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rate | fare |

In obsolete terms the difference between rate and fare

is that rate is ratification; approval while fare is a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.

In intransitive terms the difference between rate and fare

is that rate is to have value or standing while fare is to eat, dine.

rate

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from . (wikipedia rate)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) The estimated worth of something; value.
  • * 1599 , William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet , V.3:
    • There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.
  • The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
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  • Speed.
  • * Clarendon
    • Many of the horse could not march at that rate , nor come up soon enough.
  • 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.
  • (nautical) A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
  • (obsolete) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.
  • * Spenser
    • The one right feeble through the evil rate / Of food which in her duress she had found.
  • (obsolete) Order; arrangement.
  • * Spenser
    • Thus sat they all around in seemly rate .
  • (obsolete) Ratification; approval.
    • (Chapman)
  • (horology) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
    • daily rate'''; hourly '''rate ; etc.
    Derived terms
    * at any rate * exchange rate * flat rate * interest rate * mortality rate * failure rate * rate limiting

    Verb

    (rat)
  • To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
    • She is rated fourth in the country.
  • To evaluate or estimate the value of.
    • They rate his talents highly.
  • * South
    • To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible.
  • To consider or regard.
    • He rated this book brilliant.
  • To deserve; to be worth.
    • The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.
  • * 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 101:
    • Only two assistant district attorneys rate corner offices, and Mandelbaum wasn't one of them.
  • To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
    • The transformer is rated at 10 watts.
  • (transitive, chiefly, British) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
  • (informal) To like; to think highly of.
    • The customers don't rate the new burgers.
  • To have position (in a certain class).
    • She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world.
    He rates as the best cyclist in the country.
  • To have value or standing.
    • This last performance of hers didn't rate very high with the judges.
  • To ratify.
  • * Chapman
    • to rate the truce
  • To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.
    • Synonyms
    * (have position in a certain class) rank

    Derived terms

    * rating

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (rat)
  • To berate, scold.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy!
  • * Barrow
    • Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John IX:
    • Then rated they hym, and sayde: Thou arte hys disciple.
  • * , I.56:
    • Andronicus'' the Emperour, finding by chance in his pallace certaine principall men very earnestly disputing against ''Lapodius about one of our points of great importance, taunted and rated them very bitterly, and threatened if they gave not over, he would cause them to be cast into the river.
  • * 1825 , Sir (Walter Scott), , ch.iv:
    • He beheld him, his head still muffled in the veila man borne down and crushed to the earth by the burden of his inward feelings.
  • * 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch.XV, ''Practical — Devotional
    • The successful monk, on the morrow morning, hastens home to . The successful monk, arriving at Ely, is rated for a goose and an owl; is ordered back to say that (Elmset) was the place meant.

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    fare

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) fare, from the merger of (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage
  • Money paid for a transport ticket.
  • A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
  • Food and drink.
  • * , chapter=16
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
  • Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
  • (UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
    • Synonyms
    * (journey) see * (sense, prostitute's client) see
    References
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (archaic) To go, travel.
  • To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.
  • * Denham
    • So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
  • To eat, dine.
  • * Bible, Luke xvi. 19
    • There was a certain rich man which fared sumptuously every day.
  • (impersonal) To happen well, or ill.
    • We shall see how it will fare with him.
  • * Milton
    • So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.
    Derived terms
    * afare * farer * farewell * seafaring * spacefaring * warfare * wayfarer * welfare

    Derived terms

    * farewell * fareworthy * standard fare * warfare * welfare * workfare

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs ----