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.

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.

Verb

To pronounce.

To recite.

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To communicate, either verbally or in writing.

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To indicate in a written form.

(impersonal) To have a common expression; (used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact).

* 1815 , :

They say that Hope is happiness; But genuine Love must prize the past.

* 1819 , Great Britain Court of Chancery, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery , page 8:

It is said , a bargain cannot be set aside upon inadequacy only.

* 1841 , Christopher Marshall, The Knickerbocker (New-York Monthly Magazine) , page 379:

It’s said that fifteen wagon loads of ready-made clothes for the Virginia troops came to, and stay in, town to-night.

(informal, imperative) Let's say; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.

* 1984 , (Martin Amis), Money: a suicide note?

I've followed Selina down the strip, when we're shopping, say , and she strolls on ahead, wearing sawn-off jeans and a wash-withered T-shirt

To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

You have said ; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

To this argument we shall soon have said ; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies?

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Verb

(en verb)

To try; to assay.

(Ben Jonson)