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US
/ˈɹeɪt/
]
[ UK /ɹˈeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈeɪt/ ]
VERB
-
be worthy of or have a certain rating
This bond rates highly -
assign a rank or rating to
The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide
how would you rank these students? -
estimate the value of
How would you rate his chances to become President?
Gold was rated highly among the Romans
NOUN
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a quantity or amount or measure considered as a proportion of another quantity or amount or measure
the literacy rate
the retention rate
the dropout rate -
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 -
the relative speed of progress or change
the pace of events accelerated
he lived at a fast pace
he works at a great rate -
amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis
a 10-minute phone call at that rate would cost $5
How To Use rate In A Sentence
- Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
- You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival? Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
- The battery-operated doll comes complete with walkie-talkie and a wardrobe choice of military fatigues or bolero jacket and gold trousers.
- Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses. Caesars’ Wives
- So, did it take a row over a ban on journalists to enable him to penetrate the secret that the regime is not a model of benignity?
- Does the plain, unsugared doughy type bagel look alike surpass the overly decorated with hundreds and thousands and pumped full of sweet chemicals with optional coating of chocolate (half dipped) Tescos Express doughnut win every time? Rabbit Stew. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news. Fighting the Whales
- 8. The reporters all want Obama to make the sort of inaccurate, snide, snipy comments that the Clintons are now firing off daily. Archive 2008-03-01
- A lot of businesses are being hurt by the current high interest rates.
- In many places, glittering among the clothes, were gold and silver coins, a few silver ornaments such as buckles, and watches -- things not missed by the pirates in the transport of their flight. The Frozen Pirate
