different between desert vs rate

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English desert, deseert, from Old French deserte, from deservir (“to deserve”), from Vulgar Latin d?servi? (“to gain or merit by giving service”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??z??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??z?t/, /d??z?t/
• Homophone: dessert
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

desert (plural deserts)

2. (usually in the plural) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward
   • 1600, John Dowland, Flow My Tears

     From the highest spire of contentment / my fortune is thrown; / and fear and grief and pain for my deserts / are my hopes, since hope is gone.

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 17:

     Who will believe my verse in time to come,

     If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     "Nonsense, Mina. It is a shame to me to hear such a word. I would not hear it of you. And I shall not hear it from you. May God judge me by my deserts, and punish me with more bitter suffering than even this hour, if by any act or will of mine anything ever come between us!"

   • July 4, 1789, Alexander Hamilton, Eulogium on Major-General Greene

     His reputation falls far below his desert.

   • 1971 John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

     "It is true that certain common sense precepts of justice, particularly those which concern the protection of liberties and rights, or which express the claims of desert, seem to contradict this contention."

Usage notes

Sometimes confused with dessert, especially in set phrases such as just deserts.

Derived terms

• just deserts

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English desert (“wilderness”), from Old French desert, from Latin d?sertum, past participle of d?ser? (“to abandon”). Displaced native Old English w?sten.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?z?t/
• (General American) enPR: d?'z?(r)t, IPA^(key): /?d?z?t/

Noun

desert (countable and uncountable, plural deserts)

1. A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.
2. (figuratively) Any barren place or situation.
   • 1858, William Howitt, Land, Labour, and Gold; Or, Two Years in Victoria (page 54)

     He declared that the country was an intellectual desert; that he was famishing for spiritual aliment, and for discourse on matters beyond mere nuggets, prospectings, and the price of gold.

   • 2006, Philip N. Cooke, Creative Industries in Wales: Potential and Pitfalls (page 34)

     So the question that is commonly asked is, why put a media incubator in a media desert and have it managed by a civil servant?

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

desert (not comparable)

1. Usually of a place: abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Luke ix. 10

     He […] went aside privately into a desert place.

   • 1750, Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", Stanza 14:

     Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French déserter, from Late Latin desert?, from Latin desertus, from deser? (“abandon”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??z??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??z?t/, /d??z?t/

Verb

desert (third-person singular simple present deserts, present participle deserting, simple past and past participle deserted)

1. To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake.

2. To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Deters, deters, rested

Catalan

Etymology

First attested 14th century. From Latin d?sertum, possibly a semi-learned term.

Noun

desert m (plural deserts)

1. desert (desolate terrain)

Further reading

• “desert” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “desert” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “desert” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

References

Friulian

Alternative forms

• disiert

Etymology

From Latin d?sertum (in this form possibly a semi-learned term; cf. the variant form).

Noun

desert m (plural deserts)

1. desert

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French deserte (“deserved”), from deservir (“to deserve”), from Vulgar Latin d?servi? (“to gain or merit by giving service”).

Alternative forms

• deserte, deseert, desserte, decert, decerte, disert, dissert, dyssert

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???z?rt/, /d??z?rt/, /-s?rt/

Noun

desert (plural desertes)

2. The situation of deserving something.
3. That which is deserved or merited; desert.
4. An action or deed which invites or prompts judgement.
5. worth, virtuousness, benefit; that which is good.

Descendants

• English: desert

References

• “d??sert, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “desert, n.1.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1895

Etymology 2

From Old French desert, from Latin d?sertum, past participle of d?ser? (“to abandon”).

Alternative forms

• deserte, deseert, desarte, decert, disert, diserte, dysserte, dezert, deserd

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?z?rt/, /d??z?rt/, /d??-/, /-s?rt/, /-art/

Noun

desert (plural desertes)

2. wilderness (unpopulated, bare land)

Descendants

• English: desert
• Scots: desert

References

• “d??sert, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Adjective

desert

1. (of places) barren, wild
2. (usually of places) deserted, abandoned

Descendants

• English: desert

References

• “d??sert, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French desert.

Noun

desert m (plural desers)

1. desert (desolate terrain)

Descendants

• French: désert

Old French

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin d?sertum.

Noun

desert m (oblique plural deserz or desertz, nominative singular deserz or desertz, nominative plural desert)

1. desert (desolate terrain)

Descendants

• Middle French: desert
  • French: désert

Romanian

Etymology

From French dessert.

Noun

desert n (plural deserturi)

1. dessert

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dessert.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?sert/
• Hyphenation: de?sert

Noun

dèsert m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. dessert

Declension

Antonyms

• predjelo

References

• “desert” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?t, IPA^(key): /?e?t/,
• Rhymes: -e?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English rate, from Old French rate, from Medieval Latin rata, from Latin pr? rat? parte (“according to a fixed part”), from ratus (“fixed”), from r?r? (“think, deem, judge, estimate", originally "reckon, calculate”).

Noun

rate (plural rates)

1. (obsolete) The worth of something; value. [15th-19th centuries]
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, V.3:

     There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.

   • His natural parts were not of the first rate, but he had greatly improved them by a learned education.

2. The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another. [from the 15th century]

3. Speed. [from the 17th century]
4. The relative speed of change or progress. [from the 18th century]

5. The price of (an individual) thing; cost. [from the 16th century]

6. A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc. [from the 16th century]

7. A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.

8. Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority. [from the 17th century]

9. (nautical) A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.

10. (obsolete) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.
11. (obsolete) Order; arrangement.
12. (obsolete) Ratification; approval.
    • c. 1610s, George Chapman, Caesar and Pompey

      Tis offerd, Sir, 'boue the rate of Caesar
      In other men, but in what I approue
      Beneath his merits: which I will not faile
      T'enforce at full to Pompey, nor forget
      In any time the gratitude of my seruice.

13. (horology) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• rate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

rate (third-person singular simple present rates, present participle rating, simple past and past participle rated)

1. (transitive) To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.

   She is rated fourth in the country.

2. (transitive) To evaluate or estimate the value of.

   They rate his talents highly.

   • 1661, Robert South, False Foundations Removed (sermon)

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

3. (transitive) To consider or regard.

   He rated this book brilliant.

4. (transitive) To deserve; to be worth.

   The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.

   • 1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 101:

     Only two assistant district attorneys rate corner offices, and Mandelbaum wasn't one of them.

5. (transitive) To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.

   The transformer is rated at 10 watts.

6. (transitive, chiefly Britain) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
7. (transitive, informal) To like; to think highly of.

   The customers don't rate the new burgers.

8. (intransitive) To have position (in a certain class).

   She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world.

   He rates as the best cyclist in the country.

9. (intransitive) To have value or standing.

   This last performance of hers didn't rate very high with the judges.

10. (transitive) To ratify.
11. To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.

Synonyms

• (have position in a certain class): rank

Derived terms

• rating

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English raten (“to scold, chide”), from Old Norse hrata (“to refuse, reject, slight, find fault with”), from Proto-Germanic *hrat?n? (“to sway, shake”), from Proto-Indo-European *krad- (“to swing”). Cognate with Swedish rata (“to reject, refuse, find fault, slight”), Norwegian rata (“to reject, cast aside”), Old English hratian (“to rush, hasten”).

Verb

rate (third-person singular simple present rates, present participle rating, simple past and past participle rated)

1. (transitive) To berate, scold.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John IX:

     Then rated they hym, and sayde: Thou arte hys disciple.

   • a. 1692, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance

     Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it.

   • 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman, ch.iv:

     He beheld him, his head still muffled in the veil [...] couching, like a rated hound, upon the threshold of the chapel; but apparently without venturing to cross it;[...]a man borne down and crushed to the earth by the burden of his inward feelings.

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch.XV, Practical — Devotional

     The successful monk, on the morrow morning, hastens home to Ely [...]. The successful monk, arriving at Ely, is rated for a goose and an owl; is ordered back to say that Elmset was the place meant.

Translations

Further reading

• rate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• rate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• 'eart, Ater, Reta, aret, arte-, tare, tear, tera-

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?at/

Etymology 1

From Germanic, probably Dutch rate (literally “honeycomb”), as the cellular tissue of the spleen is said to resemble honeycomb, from Proto-Germanic *hr?t?-, from Proto-Indo-European *kreh?d-eh?-.

Noun

rate f (plural rates)

1. spleen

Derived terms

• ne pas se fouler la rate

Etymology 2

rat +? -e

Noun

rate f (plural rates, masculine rat)

1. female equivalent of rat; female rat

Derived terms

• se mettre la rate au court-bouillon

Verb

rate

1. first-person singular present indicative of rater
2. third-person singular present indicative of rater
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of rater
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of rater
5. second-person singular imperative of rater

References

Anagrams

• âtre, tare, taré

Further reading

• “rate” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?t?

Verb

rate

1. inflection of raten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

   Rate mal, wer gerade gekommen ist! - Guess who's just arrived.

2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I of raten

Interlingua

Noun

rate (plural rates)

1. A raft.

Italian

Noun

rate f

1. plural of rata

Anagrams

• arte, atre, erta, etra, tare, trae

Ladin

Verb

rate

1. first-person singular present indicative of rater
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of rater
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of rater
4. third-person plural present subjunctive of rater

Latin

Adjective

rate

1. vocative masculine singular of ratus

Noun

rate

1. ablative singular of ratis

Makasar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rat?]

Adverb

rate (Lontara spelling ???)

1. above

   Antonym: rawa

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

rate f (plural rates)

1. (Jersey, anatomy) spleen

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin (pro) rata

Noun

rate m (definite singular raten, indefinite plural rater, definite plural ratene)

1. rate
2. instalment (UK) or installment (US)

   månedlige rater - monthly instalments

Derived terms

• dødsrate
• fødselsrate

References

• “rate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin (pro) rata

Noun

rate m (definite singular raten, indefinite plural ratar, definite plural ratane)

1. rate
2. instalment (UK) or installment (US)

   månadlege ratar - monthly instalments

Derived terms

• dødsrate
• fødselsrate

References

• “rate” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

rate (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. vocative singular of rat