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(obsolete) The estimated worth of something; value.
* 1599 , William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet , V.3:
The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
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Speed.
* Clarendon
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
(obsolete) Order; arrangement.
* Spenser
(obsolete) Ratification; approval.
(horology) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
To evaluate or estimate the value of.
* South
To consider or regard.
To deserve; to be worth.
* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 101:
To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
(transitive, chiefly, British) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
(informal) To like; to think highly of.
To have position (in a certain class).
To have value or standing.
To ratify.
* Chapman
To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.
To berate, scold.
* Shakespeare
* Barrow
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John IX:
* , I.56:
* 1825 , Sir (Walter Scott), , ch.iv:
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch.XV, ''Practical — Devotional
Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
* Bible, Genesis ii. 19
* Shakespeare
* 1904 , , (The Marvelous Land of Oz) :
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Reputation.
* 1604 , (William Shakespeare), :
* 1952 , (Old Testament), Revised Standard Version , Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13:
A person (or legal person).
* Dryden
* second edition of, 2002, Graham Richards, Putting Psychology in its Place , ISBN 1841692336, page 287 [http://books.google.com/books?id=7bxvJIs5_wsC&pg=PA287&dq=names]:
* 2008 edition of, 1998, S. B. Budhiraja and M. B. Athreya, Cases in Strategic Management , ISBN 0074620975 page 79 [http://books.google.com/books?id=-IaKYHY0sogC&pg=PA79&dq=names]:
* 2009 third edition of, 1998, Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt, Tourism and Sustainability , ISBN 0203891058, page 29 [http://books.google.com/books?id=bM6MPBIFwkQC&pg=PA29&dq=names]:
Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
* Macaulay
(computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
To give a name to.
* 1904:' , ''The Land of Oz'' — I will ' name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'
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To mention, specify.
To identify as relevant or important
To publicly implicate.
To designate for a role.
As a noun rate
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from . (wikipedia rate)Noun
(en noun)- There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.
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- Many of the horse could not march at that rate , nor come up soon enough.
- The one right feeble through the evil rate / Of food which in her duress she had found.
- Thus sat they all around in seemly rate .
- (Chapman)
- daily rate'''; hourly '''rate ; etc.
Derived terms
* at any rate * exchange rate * flat rate * interest rate * mortality rate * failure rate * rate limitingVerb
(rat)- She is rated fourth in the country.
- They rate his talents highly.
- To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible.
- He rated this book brilliant.
- The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.
- Only two assistant district attorneys rate corner offices, and Mandelbaum wasn't one of them.
- The transformer is rated at 10 watts.
- The customers don't rate the new burgers.
- She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world.
- He rates as the best cyclist in the country.
- This last performance of hers didn't rate very high with the judges.
- to rate the truce
Synonyms
* (have position in a certain class) rankDerived terms
* ratingEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(rat)- Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy!
- Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it.
- Then rated they hym, and sayde: Thou arte hys disciple.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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English
Noun
(wikipedia name) (en noun)- Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
- That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.
- So good a man as this must surely have a name .
- Good name in man and woman, dear my lord / Is the immediate jewel of their souls.[http://www.bartleby.com/100/138.34.42.html]
- And David won a name for himself.[http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Rsv2Sam.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=8&division=div1]
- They list with women each degenerate name .
- Later British psychologists interested in this topic include such major names as Cyril Burt, William McDougall,.
- Would it be able to fight the competition from ITC Agro Tech and Liptons who were ready and able to commit large resources? With such big names as competitors, would this business be viable for Marico?
- International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and.
- The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name , came every day to pay their feigned civilities.