different between rate vs group

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

English

Alternative forms

• groop (non-standard)
• groupe (obsolete)

Etymology

From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”). Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”), Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”), Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gro?op, IPA^(key): /??u?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Noun

group (plural groups)

1. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

2. (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
   • 1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192,

     Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.

   • 1992, Svetlana Katok, Fuchsian Groups, University of Chicago Press, page 112,

     In this chapter we give some examples of Fuchsian groups. The most interesting and important ones are the so-called "arithmetic" Fuchsian groups, i.e., discrete subgroups of PSL(2,R) obtained by some "arithmetic" operations. One such construction we have already seen: if we choose all matrices of SL(2,R) with integer coefficients, then the corresponding elements of PSL(2,R) form the modular group PSL(2,Z).

   • 2007, Zhong-Qi Ma, Group Theory for Physicists, World Scientific, page 277,

     In Chap. 4 the fundamental concepts on Lie groups have been introduced through the SO(3) group and its covering group SU(2).

3. (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
4. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

5. (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
6. (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
7. (chemistry) A functional group.

8. (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
9. (military) An air force formation.
10. (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
11. (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
12. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
13. (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
14. (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
15. (business) A commercial organization.

Synonyms

• (number of things or persons being in some relation to each other): collection, set
• (people who perform music together): band, ensemble
• See also Thesaurus:group

Hypernyms

• (in group theory): monoid

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• subgroup

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Gulf Arabic: ?????
• ? Japanese: ???? (gur?pu)
• ? Korean: ?? (geurup)
• ? Tongan: kulupu

Translations

References

• group on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

group (third-person singular simple present groups, present participle grouping, simple past and past participle grouped)

1. (transitive) To put together to form a group.

   group the dogs by hair colour

2. (intransitive) To come together to form a group.

Synonyms

• (put together to form a group): amass, categorise/categorize, classify, collect, collect up, gather, gather together, gather up; see also Thesaurus:round up
• (come together to form a group): assemble, begather, foregather, throng; see also Thesaurus:assemble

Translations

Further reading

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