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Kate


Definition:

  • (n.) The brambling finch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kate Connolly , Ian Traynor and Siobhán Dowling cover the "guilt and resentment" Germany's savers feel over pressure to do more to end the euro crisis.
  • (2) (“The Dynasty of Bush” sounds like a terribly disparaging term for Linda Evans, Kate O’Mara and Joan Collins .
  • (3) Kate Cernik and Mandy Wearne examine the concept and its importance to health visitors and community nurses and ask what is involved in the profiling process and who should be doing it.
  • (4) Kate Garraway and Dan Lobb, currently part of the Daybreak team, could also see their roles boosted in the Daybreak reshuffle.
  • (5) Cameron will be accused of attempting to pack the Lords with reliable supporters including Kate Fall, his deputy chief of staff, James O’Shaughnessy, a former head of policy at No 10, and Simone Finn, Francis Maude’s former special adviser.
  • (6) The comedy extravaganza featured an array of TV, music and sports stars, including David Beckham, Kate Moss and Robbie Williams.
  • (7) Peter Moffat (Criminal Justice) I had a meeting at the BBC yesterday with Ben Stephenson, Kate Harwood, Manda Levin and Hilary Salmon.
  • (8) MPs including Chuka Umunna, Stephen Doughty and Kate Green won the backing of 101 MPs, including 49 Labour rebels, for their amendment to the Queen’s speech, which called for the government to abandon the idea that “no deal is better than a bad deal” in the Brexit talks.
  • (9) Kate Waters, the chief strategy officer at Now and a member of the Women in Advertising and Communications London group, said: “I’ve had comments about what I wear, that it might be appropriate to wear a shorter skirt to a meeting, for instance.” A 55-year-old account director, who used to work for Saatchi & Saatchi, said while it was mostly a good company to work for, “it was taken for granted that female execs were there to look pretty and distract clients”.
  • (10) For the second show in the Guardian’s 10-week radio series on NTS, Alexis talked to the Guide’s Kate Hutchinson about glam’s early innovators, forgotten outliers and its modern descendants: T Rex to David Bowie and Iron Virgin to Perfume Genius.
  • (11) Click here to view In The Other Woman, Cameron Diaz , Leslie Mann and Kate Upton team up to declare an all-out, scorched-earth War Of The Scorned Blondes against philandering husband Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
  • (12) The same refusal to back down characterised his dispute with Norman Mailer, whose attitudes towards women had brought rebukes from Gloria Steinem and Kate Millett.
  • (13) Only these ones didn't have big pictures of Kate and Wills, but focused on things such as their own wages and crappy working conditions .
  • (14) katE hybridized with C. freundii and K. pneumoniae DNAs and not with the other bacterial DNAs.
  • (15) A naturalised British subject, he spent most of his working life in London and was frequently seen at the most salubrious bars and restaurants, often in the company of beautiful young women such as Kate Moss, who he once painted.
  • (16) They solve it, correctly, by making him abdicate, with a bit of help from Prince William’s wife, Kate.
  • (17) The Spirit Level, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, 2009 Written in the midst of the financial crisis, The Spirit Level attempted to show how countries with wide income disparities tended to face more social problems – more crime, more violence, more drug abuse, worse education, and less social mobility.
  • (18) "So sad to hear of the loss of Nils Horner: a serious-minded, well-informed, humane reporter," said Kabul-based analyst Kate Clark.
  • (19) I was flicking through a copy of this month's Vogue and there's Kate Moss topless.
  • (20) Clearly angry and upset, Kate McCann said: "We need to make it clear to people: we took on this case because of the pain and distress that Mr Amaral has brought to us and our children.

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.

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