rate

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 rāt

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The worth of something; value. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.
  2. The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another. countable,uncountable
    — At the height of his powers, he was producing pictures at the rate of four a year.
  3. Speed. countable,uncountable
    — The car was speeding down here at a hell of a rate.
  4. The relative speed of change or progress. countable,uncountable
    — The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.
  5. The price of (an individual) thing; cost. countable,uncountable
    — He asked quite a rate to take me to the airport.
  6. A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc. countable,uncountable
    — Postal rates here are low.
  7. A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time. countable,uncountable
    — We pay an hourly rate of between $10 – $15 per hour depending on qualifications and experience.
  8. Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority. countable,uncountable
    — I hardly have enough left every month to pay the rates.
  9. A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank. countable,uncountable
    — This textbook is first-rate.
  10. Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — The one right feeble through the evil rate / Of food which in her duress she had found.
  11. Order; arrangement. obsolete,uncountable
    — Thus sat they all around in seemly rate.
  12. Ratification; approval. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — 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.
  13. The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time. countable,uncountable
    — daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
动词 v.
  1. To cause (hay, hemp, flax, etc) to decay (whether in an injurious way, or—as retting—in a useful way) by exposure to weather, particularly wetness. UK,dialectal,obsolete
    — From the "line pit" it [flax] is carried to the “RATING GROUND;" - a piece of unbroken aftergrass, where the sheaflets are untied, and the flax spread thin upon the grass. It is calculated, that a full crop ought to cover as much ground as it grew upon. Here it lies until it be sufficiently "rated;" namely, until the more woodlike substance of the stems will separate […]
  2. To berate, scold. obsolete,transitive
    — Then rated they hym, and sayde: Thou arte hys disciple.
  3. To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level. transitive
    — She is rated fourth in the country.
  4. To evaluate or estimate the value of. transitive
    — They rate his talents highly.
  5. To consider or regard. transitive
    — He rated this book brilliant.
  6. To deserve; to be worth. transitive
    — The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.
  7. To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device. transitive
    — The transformer is rated at 10 watts.
  8. To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation. UK,transitive
  9. To like; to think highly of. informal,transitive
    — The customers don't rate the new burgers.
  10. To take action to slow down the pace of the horse one is riding. transitive
    — Throughout the first turn is where the jockey rates the horse if the need arises. Rating a horse is where you keep it from putting out too much too soon.
  11. To have position (in a certain class). intransitive
    — She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world.
  12. To have value or standing. intransitive
    — This last performance of hers didn't rate very high with the judges.
  13. To ratify. transitive
    — to rate the truce
  14. To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time. transitive

词形变化

rates plural rates present,singular,third-person rating participle,present rated participle,past rated past rates present,singular,third-person rating participle,present rated participle,past rated past rates present,singular,third-person rating participle,present rated participle,past rated past

词汇关系

下位词
birth rate birthrate book rate call money rate cyclic rate exchange rate failure rate flat rate growth rate hash rate high-burden-rate interest rate key rate policy interest rate policy rate prime rate rate of change rate of interest slew rate time rate unemployment rate water-rate
衍生词
accident rate adiabatic lapse rate age standardized rate air kerma rate asking rate at any rate at a rate of knots attack rate at this rate bank rate basal metabolic rate base rate base rate fallacy basic rate interface basic reproduction rate basic reproductive rate birthrate bitrate bit rate blue circle rate book of rates bounce rate burn rate buyrate call rate capacity utilization rate case fatality rate church rate churn rate clearance rate click-through rate climb rate clock rate conversion rate countrate crime rate crude birth rate crude death rate cut-rate data rate data transfer rate death rate discount rate economy rate eigenrate erythrocyte sedimentation rate exchange rate risk excursion rate fallrate fatality rate fertility rate fifth rate fifth-rate fillrate first rate first-rate flat-rate flat rate tax floating rate flowrate fourth-rate fourth rate frame rate going rate half-rate hashrate heart rate heart rate monitor infant mortality rate interest rate guarantee interest rate swap lapse rate Lombard rate man-rate markup rate mate's rate mates' rates metabolic rate midrate mill rate multirate natural increase rate net run rate Nyquist rate octal data rate open rate over rate over-rate penalty rate percentage rate piece rate poor rate positivity rate postage rate premium-rate telephone number primary rate interface rack rate ratebuster rate-buster rate card rate constant ratee rate equation rateless rate limit rate limiter rate limiting ratemaker ratemaking ratemeter rate of climb rate-of-climb indicator rate of climb indicator rate of exchange rate of return rate of speed ratepayer ratepaying rate sheet rate tart reaction rate constant red circle rate refresh rate required run raten respiratory rate roll rate run-rate run rate runrate second-rate second rate sed rate shrink rate single data rate sixth-rate sixth rate strain rate strike rate tax rate teaser rate teledensity rate tenth-rate third rate third-rate time-of-use rates transfer rate transrate underrate utilization rate wheeze rate winrate workrate zero-rate unrate uprate derate disrate downrate misrate outrate overrate ratability rateable rating rerate

词源

词源 1
From Middle English rate, from Old French rate, from Medieval Latin rata, from Latin prō ratā parte (“according to a fixed part”), from ratus (“fixed”), from rērī (“think, deem, judge, estimate", originally "reckon, calculate”).
词源 2
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”).
词源 3
Related to, or a variant of, ret. (Found dialectally also as rait.)
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