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Synonyms for rated

Grammar : Adj
Spell : reyt
Phonetic Transcription : reɪt

Définition of rated

Origin :
  • "estimated value or worth," early 15c., from Old French rate "price, value" and directly from Medieval Latin rata (pars) "fixed (amount)," from Latin rata "fixed, settled," fem. past participle of reri "to reckon, think" (see reason (n.)). Meaning "degree of speed" (prop. ratio between distance and time) is attested from 1650s. Currency exchange sense first recorded 1727. First-rate, second-rate, etc. are 1640s, from British Navy division of ships into six classes based on size and strength. Phrase at any rate originally (1610s) meant "at any cost;" weakened sense of "at least" is attested by 1760.
  • adj ranked
Example sentences :
  • Roughly shaking the Cossack, I woke him up, rated him, and lost my temper.
  • Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
  • I thought she rated Kenelm Parker about as high as anybody these days.
  • Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • A generator operates most efficiently when delivering its rated output.
  • Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte
  • The style and literary ability of John Blacman must be rated very low.
  • Extract from : « Henry the Sixth » by John Blacman
  • The preceptorial work is rated at more than half of the entire work of the term.
  • Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
  • Mrs. Vint rated him soundly for keeping all this secret so long.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 » by Various
  • As an acolyte, after all, he rated just barely above a layman; he had no powers whatever.
  • Extract from : « Pagan Passions » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • At the end of the performance he sent for the leader of the claque and rated him soundly.
  • Extract from : « Artists' Wives » by Alphonse Daudet
  • On this I was rated as purser at twenty-five cents for the trip.
  • Extract from : « A Labrador Doctor » by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
  • He stormed and rated like an absolute monarch, and an absolute monarch he soon became.
  • Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton

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