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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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• (South African) IPA^(key): /test/

Etymology 1

From Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”). See terra, thirst.

Noun

test (plural tests)

1. A challenge, trial.
2. A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
3. (academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.
4. A session in which a product or piece of equipment is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
5. (cricket, normally “Test”) A Test match.
6. (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
7. (botany) Testa; seed coat.
8. (obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

Synonyms

• (challenge, trial): See Thesaurus:test
• (academics: examination): examination, quiz

Antonyms

• (academics: examination): recess

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

1. To challenge.

   Climbing the mountain tested our stamina.

2. To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
3. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.

   to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument

   • September 17, 1796, George Washington, Farewell Address

     Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution.

4. (academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
5. To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
6. (copulative) To be shown to be by test.
   • 2015, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Harry Levi Hollingworth, Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development

     It is probable that children who test above 180 IQ are actually present in our juvenile population in greater frequency than at the rate of one in a million.

7. (chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.

   to test a solution by litmus paper

Descendants

• German: testen

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English teste, from Old French teste, test and Latin testis (“one who attests, a witness”).

Noun

test (plural tests)

1. (obsolete) A witness.
   • 1523-1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles

     Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the more surety tests of that deed.

Verb

test (third-person singular simple present tests, present participle testing, simple past and past participle tested)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a testament, or will.

Related terms

• attest
• contest
• detest
• protest

Etymology 3

Clipping of testosterone.

Noun

test (uncountable)

1. (informal, slang, body building) testosterone

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ETTs, Etts, TETS, TETs, Tets, sett, stet, tets

Breton

Noun

test

1. witness

Catalan

Etymology 1

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

Noun

test m (plural testos)

1. flowerpot
2. piece of clay

Etymology 2

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

Noun

test m (plural tests)

1. test (exam or challenge)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?st]
• Hyphenation: test

Noun

test m inan

1. test

Declension

Derived terms

• testovat
• testovací
• testový

Further reading

• test in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• test in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From English test.

Noun

test

1. test (clarification of this definition is needed)

Further reading

• “test” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/
• Hyphenation: test
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English test.

Noun

test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)

1. test

Synonyms

• experiment
• proef

Derived terms

• geluidstest
• piepjestest
• shuttleruntest
• sneltest
• testen

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: tes

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch test, from Old French test, from Latin testum, from testa.

Noun

test m (plural testen or tests, diminutive testje n)

1. A test, an earthen bowl or pot.
2. A test, a cupel (used in smelting).

Derived terms

• vergiettest
• vuurtest

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tessie

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Etymology 1

From Old French test, from Latin testum. The orthography of this form reflects semi-learned influence; compare the doublet têt.

Noun

test m (plural tests)

1. test, a cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
2. (marine biology) test, the external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English test, itself from the same Old French test as above.

Noun

test m (plural tests)

1. a test, a tryout, a review

Derived terms

• tester

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??t]
• Hyphenation: test
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

test (plural testek)

1. (anatomy) body
2. (geometry) solid (three-dimensional figure)
3. (algebra) field (commutative ring)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• test in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English test.

Noun

test m (invariable)

1. test

Ladin

Noun

test m (plural [please provide])

1. text

Latvian

Verb

test (?? missing information., ?? conj., pres. ??, past ??)

1. to beat
2. to knock about
3. to flog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From English test

Noun

test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural tester, definite plural testene)

1. a test

Derived terms

• synstest

Related terms

• teste

Etymology 2

Verb

test

1. imperative of teste

References

• “test” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English test

Noun

test m (definite singular testen, indefinite plural testar, definite plural testane)

1. a test

Derived terms

• synstest

References

• “test” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin testum.

Noun

test m (oblique plural tez or tetz, nominative singular tez or tetz, nominative plural test)

1. (uncountable) clay
2. (countable) a pot, usually made out of clay

Descendants

• French: test
• French: têt
• ? Middle English: test
  • English: test (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: test
• ? Middle High German: test
  • German: Test

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (test)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?st/

Noun

test m inan

1. test

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From French test.

Noun

test n (plural teste)

1. test

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /têst/

Noun

t?st m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. test (challenge, trial)
2. test (academics)
3. test (product examination)

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?test/, [?t?est?]

Noun

test m (plural tests)

1. test

   Synonym: prueba

Swedish

Noun

test c or n

1. a test, an examination, a trial
2. a test, an attempt, an experiment
3. a piece of hair c

Declension

Synonyms

• examen
• försök
• experiment
• prov
• skrivning
• tofs
• tuss

Related terms

• betatest
• hårtest
• testa

Anagrams

• sett

Turkish

Etymology

From English test.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?test/
• Hyphenation: test

Noun

test (definite accusative testi, plural testler)

1. test

Declension

Derived terms