Definition of Rate

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Definition of Rate

Rate

To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.

Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.

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.

Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.

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.

Order; arrangement.

Ratification; approval.

The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.

The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.

The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.

To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.

To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.

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.

To ratify.

To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.

To make an estimate.

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Rate Quotations

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde

When I get my heart rate up, I get good exercise and I think it's good for a lot of things, plus it's not hurting my hips right now.
Mike Ditka

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
Alan Watts

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Charles Darwin

Government 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.
George W. Bush

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Douglas Adams

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur Schopenhauer

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
H. G. Wells

Rate Translations

rate in Afrikaans is verhouding
rate in Danish is vurdere
rate in Dutch is proportie, verhouding, evenredigheid
rate in Finnish is arvioida
rate in German is bewerten, Frequenz
rate in Italian is ritmo, rata, rapporto, tariffa, parte
rate in Spanish is cadencia, fila, lote, proporcion, arancel, valorar

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