0 past simple and past participle of rate
1 to judge the value or character of someone or something:
informal "What do you think of her as a singer?" "I don't really rate her (= I do not think that she is very good)."
I rate cars as one of the worst polluters of the environment.
[ + obj + noun ] On a scale of one to ten, I'd rate his book a five.
Traffic accidents are so frequent that they don't rate a mention (= are not considered to be worth reporting) in the newspaper unless a lot of people are killed.
2 In Britain in the past, a building was rated to decide how much local tax the owner should pay.
Patients assigned to the ' generalized eating disorder ' cluster were rated as having more severe symptoms in almost every respect except weight.
Two different trained coders rated all of the children's responses separately for the drawing and the playing scenarios.
Typically, this resulted in reduced quantity produced but had no effect on the rated quality of the texts.
Rated as least useful were: general education courses, courses in methodology, and general preparation in the use of the target language.
The words being rated for imageability were not presented via a loudspeaker because the lexical property of interest was visual, not aural.
A third coder rated videotapes when scores differed by more than 2 points.
Of the 38 bilingual children participating in the study, 13 (38%) were rated as beginning readers and 4 (11%) were considered fair readers.
Women rated intervention more favorably when assuming "ideal" rather than realistic levels of resources, but men did not.
