(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(1) Child benefit has already been withdrawn from higher rate taxpayers.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.
Yate
Definition:
(n.) A gate. See 1st Gate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two lunches are recoded with John Yates and Andy Hayman, the former assistant commissioners.
(2) X2 test, with Yates correction if need, was used as statistical.
(3) John Yates, a Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, was criticised by the Conservative chairman of the Commons culture and media select committee, John Whittingdale, for failing to disclose information to MPs, but the Yard continues to refuse to say how many victims it has warned, and how many members of the royal household, military, police and government have been warned of evidence that Mulcaire intercepted their voicemail.
(4) This difference is highly significant (kappa 2 with Yates' correction = 11.7, P < 0.001).
(5) Yates and the BBC also cautioned that the project remains in the early stages of development, with no script or cast, and will not reach cinemas for several years.
(6) Watson suggested that Yates had been wrong to claim there had been only a small number of victims at a time when he knew this material had still not been analysed.Yates acknowledged that police had failed to contact all potential victims.
(7) Experts in the law on interception dismissed as "nonsense" the claim by Yates that the hacking into voicemails could not be investigated if the victim had already listened to messages.
(8) Statements by John Yates John Yates told fellow senior officers that budget cuts would weaken the ability to resist attack from al-Qaida-inspired terrorists.
(9) In the House of Commons last week, Chris Bryant MP said that Yates had misled the committees by claiming that it is illegal to hack voicemail messages only if they have not already been heard by the intended recipient.
(10) Despite recommendations to the contrary, medical researchers still routinely use the Yates-corrected chi-square statistic in analyses of 2 x 2 contingency tables.
(11) In a statement, Scotland Yard said: "Assistant commissioner John Yates has this afternoon indicated his intention to resign to the chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA).
(12) A cis-acting DNA sequence previously described within the BamHI-C fragment of the EBV genome (J. Yates, N. Warren, D. Reisman, and B. Sugden, Proc.
(13) After an itinerant childhood, overshadowed by abandonment and infidelity, Yates claimed to have experimented with sex and heroin at an early age.
(14) It also emerged today that the Home Office questioned the decision by Scotland Yard's assistant commissioner, John Yates, not to reopen the Met's phone-tapping investigation.
(15) John Yates Assistant commissioner specialist operations, Metropolitan Police Service
(16) In a letter to John Whittingdale, chairman of the culture, media and sport select committee, Yates – who was responsible for dealing with the hacking affair for nearly 20 months – gave no explanation for the failure to inform more than 36 potential victims.
(17) A spokeswoman for Vaz said he had received a reply from Yates and the committee is likely to make it public in due course.
(18) Of the remaining nine glands, only five were localized accurately (P less than 0.01, chi 2 test including Yates' correction).
(19) Stephen Yates, an adviser to the former vice-president Dick Cheney, told reporters the telephone call was “an important step in the direction that many of us have long advocated” but cautioned against over-interpreting the contact.
(20) But fans of the current Doctor, Matt Smith, could be disappointed, as Yates said that the film would be "quite a radical transformation" from the latest BBC1 series which ended in October.