1. rate - Noun
2. rate - Verb
To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.
Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.
Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.
A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.
Order; arrangement.
Ratification; approval.
The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.
The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.
To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.
To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.
To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.
To ratify.
To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.
To make an estimate.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. James Meade
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. André Weil
Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most. Leó Szilárd
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. William Faulkner
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. Arthur Schopenhauer
Don't undermine my silence, its got reason; don't rate it, it as got no scale. African Proverb