Guess vs Rate - What's the difference?

Guess is a related term of rate.

As nouns the difference between guess and rate

is that guess is a prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support while rate is rot (process of something decaying or rotting ).

As a verb guess

is to reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.

guess

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.

To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.

He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.

(chiefly, US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).

That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.

* Shakespeare

Not all together; better far, I guess , / That we do make our entrance several ways.

* Alexander Pope

But in known images of life I guess / The labour greater.

(obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.

* Shakespeare

Tell me their words, as near as thou canst guess them.

Synonyms

* hypothesize * take a stab * speculate

Derived terms

* foreguess * guess what * guessable * guesser * guessing game * guesstimate * guesswork * keep someone guessing * no prize for guessing * out-guess * second-guess * you'll never guess

Etymology 2

From (etyl) gesse. Cognate with (etyl) .

Noun

(es)

A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

If you don't know the answer, take a guess .

Synonyms

* estimate * hypothesis * prediction

Derived terms

* another-guess * anyone's guess * by guess or by gosh * educated guess * guesswork * guesstimate * otherguess * take a guess * your guess is as good as mine

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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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