(v. t.) To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
(v. t.) To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
(v. t.) To leave out; to except.
(v. t.) To remove.
(v. t.) To deprive of.
(v. i.) To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.
(v. i.) To waste away.
(v. t.) To attack; to bait.
() imp. of Bite.
(v. i.) To flutter as a hawk; to bait.
(n.) See 2d Bath.
(n.) An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.
(v. t.) To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
(2) A search of the medical records from 1940 to 1975 at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco and Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley has revealed only 3 cases of carcinoma within a urethral diverticulum.
(3) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
(4) The pulmonary diffusing capacity (DLCO) was measured in 13 healthy subjects during heart catheterization by the steady-state method (according to Bates and his coworkers).
(5) That could make it more difficult to gain a majority decision to change monetary policy in either direction," says Nick Bate, economist at Bank of America in London.
(6) Bates also rebuked the agency for misrepresenting the true scope of a major collection program for the third time in three years.
(7) Unsurprisingly, Laura Bates turned to an anonymous talkboard to ask for help soon after she founded the Everyday Sexism Project 18 months ago.
(8) Three prototype robots – “SwarmBots” – have been tested on the Bate family property near Emerald and, by mid-2017, will be available to farmers in other parts of Australia on a fee-for-service basis.
(9) Ouseley's pressure group, Kick It Out , has been hugely effective, and Bates has gone on to become a vocal campaigner against racism.
(10) He has a Nobel Prize in economics (also the John Bates Clark award for best economist under 40).
(11) Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates is published by Simon & Schuster inspring 2014.
(12) Both were directed by Harold Pinter and both starred Alan Bates, who was to become intimately associated with Gray's plays.
(13) David is preparing a counterclaim against GFH for monies owed to him and which are in excess of the amount of the claim made against him by GFH.” Haigh played a key role in GFHC’s takeover of Leeds from Ken Bates in December 2012 and also introduced Massimo Cellino, the present owner, to the club.
(14) The Ti1 pioneer neurons arise at the distal tip of the metathoracic leg in the grasshopper embryo, and are the first neurons in the limb bud to extend axons to the central nervous system (C. M. Bate (1976) Nature (London) 260, 54-56; H. Keshishian (1980) Dev.
(15) In an article for the Guardian two days later , Bate wrote that no reason had been given and that he understood that Carol Hughes, who controls her husband’s estate, had been happy with how he planned to research and present the work.
(16) Maurice Bates is interim co-chair of the College of Social Work This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional.
(17) Bates was born in Allestree, Derbyshire; and, although Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet had "a very poor opinion of young men who live in Derbyshire", Bates made the most of its artistic possibilities.
(18) Some may want a book that offers some escape – in which case the quirky English humour of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle may do the trick, or a pick-me-up dose of HE Bates 's The Darling Buds of May .
(19) And, apart from appearing in plays at his Belper grammar school, Bates became a regular visitor to Derby Playhouse, where he admired the work of two unknown actors, and later friends, John Osborne and John Dexter.
(20) Until recently, Bates would have considered herself the last person qualified to answer that question.
Rate
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.
(n.) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
(n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.
(n.) Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.
(n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.
(n.) Order; arrangement.
(n.) Ratification; approval.
(n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
(n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.
(n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.
(v. t.) To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.
(v. t.) To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.
(v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.
(v. t.) To ratify.
(v. i.) To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.
(v. i.) To make an estimate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Child benefit has already been withdrawn from higher rate taxpayers.
(2) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(3) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(4) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
(5) The proportion of motile spermatozoa decreased with time at the same rate when samples were prepared in either HEPES or phosphate buffers.
(6) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(7) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(8) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(9) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(10) By combined histologic and cytologic examinations, the overall diagnostic rate was raised to 87.7%.
(11) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
(12) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(13) The second amino acid residue influences not only the rate of reaction but also the extent of formation of the product of the Amadori rearrangement, the ketoamine.
(14) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
(15) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
(16) This clinical improvement was also associated with a decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (p less than 0.001), decrease of C-reactive protein (p less than 0.0001) and with improvement of anaemia (p less than 0.05).
(17) This difference is probably secondary to the different rates of delivery of furosemide into urine.
(18) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
(19) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(20) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.