'Rating' definitions:
Definition of 'rating'
(from WordNet)
noun
An appraisal of the value of something; "he set a high valuation on friendship" [syn: evaluation, valuation, rating]
noun
Act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of [syn: evaluation, rating]
noun
Standing or position on a scale
noun
Definition of 'Rating'
From: GCIDE
- Rate \Rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rated; p. pr. & vb. n. Rating.]
- 1. To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree. [1913 Webster]
- To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible. --South. [1913 Webster]
- You seem not high enough your joys to rate. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To assess for the payment of a rate or tax. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To ratify. [Obs.] "To rate the truce." --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- To rate a chronometer, to ascertain the exact rate of its gain or loss as compared with true time, so as to make an allowance or computation dependent thereon. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To value; appraise; estimate; reckon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rating'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse,
- admonishment,
- admonition,
- analysis,
- analyzing,
- appraisal,
- appraisement,
- appraising,
- appreciation,
- apprizal,
- approximation,
- arrangement,
- assailing,
- assault,
- assessing,
- assessment,
- assize,
- assizement,
- attack,
- bank credit,
- berating,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- blood,
- book credit,
- borrowing power,
- bracket,
- branch,
- calculation,
- cash credit,
- caste,
- castigation,
- cataloging,
- categorization,
- category,
- chastisement,
- chiding,
- clan,
- class,
- classification,
- codification,
- commercial credit,
- computation,
- condition,
- consumer credit,
- contumely,
- correction,
- credit,
- credit insurance,
- credit rating,
- credit union,
- determination,
- diatribe,
- division,
- dual pricing,
- echelon,
- estate,
- estimate,
- estimation,
- evaluating,
- evaluation,
- evaluative criticism,
- execration,
- filing,
- footing,
- gauging,
- grade,
- grading,
- group,
- grouping,
- hard words,
- head,
- heading,
- hierarchy,
- hire purchase plan,
- indexing,
- installment credit,
- installment plan,
- instrumentation,
- invective,
- investment credit,
- jawing,
- jeremiad,
- kin,
- label,
- lecture,
- lesson,
- level,
- line of credit,
- measure,
- measurement,
- measuring,
- mensuration,
- metric system,
- never-never,
- objurgation,
- onslaught,
- opinion,
- order,
- philippic,
- pigeonhole,
- pigeonholing,
- place,
- placement,
- position,
- power structure,
- precedence,
- predicament,
- price determination,
- pricing,
- quantification,
- quantization,
- race,
- ranging,
- rank,
- ranking,
- rate,
- rebuke,
- reckoning,
- reprehension,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- reprobation,
- reproof,
- reproval,
- revilement,
- rubric,
- scolding,
- screed,
- section,
- sept,
- sermon,
- set,
- sorting,
- spanking,
- sphere,
- stage,
- standing,
- station,
- status,
- strain,
- stratification,
- stratum,
- subdivision,
- subgroup,
- suborder,
- survey,
- surveying,
- tabulation,
- tax credit,
- taxonomy,
- telemetering,
- telemetry,
- tick,
- tirade,
- title,
- tongue-lashing,
- triangulation,
- trust,
- typology,
- unit pricing,
- upbraiding,
- valuation,
- valuing,
- view,
- vilification,
- vituperation,
- weighing
Words containing 'Rating'
- Rate,
- Rated,
- at any rate,
- rates,
- A cut in rates,
- At a round rate,
- Church rate,
- County rates,
- Death rate,
- Life rate,
- Poor rate,
- To cut rates,
- To rate a chronometer,
- Water rate,
- absentee rate,
- at an equal rate,
- attrition rate,
- bank rate,
- bargain rate,
- base rate,
- baud rate,
- birth rate,
- bond rating,
- credit rating,
- crime rate,
- cut rate,
- data rate,
- depreciation rate,
- discount rate,
- dose rate,
- exchange rate,
- excursion rate,
- fatality rate,
- fertility rate,
- first rate,
- flow rate,
- freight rate,
- growth rate,
- heart rate,
- inflation rate,
- installment rate,
- interest rate,
- metabolic rate,
- military rating,
- mortality rate,
- nyquist rate,
- occupancy rate,
- octane rating,
- pay rate,
- payment rate,
- poor rates,
- pulse rate,
- rate of attrition,
- rate of depreciation,
- rate of exchange,
- rate of flow,
- rate of growth,
- rate of inflation,
- rate of interest,
- rate of pay,
- rate of payment,
- rate of respiration,
- rate of return,
- rating system,
- repayment rate,
- respiratory rate,
- room rate,
- sampling rate,
- second rate,
- sed rate,
- sedimentation rate,
- tax rate,
- third rate,
- turnover rate,
- unemployment rate,
- vacancy rate,
- Dun and Bradstreet rating,
- First-rate,
- Second-rate,
- basal metabolic rate,
- cut-rate,
- erythrocyte sedimentation rate,
- fuel consumption rate,
- infant mortality rate,
- neonatal mortality rate,
- postal rate commission,
- prime interest rate,
- third-rate,
- water-rate,
- x-rated,
- Variable-rate mortgage,
- cut cut-rate,
- cut-rate sale