“to swing”). Cognate with Swedish rata (“to reject, refuse, find fault, slight”), Norwegian rata (“to reject, cast aside”), Old English hratian (“to rush, hasten”).

Verb

rate (third-person singular simple present rates, present participle rating, simple past and past participle rated)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To berate, scold.
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Etymology 3

Related to, or a variant of, ret. (Found dialectally also as rait.)

Verb

rate (third-person singular simple present rates, present participle rating, simple past and past participle rated)

  1. (UK dialectal, obsolete) To cause (hay, hemp, flax, etc) to decay (whether in an injurious way, or—as retting—in a useful way) by exposure to weather, particularly wetness.
    • 1796, Mr. Marshall (William), The Rural Economy of Yorkshire: Compromising the Management of Landed Estates and the Present Practice of Husbandry in the Agricultural Districts of that County, page 70:
      From the "line pit" it [flax] is carried to the “RATING GROUND;" - a piece of unbroken aftergrass, where the sheaflets are untied, and the flax spread thin upon the grass. It is calculated, that a full crop ought to cover as much ground as it grew upon. Here it lies until it be sufficiently "rated;" namely, until the more woodlike substance of the stems will separate […]
    • 1857, Henry Best, Surtees Society (Durham, City of), Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641, Being the Farming and Account Books of Henry Best, of Elmsworth, in the East Riding of the County of York, page 34:
      […] hay when it is cocked either wette or greene, for then sure it is to be rated, and beinge rated looseth both the goode smell and goode taste; and likewise the colour, as yow may perceive by the blackenesse of the cocke on the outside; for if the […]
    • 1889, Edward Peacock, A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, Lincolnshire, page 433:
      "Frodingham of Roberte Westabie, for rateing hempe in Skinner Beck, contrairie to paine." - Kirton-in-Lindsey Fine Roll, 1630.

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Etymology 1

From Latin rata, an abbreviation of (pro) rata.

Noun

rate c (singular definite raten, plural indefinite rater)

  1. rate
  2. instalment (UK) or installment (US)

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Etymology 2

From English rate.

Verb

rate (imperative rate, infinitive at rate, present tense rater, past tense ratede, perfect tense ratet)

  1. (informal or colloquial) to rate

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