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rating | ratable |

As a verb rating

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun rating

is a position on a scale.

As an adjective ratable is

able to be evaluated with a rating.

rating

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A position on a scale
  • An evaluation of status, especially of financial status
  • They have a poor credit rating .
  • A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.
  • He has a high chess rating .
  • (nautical) A seaman in a warship
  • *2014 , BBC News, Huge Russian warship fascinates French in Saint-Nazaire
  • *:Some 400 Russian ratings are living in the western French port, awaiting delivery of their controversial new command-and-control ship, the Vladivostok.
  • (nautical) The status of a seaman, corresponding to rank in officers.
  • * In the Royal Navy the ratings, in order, are:- ordinary seaman, able seaman, leading seaman, petty officer and chief petty officer
  • Anagrams

    * *

    ratable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (chiefly, finance) Able to be evaluated with a rating.
  • Derived terms

    * ratableness * ratably

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