<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation: a high rate of interest on loans.</li><li>A certain quantity or amount of one thing considered in relation to a unit of another thing and used as a standard or measure: at the rate of 60 miles an hour.</li><li>A fixed charge per unit of quantity: a rate of 10 cents a pound.</li><li>Price; cost: to cut rates on all home furnishings.</li><li>Degree of speed, progress, etc.: to work at a rapid rate.</li><li>Degree or comparative extent of action or procedure: the rate of increase in work output.</li><li>Relative condition or quality; grade, class, or sort.</li><li>Assigned position in any of a series of graded classes; rating.</li><li>Insurance: the premium charge per unit of insurance.</li><li>A charge by a common carrier for transportation, sometimes including certain services involved in rendering such transportation.</li><li>A wage paid on a specified time basis: a salary figured on an hourly rate.</li><li>A charge or price established in accordance with a scale or standard: hotel rates based on length of stay.</li><li>Horology: the relative adherence of a timepiece to perfect timekeeping, measured in terms of the amount of time gained or lost within a certain period.</li><li>Usually rates: British. A tax on property for some local purpose.</li><li>Any tax assessed and paid to a local government, as any city tax or district tax.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Noting a number of items determined by an actual count: The box is labeled 50 count.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>To estimate the value or worth of; appraise: to rate a student's class performance.</li><li>To esteem, consider, or account: He was rated one of the best writers around.</li><li>To fix at a certain rate, as of charge or payment.</li><li>To value for purposes of taxation or the like.</li><li>To make subject to the payment of a certain rate or tax.</li><li>To place in a certain rank, class, etc., as a ship or a sailor; give a specific rating to.</li><li>To be considered or treated as worthy of; merit: an event that doesn't even rate a mention in most histories of the period.</li><li>To arrange for the conveyance of (goods) at a certain rate.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>To have value, standing, etc.: a performance that didn't rate very high in the competition.</li><li>To have position in a certain class.</li><li>To rank very high in estimation: The new teacher really rates with our class.</li></ul>