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Rate can be a noun or a verb.
rate used as a noun:
- An amount measured in relation to another amount.
"The car was speeding at a rate of ninety kilometres per hour." - A price or fee determined in relation to a particular scale or standard.
"The central bank sets an interest rate." - A price per unit for a service or product.
"Postal rates here are low." - The relative speed of change or progress.
"The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing." - A measure of the frequency of a given event, typically expressed as the number of occurrences of the event for every thousand or hundred thousand people in the total population considered.
"The mortality rate in the country was unusually high." - Wages calculated in relation to a unit of time.
"The pay rate is ten dollars per hour." - A level of quality.
"This textbook is first rate."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
rate used as a verb:
- To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
"She is rated fourth in the country." - To evaluate or estimate the value of.
"They rate his talents highly." - To consider or regard.
"He rated this book brilliant." - To deserve; to be worth.
"The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide." - To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
"The transformer is rated at 10 watts." - (chiefly ) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
- To like; to think highly of.
"The customers don't rate the new burgers." - To have position (in a certain class).
"She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world." - To have value or standing.
"This last performance of her's didn't rate very high with the judges." - To berate.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is rate?
- Noun usage: The car was speeding at a rate of ninety kilometres per hour.
- Noun usage: The central bank sets an interest rate.
- Noun usage: Postal rates here are low.
- Noun usage: The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.
- Noun usage: The mortality rate in the country was unusually high.
- Noun usage: The pay rate is ten dollars per hour.
- Noun usage: This textbook is first rate.
- Verb usage: She is rated fourth in the country.
- Verb usage: They rate his talents highly.
- Verb usage: He rated this book brilliant.
- Verb usage: The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.
- Verb usage: The transformer is rated at 10 watts.
- Verb usage: The customers don't rate the new burgers.
- Verb usage: She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world.
- Verb usage: He rates as the best cyclist in the country.
- Verb usage: This last performance of her's didn't rate very high with the judges.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of rate are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of rate, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
