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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rating
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a poll rating (=showing how popular someone is)
▪ His poll ratings keep slipping.
credit rating
sb's popularity rating (=how popular someone is according to a poll)
▪ His popularity rating dropped quite dramatically after the events of last year.
sb’s credit rating (=how likely a bank etc thinks someone is to pay their debts)
▪ If you have a poor credit rating, you will have a hard time getting a mortgage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
▪ Data from the Groeger and Chapman study is presented as average ratings from 48 subjects, 24 male and 24 female.
▪ Overall, the University's average rating has improved from 2.20 to 3.25.
current
▪ This effectively gives a 6-0-6 volt transformer having a current rating of 250 milliamps.
▪ Mains transformer T1 must have a generous current rating.
▪ However, the current rating is the sum of the individual current ratings, or 500 milliamps in this case.
▪ Replace any flexes that have damaged insulation with new flex of the correct type and current rating for the appliance concerned.
▪ The current rating of the combined secondaries is the same as when they are used separately, 250 milliamps in this example.
▪ This exceeds the transformer current rating.
▪ Any alternative must be rated at least 40V working and have minimum ripple current rating of 5A.
excellent
▪ State officials have always given the Mullens excellent ratings as foster parents.
good
▪ But a good rating from the independent assessors can make all the difference.
▪ Which is, of course, why funds with good ratings would buy them.
▪ A Weakest Link special featuring EastEnders stars turned in the quiz show's best ever ratings.
▪ However, Tejano Country began pulling in much better ratings than expected, Mr Porter said.
▪ Headquarters at that time was recruiting big time and he had very good ratings.
high
▪ Penzance must have a high rating in the doggy charts.
▪ Republicans have been careful not to dismiss the proposals of a re-elected president enjoying high public approval ratings.
▪ The notes are not backed by any collateral; rather, they rely on the high credit rating of the issuing corporation.
▪ The highest temperature rating is in your brain.
▪ Those who found the election campaign interesting gave personal conversations high ratings for all purposes.
▪ He refused to lower his ethical standards for higher ratings.
▪ Gaining one of the highest ratings in the area.
▪ If right-wing radio talk show hosts get high ratings, they will be the ones on the air.
low
▪ This is illegal as they have a lower speed rating than the vehicle requires.
▪ Mr Major and his chancellor, Norman Lamont, still have the lowest poll ratings since the second world war.
▪ Problems caused by using fuel with a too low octane rating.
▪ Still, it kept civilians and lower ratings in their place to affect a certain degree of criticism.
▪ Few voters gave her low ratings for being tough or decisive, and they were an unpredictable few.
▪ There is a much simpler way to deal with low ratings.
▪ However, they were preoccupied with their own internal squabbles and Michael Foot was scoring low personal ratings in the opinion polls.
▪ They are an unsecured loan, generally to a borrower with a low credit rating.
mean
▪ To test this possibility the data were split according to the mean ratings for the amount of moving objects in the film.
▪ Data were then presented as rank-ordered products of the mean ratings.
▪ Judgment Results: The overall mean speed rating was 4.26 and mean normality rating was 6.38.
▪ Because subjects differ between the experiments the correlations calculated here are simply correlations over the 60 films of the mean ratings.
overall
▪ Returns automatically become more volatile. Overall market ratings do not allow for one-off payments.
▪ Each area is scored out of 10 and the company is thus given an overall rating out of 200.
▪ Judgment Results: The overall mean speed rating was 4.26 and mean normality rating was 6.38.
▪ Is this pattern illustrated for overall health rating?
▪ Scrutiny of Figure 6.2 indicates that this pattern is replicated for overall health rating.
▪ As with aspects of physical and mental health the population classification derived from overall health ratings is dependent upon the question asked.
▪ How well does older people's overall rating of their health status compare with the prevalence of acute and chronic health problems?
poor
▪ At worst, a poor rating can put a company out of business.
▪ Both had poor ratings in a crowded marketplace, with almost two dozen syndicated talk shows scrapping for viewers every day.
▪ Loaded with debt and poor credit ratings, the future of their juicy cash flows is in doubt.
▪ You Bet Your Life, which has been screened on Channel 4, was dropped due to poor ratings.
top
▪ The department's work has been given top ratings in both UGC/UFC research reviews.
▪ Pyramid and Sequent score well, along with Siemens Nixdorf, in the top end performance ratings for mainframe Unix.
■ NOUN
agency
▪ The ratings agency cited the increased business risk profile of the company, which has reduced profitability.
▪ Yet, ratings agencies count the obligation as equity, providing an advantage over traditional debt.
approval
▪ The poll also gave a popular approval rating of 39 percent for the President, the lowest ever recorded by Bush.
▪ Republicans have been careful not to dismiss the proposals of a re-elected president enjoying high public approval ratings.
▪ His approval ratings may even go down.
▪ He leaves office with near-record-high approval ratings despite widespread abhorrence at his personal behavior, pollsters say.
▪ He leaves office with record approval ratings.
▪ Clinton ventured to Capitol Hill Tuesday night enjoying the highest public approval ratings of his presidency.
credit
▪ Stronger societies were taking over smaller and weaker ones, which resulted in a downgrading of the credit rating of the predator.
▪ Its credit ratings are lower than those of its rivals as well.
▪ The principles of credit rating are immutable, they insist; their credit opinions are never swayed by the judgments of others.
▪ Ignore companies that claim to be able to repair your credit ratings.
▪ Lists of customers or sub-contractors and associated information; for example, what services they perform, what their credit rating is.
▪ The percentage loaned is again a function of the credit rating of the borrower and the quality of the accounts receivable.
▪ The notes are not backed by any collateral; rather, they rely on the high credit rating of the issuing corporation.
▪ A third major source of short-term financing, commercial paper, is available to large firms with high-quality credit ratings.
performance
▪ Kubota claims performance ratings of between 200,000 and 1.2m shaded triangles per second and 350,000 to 2m three-dimensional vectors per second.
▪ And it limited bumping to one career path and based it primarily on performance ratings, not seniority.
▪ Pyramid and Sequent score well, along with Siemens Nixdorf, in the top end performance ratings for mainframe Unix.
poll
▪ Mr Major and his chancellor, Norman Lamont, still have the lowest poll ratings since the second world war.
▪ It is uncertain how the return of the public Gingrich will affect his poll ratings or those of his party.
▪ He started talking about individuals' opinion poll ratings.
▪ And those high poll ratings, they argued, translate into more power in negotiations with Congress.
▪ They tackled their political, tactical and strategic problems swiftly and directly; and, incidentally, their poll ratings rose strongly.
▪ Less than two years ago, at the end of the Gulf War, he had the highest poll rating of any President.
popularity
▪ The president's popularity ratings are at a record low.
power
▪ Their power ratings, in the 16-18 range prior to Sunday, may drop below 20.
▪ In our Bench Tests, the machine performed adequately with a power rating of 3,725.
risk
▪ The risk rating is a statistical measure of the probability of failure for companies with negative Z-Score.
▪ The risk ratings come from Morningstar.
▪ The risk ratings of recent failures are also provided in Table 1.
▪ Accident estimates and risk ratings are strongly related for individual subjects.
▪ The data for risk ratings and accident estimates were considered separately and are plotted in Figures 4.1 and 4.2 respectively.
▪ One subject used a wide range of accident estimates but gave a risk rating of one at all 40 junctions.
▪ The actual distribution of responses across the 20 possible risk ratings and 21 possible accident estimates is shown in Figure 3.2.
▪ Above this point there is a dramatic increase in the probability of recall with increasing risk ratings.
system
▪ This is supposed to include details of how a bank's internal ratings system is working.
▪ We have decided to implement an MPAAlike ratings system for the television programs on Fox.
▪ Brewers are now introducing the Alcohol by Volume rating system.
▪ After all, the networks have resisted calls for a ratings system for more than 25 years.
▪ Officials hope to have the ratings system in place by January 1997.
▪ Officially, they maintained they are moving on a ratings system voluntarily.
▪ The entertainment industry has vehemently objected to the V-chip and ratings system as tantamount to government censorship.
▪ The first two dots to connect are the V-chip legislation and the ratings system.
■ VERB
cut
▪ Analysts cut their ratings on the bellwether technology stock: Morgan Stanley.
give
▪ To explore this possibility subjects gave risk ratings for the stimuli after completing the main experiment.
▪ State officials have always given the Mullens excellent ratings as foster parents.
▪ As it's a beta version, it's tricky to give ClarisWorks a star rating.
▪ Lowbrow tabloid readers gave PEBs high ratings for all three purposes.
▪ Each area is scored out of 10 and the company is thus given an overall rating out of 200.
▪ One subject used a wide range of accident estimates but gave a risk rating of one at all 40 junctions.
▪ The department's work has been given top ratings in both UGC/UFC research reviews.
increase
▪ When lead is added to petrol it improves a car's performance by increasing the octane rating.
▪ Consultants are hired by stations to find ways to increase the ratings of news shows, and to do so quickly.
▪ Above this point there is a dramatic increase in the probability of recall with increasing risk ratings.
▪ Extra Training: Put any of your players through extra training to hopefully increase their skill rating.
lower
▪ Sons, lowered their ratings on the stock because of slower-than-expected growth at new stores.
▪ Southeastern hospitals generally have higher credit ratings than those in other regions, because they have newer facilities and lower costs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Almodovar's film was given an X rating in the U.S.
▪ NBC's new comedy had the highest television rating this season.
▪ The President's approval rating rose to 78%.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And those high poll ratings, they argued, translate into more power in negotiations with Congress.
▪ In the effort to bolster ratings at all costs, journalistic standards have been lowered.
▪ Readers will doubtless already be well aware that the voltage ratings quoted for electrolytic capacitors are really quite important.
▪ Similar factors explain newspaper ratings also.
▪ Staying above the fray, he has gone about his duties and watched his approval ratings rise.
▪ The five categories of fires, plus their efficiency ratings, are described below.
▪ The other likely source for the differences in ratings is that subjects interpreted the normality task differently in the two situations.
▪ With ratings down, however, the show last fall refocused on investigative reporting and celebrity interviews and stopped paying for stories.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rating

Rate \Rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rated; p. pr. & vb. n. Rating.]

  1. To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.

    To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible.
    --South.

    You seem not high enough your joys to rate.
    --Dryden.

  2. To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.

  3. 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.

  4. To ratify. [Obs.] ``To rate the truce.''
    --Chapman.

    To rate a chronometer, to ascertain the exact rate of its gain or loss as compared with true time, so as to make an allowance or computation dependent thereon.

    Syn: To value; appraise; estimate; reckon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rating

1530s, "a fixing of rates," verbal noun from rate (v.2). Meaning "a classification according to rates" is from 1764. Ratings of TV programs, originally radio programs, began 1930 in U.S. under system set up by U.S. pollster and market researcher Archibald M. Crossley (1896-1985), and were called Crossley ratings or Crossleys until ratings began to be preferred c.1947.

Wiktionary
rating

n. 1 A position on a scale 2 An evaluation of status, especially of financial status 3 A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something. 4 (context nautical English) A seaman in a warship 5 (context nautical English) The status of a seaman, corresponding to rank in officers. vb. (present participle of rate English)

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WordNet
rating

  1. n. an appraisal of the value of something; "he set a high valuation on friendship" [syn: evaluation, valuation]

  2. act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of [syn: evaluation]

  3. standing or position on a scale

  4. rank in a military organization [syn: military rank, military rating, paygrade]

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Wikipedia
Rating

A rating is the evaluation or assessment of something, in terms of quality (as with a critic rating a novel), quantity (as with an athlete being rated by his or her statistics), or some combination of both.

Rating may also refer to:

  • Credit rating, estimating the credit worthiness of an individual, corporation or country
  • Fire-resistance rating, the duration for a passive fire protection to withstand a standard fire resistance test
  • Naval rating, an enlisted member of a country's Navy not conferred by commission or warrant
  • Health care provider ratings
  • Performance Rating, in computing, used by AMD
  • Ranally city rating, a tool used to classify U.S. cities based on economic function
  • Power rating, defined as the highest power input allowed to flow through particular equipment.
  • Content rating like the following:

:* Web content voting, a system where users rate Web content

:* Rating site, website that allows rating

:* Reputation system, a score for a set of objects within the community based on a collection of opinions

:* Telecommunications rating, the calculated cost of a phone call

:* United States presidential approval rating, a polling term which reflects the approval of the President of the United States

Rating (pharmaceutical industry)

Rater training is a term used in the pharmaceutical industry when raters, or those who administer the training at the sites, are trained to rate properly. This can result in inter-rater or intra-rater reliability.

Many times rater training is used in subjective trials, such as in CNS studies. Studies dealing with such indications as pain, mental disease or mood are not able to easily track progress with physical or physiological testing, rather, verbal subjective human testing is used. This can allow for an array of differences in rating.

When conducting global clinical trials, ensuring consistency is most important but can prove to be quite challenging.

Category:Rating

Rating (electrical)

The Rating of an electrical appliance indicates the voltage at which the appliance is designed to work and the current consumption at that voltage. These figures are usually displayed on a rating plate attached to the appliance, e.g. 230 volts, 3 amperes.

The rating of the appliance is related the power it consumes. Power is measured in watts and is the product of volts and amperes. The example above would have a rating of 690 watts.

Category:Electricity

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Usage examples of "rating".

There were suits from clients against the companies that had bribed for ratings, and by more insurance companies, who wanted settlements from both the bribers and RSL.

This cashless system will be readily accepted by the world because it will counteract robbery, credit card theft, poor credit ratings, and bad checks.

And Cog, that faceless fixer who seemed to have connections everywhere, had given him a high competency rating.

An expectant father, en route to see an archbishop, should not be, as he had been, rating the gluteal and the mammiform protuberances of a young woman on a scale of one-to-ten and awarding her a nine and a half.

First Hooky Walker in his strange new ship, then an obviously taut officer like Caswell for his deputy, and now, for coxswain, that most important of senior ratings, a man whom Bentley liked, and therefore, by implication, strongly recommended.

Ahrens had suddenly decided Kivrin needed another inoculation or if Dunworthy had raced off to the History Faculty and gotten them to change the rating back to a ten.

North Korea, 75, 106 N95 rating, 33 nutrition, in dealing with stress, 40-41 Oregon bioterror attacks, 23 oxytetracycline, 61 patriotism, 39 penicillin, 60 pets, emergency supplies for, 32 .

Lieutenant Dagalow was no Dosman, but she had her advanced puter rating, and could have told us how to correct the parameter problem.

The staff holds orientation meetings for these rating committees, explains the forms used for ratine the textbooks, and then sends the books to the raters.

Untersturmfuhrer Greiser rerted to Kommando 1005 with a high rating for loyalty and intelligence.

IT people or accounting people to increase their own salaries, make payments to a phony vendor, remove negative ratings from HR records, and so on.

There were times, he felt, Milt Warden never should of made this rating.

My pollster tells me that my, uh, positive job rating leaped six points.

Provost-Marshal Shappi about which revs and reps to use in this Bullball match, which I take it you interupted, when a rating entered my office unannounced.

The shift of a percentage point or two in the approval rating for a product can cause us to retool a factory or to scrap a line altogether.