·noun Order; arrangement.
II. Rate ·noun Ratification; approval.
III. Rate ·vt To Ratify.
IV. Rate ·vi To make an Estimate.
V. Rate ·vt To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.
VI. Rate ·noun Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
VII. Rate ·vt To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.
VIII. Rate ·noun The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; ·etc.
IX. Rate ·vi To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.
X. Rate ·vt & ·vi To chide with vehemence; to Scold; to censure violently.
XI. Rate ·noun Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.
XII. Rate ·noun The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, ·etc.
XIII. Rate ·noun The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, ·etc.; as, first rate, second rate, ·etc.
XIV. Rate ·vt 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.
XV. Rate ·noun 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.
XVI. Rate ·noun 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.