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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:
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* 1825 , Sir (Walter Scott), , ch.iv:
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch.XV, ''Practical — Devotional
To determine the weight of an object.
Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
(figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
(intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
* Spenser
To consider a subject. (rfex)
To have a certain weight.
To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
* Cowper
* Shakespeare
To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
(nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
(nautical) To weigh anchor.
* 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 91:
*1841 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘A Descent into the Maelström’:
*:‘Here we used to remain until nearly time for slack-water again, when we weighed and made for home.’
To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
* Cowper
(obsolete) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
Rate is a related term of weigh.
As a noun rate
is rot (process of something decaying or rotting ).As a verb weigh is
to determine the weight of an object.rate
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
Verb
(en verb)- He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client.
- You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
- could not weigh of worthiness aright
- I weigh ten and a half stone.
- They only weigh the heavier.
- Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff / Which weighs upon the heart.
- Your vows to her and me will even weigh .
- This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge.
- Towards the evening we wayed , and approaching the shoare [...], we landed where there lay a many of baskets and much bloud, but saw not a Salvage.
- Weigh the vessel up.
- I weigh not you.
- all that she so dear did weigh