Ravest vs Ratest - What's the difference?
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(archaic) (rave)
An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
An all-night dance party filled with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
(uncountable) The genre of electronic dance music associated with rave parties.
* 2009 , Chrysalis Experiential Academy, Mind Harvesting (page 109)
To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
* Addison
* Macaulay
To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , Section 3. § 5.
To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about'', ''of'', or (formerly) ''on .
* Byron
(obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
To attend a rave (dance party).
One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
(Webster 1913)
(archaic) (rate)
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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
In archaic terms the difference between ravest and ratest
is that ravest is archaic second-person singular of rave while ratest is archaic second-person singular of rate.ravest
English
Verb
(head)rave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin.Noun
(en noun)- Maybe I wear baggies / And white socks with flip-flops / Maybe I don't like listening to rave / And I'm not on the social mountaintops
Verb
(rav)- Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
- The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie.
- A production without design would resemble more the ravings of a madman, than the sober efforts of genius and learning.
- He raved about her beauty.
- The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not.
- (Spenser)
See also
* rantEtymology 2
English dialect raves, or .Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----ratest
English
Verb
(head)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.