rate

Meanings

Noun

• The worth of something; value.
• The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
• Speed.
• The relative speed of change or progress.
• The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
• A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
• A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
• Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
• A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
• Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.
• Order; arrangement.
• Ratification; approval.
• The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.

Verb

• To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
• To evaluate or estimate the value of.
• To consider or regard.
• To deserve; to be worth.
• To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
• To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
• To like; to think highly of.
• To have position (in a certain class).
• To have value or standing.
• To ratify.
• To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.
• To berate, scold.

Related

Similar words

• rank

Narrower meaning words

• birth rate
• birthrate
• exchange rate
• failure rate
• flat rate
• high-burden-rate
• interest rate

Origin

• From Middle English rate, from Old French rate, from Medieval Latin rata, from Latin ("according to a fixed part"), from ratus, from reor.
• 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").