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verb

Rate v. t. & v. i. To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently; to berate. "Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy!" "Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it."

Rate v. t. (past & past part. rated; pres. part. rating)

To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree. "To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible." "You seem not high enough your joys to rate."

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. (Obs.) "To rate the truce."

To rate a chronometer, to ascertain the exact rate of its gain or loss as compared with true time, so as to make an allowance or computation dependent thereon.

Synonyms: To value; appraise; estimate; reckon.

Rate v. i.

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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Etymology of 'Rating'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rating" Quotes from Famous Books

... successive motions, which were more or less narrowly rejected, various points in the Government proposals, and the opposition grew more and more stubborn. At length Lord Dunkellin (son of the Earl of Clanricarde) moved to substitute rating for rental in the boroughs; and the Government, in a House of six hundred and nineteen members, were defeated on June 18 by a majority of eleven. The excitement which met this announcement was extraordinary, ...

— Lord John Russell • Stuart J. Reid

... than three and three-fourths inches by four inches and not more than three and nine-sixteenths inches by five and nine-sixteenths inches in size. This means that all return cards, whether enclosed or attached, must be within authorized sizes to allow a first class postal rating. ...

— Business Correspondence • Anonymous

... Middle Ages, for example, this girl would have been a Damsel; and in that happy time practically everybody whose technical rating was that of Damsel was in distress and only too willing to waive the formalities in return for services rendered by the casual passer-by. But the twentieth century is a prosaic age, when girls are merely girls and have no troubles at all. Were he to stop this girl in brown ...

— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... despise myself to take less than falls to the share of the best foremast-hand in a ship, since it would be all the same as owning that I got my deserts. But master Harry has a way of his own in rating men's services; and if his ideas get jamm'd in an affair of this sort, it is no marling-spike that I handle which can loosen them. I once just named the propriety of getting me a quarter-master's birth; but devil the bit would he be doing the thing, seeing, as he says ...

— The Red Rover • James Fenimore Cooper

... no vain chase of an equality which would eliminate all individual initiative, and check all progress, by ignoring differences of capacity and strength, and rating muscles equal to brains. But we are in pursuit of equal laws, and a fairer chance of leading happy lives than humanity ...

— Widger's Quotations of Charles D. Warner • David Widger

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