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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"estimate the worth or value of," mid-15c., from rate (n.). Intransitive sense of "have a certain value, rank, or standing" is from 1809; specifically as "have high value" from 1928. Related: Rated ; rating .
Usage examples of rate.
At any rate she had a jesting air, and the bystanders noticed that she pronounced the words of her abjuration with a smile.
As, however, the aggregation caused by this salt travels down the tentacles at a quicker rate than when insoluble particles are placed on the glands, it is probable that ammonia in some form is absorbed not only by the glands, but passes down the tentacles.
Similarly, the Iraqis have always had abysmal maintenance practices, and an operational readiness rate of 65 percent is the norm in many combat units.
At the rate they were accelerating toward the inner surface, the braking needed to stop them would shortly exceed even the 1.
Mere minutes after the decoys had completed their burns, six COREs, accelerating at a terrifying rate, suddenly lifted out of orbit toward the decoys.
Court declared that: After a legislative body has fairly and fully investigated and acted, by fixing what it believes to be reasonable rates, the courts cannot step in and say its action shall be set aside because the courts, upon similar investigation, have come to a different conclusion as to the reasonableness of the rates fixed.
When that has been done, the burden rests on the regulated company to show that this item has neither been adequately covered in the rate base nor recouped from prior earnings of the business.
Combination rate-a discounted rate paid by an advertiser who commits to running space in various publications owned and operated by the same company.
Gloucestershire Bert went northward to the British aeronautic park outside Birmingham, in the hope that he might be taken on and given food, for there the Government, or at any rate the War Office, still existed as an energetic fact, concentrated amidst collapse and social disaster upon the effort to keep the British flag still flying in the air, and trying to brisk up mayor and mayor and magistrate and magistrate in a new effort of organisation.
The silvery aeroplane was rushing through the atmosphere at a great rate.
After numberless trials with fresh leaves immersed in a solution of this strength, I have never seen the aggregating action transmitted at nearly so slow a rate.
At any rate, it was believed at least in Prague and London that Hitler was about to launch aggression against Czechoslovakia.
At any rate, there are no pinnacles to the aisle buttresses on the north side, and, consequently, no flying buttresses.
Part of this desirable alkalizing effect would be negated if the stomach were to continue to produce its own acid secretions at a great rate after the food had left it.
That, at any rate, was the picture Alsa had painted in her piece about him.