Word Finder - rate

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The worth of something; value.

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The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.

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At the height of his powers, he was producing pictures at the rate of four a year.

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Speed.

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The car was speeding down here at a hell of a rate.

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The relative speed of change or progress.

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The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.

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The price of (an individual) thing; cost.

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

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A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.

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Postal rates here are low.

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A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.

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

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Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.

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

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A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.

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This textbook is first-rate.

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Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.

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Order; arrangement.

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Ratification; approval.

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The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.

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daily rate; hourly rate; etc.

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To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.

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She is rated fourth in the country.

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To evaluate or estimate the value of.

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They rate his talents highly.

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To consider or regard.

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He rated this book brilliant.

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To deserve; to be worth.

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The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.

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To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.

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The transformer is rated at 10 watts.

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To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.

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To like; to think highly of.

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The customers don't rate the new burgers.

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To have position (in a certain class).

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He rates as the best cyclist in the country.

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To have value or standing.

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This last performance of hers didn't rate very high with the judges.

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To ratify.

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To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.

At any rate, it was none of her business.

They said his pulse rate has increased over night, which might mean he is trying to wake up.

At this rate, I don't know.

At any rate, Katie was right.

At this rate they will soon begin beating us.

The tax rate is actually much higher.

At this rate, I'll be dead long before you succeed.

The unemployment rate in Ouray was one-point-four.

The rate of innovation is increasing rapidly, though.

Don't I know that at the rate we are living our means won't last long?

At any rate, today was no different.

At any rate, he was only awake for about 30 minutes.

At any rate, I have no intention of visiting anyone.

We are creating at a rate exponentially more than our most recent ancestors.

So you might suspect the tax rate is only 1 percent.

At any rate, it was good to have that over with.

At any rate, he might not find the task at hand as unpleasant as she anticipated it would be.

At any rate, he'll probably show up on your door step some time.

At any rate, a stroll through the woods with him sounded inviting.

The rate of loss of charge is thus largely dependent on the extent to which ions are present in the surrounding air.

In 1904 official estimates, based on immigration and emigration returns and upon registered births and deaths, both of which are admittedly defective, showed a population increased to 5,410,028, and a small diminution in the rate of annual increase from 1895 to 1904 as compared with 18.69-1895.

These measures have served to give greater stability to the value of the circulating medium, and to prevent the ruinous losses caused by a constant fluctuation in value, but the rate established prevents the further appreciation of the currency.

The following table exhibits the rate of increase as indicated by the Del censuses from 1876 to 1906.

At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it.

At any rate, he had successfully removed her barrier.

The birth- Basses-Al rate markedly decreased during the 19th century; Basses-Py despite an increase of population between 1801 and Belfort, 1

But this certainly was not the leading point of view with the mass of the Rabbins; 1 and at any rate it is quite certain that the synagogue is a post-exilic institution, and therefore that the Sabbath in old Israel must have been entirely different from the Sabbath of the Scribes.

Public Debt.The national debt of France is the heaviest of any country in the world., Its foundation was laid early in the 15th century, and the continuous wars of succeeding centuries, combined with the extravagance of the monarchs, as well as deliberate disregard of financial and economic conditions, increased it at an alarming rate.

The commerce of the island has been of late years increasing at a rapid rate.

The birth rate averages 26.28 per thousand of the population and the death rate 12.28, showing a net increase of 14 per thousand by reason of the excess of births over deaths.

The marriage rate varies as in other countries from year to year according to the degree of prosperity prevailing.

In the five years 1881-1888 the rate was 8 08 marriages (16.1 persons) per thousand of the population, declining to 6.51 in 1891-1895; in recent years there has been a considerable improvement, and the Australian marriage rate may be quoted as ranging between 6.75 and 7.25.

The death rate of Australia is much below that of European countries and is steadily declining.

During the twenty years preceding the census of 1901 there was a fall in the death rate of 3.4 per thousand, of which, however, 1 per thousand is attributable to the decline in the birth rate, the balance being attributable to improved sanitary conditions.

The rate of increase since the previous census was 1.5% per annum, varying from 0.31 in Victoria to 2 06 in New South Wales and 6.9 in Western Australia.

In 1873 there was an important rise in wages, in the following year there was a further advance, and another in 1876; but in 1877 wages fell back a little, though not below the rate of 1874.

In New South Wales, whose example was followed by Western Australia, the machinery adopted for fixing the statutory rate of wages was of a somewhat different type.

Owing to the high rate of taxation on deposits, a considerable part of the savings of the people is sent into other states.

The tidal wave of the Southern Ocean, which sweeps uninterruptedly round the globe from east to west, generates a secondary wave between Africa and South America, which travels north at a rate dependent only on the depth of the ocean.

It is practically important to consider the rate at which energy may be transformed into useful work, or the horse-power of the agent.

It generally happens that to obtain the greatest possible amount of work from a given supply of energy, and to obtain it at the greatest rate, are conflicting interests.

We have seen that the efficiency of an electromagnetic engine is greatest when the current is indefinitely small, and then the rate at which it works is also indefinitely small.

A similar condition obtains in the steamengine, in which a great rate of working necessitates the dissipation of a large amount of energy.

The cable must not be overstrained in the process of submersion, and must be paid out at the proper rate to give the requisite slack.

The length paid out and the rate of paying out are obtained approximately from the number of turns made by the drum P and its rate of turning.

The average speed is obtained very accurately from solar and stellar observations for the position of the ship. The difference between the speed of the ship and the rate of paying out gives the amount of.

The arm which moves round over the segments rotates at the rate of three revolutions per second, and is kept in motion by means of an iron toothed wheel, the rim of which is set in close proximity to the poles of an electromagnet.

A horizontal arm fixed to a vertical shaft in gear with the mechanism sweeps over these pins at the rate of about two revolutions per second.

An experimental printer constructed about the middle of 1908 by the British Post Office, operated successfully at the rate of 210 words (1260 letters) per minute.

The short leg of the siphon tube dips into an insulated ink-bottle, so' that the ink it contains becomes electrified, while the long leg has its open end at a very small distance from a brass table, placed with its surface parallel to the plane in which the mouth of the leg moves, and over which a slip of paper may be passed at a uniform rate, as in the spark recorder.