What's the difference between overrate and overvalue?

Overrate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To rate or value too highly.
  • (n.) An excessive rate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most widely used source of drug information for doctors is the industry-sponsored Physicians' Desk Reference, which overrates the therapeutic value of Valium and Librium as compared to disinterested medical sources.
  • (2) Focal infection, although in general overrated in its importance for the general organism, may pose some problems before heart surgery and antibiotic therapy previously may seem necessary.
  • (3) The histological data are thus consistent with the electrophysiological data, which indicate that present standards for impulse noise exposure may overrate the hazard of low-frequency impulses relative to impulses in the midrange.
  • (4) Consistent with previous research, overrating children showed higher self-esteem on self- and teacher ratings than underraters.
  • (5) Robert Southey thought it entirely overrated and “by no means deserving of the encomiums which are passed upon it”.
  • (6) While levels of inhalant use are comparatively high, the tendency to overrate this use and to label all Indian youth as inhalant abusers must be avoided.
  • (7) The ability of a manager to be the driving force of a team is overrated, even when you associate historic teams (think the 1950s Yankees) with great managers (think Casey Stengel).
  • (8) The results correlated with the chick-growth assays (r 0.99 for DBL, P less than 0.001; 0.85 for Tetrahymena, P less than 0.01) but both methods overrated the poorer-quality samples.
  • (9) The danger of overrating the therapeutic potential of antibiotics is emphasized, and despite major advances in chemotherapy the discrimination between pathologies preferably treated surgically or conservatively has by no means changes.
  • (10) For the others, it’s about understanding that credibility and taste can be overrated concepts when genuine belly laughs are on offer.
  • (11) The average duration of time spent in a standing position was considerably underrated by the workers, while the duration of sitting was strongly overrated when compared with the ratings obtained with the observational method.
  • (12) (Fry, incidentally, contends that his influence through Twitter is vastly overrated, because his followers – doubtless soon to number a round a million – have independent minds of their own.
  • (13) Therefore Meryl Streep is “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood”, and “Crooked Hillary’s brainpower is highly over-rated”, and Republican Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is “overrated”, and NBC anchor Megyn Kelly is “highly overrated”.
  • (14) 8.46pm GMT 39 mins I know goals are overrated but ... yeah, this game could do with one.
  • (15) However, black Caribbean girls tended to be underrated in both reading and maths, while teachers were prone to underrate Pakistani girls in reading and overrate Bangladeshi boys in maths.
  • (16) The need for vancomycin as therapy for extensive soft tissue infections with MRSA may be overrated and probably contributes to the development of increasing antibiotic resistance.
  • (17) Donald Trump has responded on Twitter to Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes speech, calling her an “overrated actress” and a “Hillary flunky”.
  • (18) All we now know about the cold war shows that western (and, of course, Soviet) intelligence services persistently overrated their enemies' capabilities, and sometimes also their intentions.
  • (19) Discrepancies were found between the expected utilization and actual utilization, and a tendency was noted to overrate self-reported utilization in relation to actual utilization.
  • (20) It is the same, incidentally, whenever the planning minister, Nick Boles, says fields are overrated and the green belt should be built on.

Overvalue


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To value excessively; to rate at too high a price.
  • (v. t.) To exceed in value.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The carbon bubble refers to the overvaluation of fossil fuel reserves and related assets should the world meet its stated objective of limiting climate change.
  • (2) "The current massive overvaluation of the Swiss franc poses an acute threat to the Swiss economy and carries the risk of a deflationary development," said Switzerland's central bank.
  • (3) Ocado's float plan has been criticised from the outset, with analysts and institutional investors insisting the business was overvalued.
  • (4) In a hard-hitting report on the countries facing macroeconomic imbalances, such as overvalued housing markets or hefty government debts, the European commission identified a total of 13 member states – including France, the Netherlands and Belgium – which it said should take urgent action to restore the health of their economies.
  • (5) The value of Brazil's currency, the real, has ballooned since President Lula took power, leaving exporters despondent and leading Goldman Sachs to classify it as the most overvalued currency on earth.
  • (6) A phenomenological explanation, the belief of pregnancy as an overvalued idea, is discussed.
  • (7) That is leading to a so-called carbon bubble, an overvaluation of oil companies' financial value, they have said .
  • (8) The result is that students will go for the overvalued qualifications and shun those which are undervalued.
  • (9) Fathom argues instead for changes that would direct any fresh electronic cash at what it sees as the source of the UK's economic crisis: an overvalued UK housing market.
  • (10) The patients with the left lesion were more characterized by psychastheniclike features, motor inhibition with marked rigidity and emotive poverty, torpidity of affects, hypochondriasis, readiness for overvalued formations.
  • (11) It also cites the bailout of banks involved in lending too much against "overvalued assets", saying: "Taxpayers have consequently been participants and losers in a process of unsustainable public service delivery."
  • (12) More specifically, the role of nurses who control the therapeutic milieu and provide 24-hour patient management within the inpatient setting has become devalued, while the newer role of the nurse in the outpatient settings is not only overvalued but is, in many instances, in conflict with the outpatient psychiatric services offered by other professions.
  • (13) We must try to build pressure to try to make that 2C assumption correct and the forecast of the energy companies wrong.” Stern’s intervention comes after Shell CEO Ben van Beurden told the Guardian that his company would continue to look for new reserves of oil and did not believe its assets were overvalued or unusable as a result of current or reasonably foreseeable future legislation concerning carbon.
  • (14) China’s currency no longer looks undervalued; it looks overvalued, making life a lot tougher for Chinese exporters competing with other Asian countries, including Japan, that have seen devaluations.
  • (15) The carbon bubble refers to the overvaluation of fossil fuel reserves and related assets should the world meet its stated aim of limiting climate change.
  • (16) Oracle said they weren't buyers because even at $6bn – Autonomy's stockmarket value at the time – it was overvalued.
  • (17) The Swiss central bank stunned markets by attempting to reverse the "massive overvaluation" of the Swiss franc, which hit record highs against the dollar as a perceived haven, by cutting interest rates.
  • (18) It wanted slower but more sustainable growth that gradually took the heat out of overvalued property and share prices.
  • (19) It must stay shackled to an overvalued rate of exchange lest the great European cause suffer and ever closer union be tarnished.
  • (20) "The penis is much overvalued," he declared to Connie.

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