Meaning of rate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. an unsuccessful person; a failure
2. The worth of something; value.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
3. To berate.
4. The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
   countable, uncountable
5. To express reproof.
6. Speed.
   countable, uncountable
7. at any rate, a. in any event; in any case.
8. The relative speed of change or progress.
   countable, uncountable
9. The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
   countable, uncountable
10. to chide vehemently.
11. A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
    countable, uncountable
12. To reprimand loudly or harshly:bawl out, berate.
13. A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
    countable, uncountable
14. to estimate or be estimated, with regard to worth, merit, value etc. I don't rate this book very highly; He doesn't rate very highly as a dramatist in my estimation. gradeer يُقَيِّم، يُعْطي قيمَه изчислявам classificar(-se) hodnotit, být ceněn einschätzen, gelten als vurdere; regnes λογαριάζω, λογαριάζομαι, μετρώestimar, tasar, valorar hindama بر آورد کردن؛ ارزیابی کردن arvostaa assigner une valeur à; être évalué לְהַעֲרִיך दर नियत करना procijeniti becsül menilai meta valutare, giudicare 評価す...
    etc
15. Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
    countable, uncountable
16. if this or if that is the case; if this or if that continues. He says that he isn't sure whether we'll be allowed to finish, but at that rate we might as well not start. teen hierdie tempo إذا كان الأمرُ كَذلك، إذا صَحَّ ذلك с такава скорост a ser/continuar assim v tom případě unter diesen Umständen på denne måde σε αυτήν την περίπτωση, αν είναι έτσι en ese caso; a este paso sel juhul به این طریق؛ اگر وضع بدین طریق باشد tätä menoa à ce compte là בַּקֶצֶב הַזֶה यदि परिस्थितियां इसी तरह रहीं, त...
17. A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
    countable, uncountable
18. the relative values of the currencies of two or more countries. I want to change some dollars into francs – what is the rate of exchange? wisselkoers قيمَة التَّبْديل курс taxa de câmbio devizový kurz der Wechselkurs valutakurs; vekselkurs τιμή συναλλάγματοςtipo de cambio rahavahetuskurss نرخ ارز valuuttakurssi taux de change שַׁעַר חֲלִיפִין मानक मुद्रा दर valutni tečaj valuta-, devizaárfolyam kurs gengi (gjaldmiðla) cambio 為替相場 환율 (valiutos) keitimo kursas valūtas (maiņas) kurss nilai koers...
19. Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
20. A quantity measured with respect to another measured quantity: a rate of speed of 60 miles an hour.
21. Order; arrangement.
    obsolete, uncountable
22. A measure of a part with respect to a whole; a proportion: the mortality rate; a tax rate.
23. Ratification; approval.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
24. The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.”

“His natural parts were not of the first rate, but he had greatly improved them by a learned education.”

“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.”

“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%.”

“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.”

“The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.”

“He asked quite a rate to take me to the airport.”

“Postal rates here are low.”

“We pay an hourly rate of between $10 – $15 per hour depending on qualifications and experience.”

“I hardly have enough left every month to pay the rates.”

“This textbook is first-rate.”

“The one right feeble through the evil rate / Of food which in her duress she had found.”

“Thus sat they all around in seemly rate.”

“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.”

“daily rate; hourly rate; etc.”

“We seem to assist at the terrible soirées where the ratés exhibit their talents (M. Moronval is of course a raté) [...]”

“Certainly he was a raté, as I’ve heard many declare since his death, but he was a lucid and conscious raté, one who had deliberately chosen this condition.”

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