English Dictionary

rate

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹeɪt/

名詞

廃用

(obsolete) The worth of something; value. / The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another. / Speed. / The relative speed of change or progress.

日本語の意味

何かの価値、値打い（古風な用法） / ある量や値に対する比率、割合 / 速度 / 変化や進行の相対的な速さ

The dealer appraised the vase and set its rate accordingly.

骨董商はその花瓶を鑑定し、それに応じて価値を定めた。

意味（1）

(obsolete) The worth of something; value.

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

意味（2）

The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

意味（3）

Speed.

The car was speeding down here at a hell of a rate.

意味（4）

The relative speed of change or progress.

The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.

意味（5）

The price of (an individual) thing; cost.

He asked quite a rate to take me to the airport.

意味（6）

A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.

Postal rates here are low.

意味（7）

A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.

We pay an hourly rate of between $10 – $15 per hour depending on qualifications and experience.

意味（8）

Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.

I hardly have enough left every month to pay the rates.

意味（9）

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

This textbook is first-rate.

意味（10）

(obsolete) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.

The one right feeble through the evil rate / Of food which in her duress she had found.

意味（11）

(obsolete) Order; arrangement.

Thus sat they all around in seemly rate.

意味（12）

(obsolete) Ratification; approval.

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.

意味（13）

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

daily rate; hourly rate; etc.

rates （ plural ）