rate

/reɪt/

US pronunciation

American sound/reɪt/

rate

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

US voice -> rate

Myanmar meaning

(n) စံနှုန်း၊ နှုန်းထား။ (v) တန်ဖိုးဖြတ်သည်။ တန်ဖိုးသတ်မှတ်သည်။ အပြစ်တင်သည်။

Full entry

rate /ret/ n

၁။ နှုန်း။ အချိုးအစား။ walk at a/ the rate of 5 kilometres an hour ❍ produce cars at a rate of 50 a/ per week ❍ the rising rate of unemployment ❍ the annual birth/ divorce rate ❍ a high pass/ failure rate (eg in an examination) ❍ the exchange rate/ the rate of exchange (ie the number of units of one currency given in exchange for one unit of another).
၂။ ဈေးနှုန်း။ ပုံသေအခ၊ တန်ဖိုး။ postal/ advertising/ insurance rates ❍ a low/ high hourly rate of pay ❍ the basic rate of tax ❍ special reduced rate for children/ students ❍ Surveys offered at reasonable rates. ❍ Interest rates have fallen from 8% to 5%. See also BASE RATE
၃။ (လည်ပတ်၊ လှုပ်ရှား၊ ပြောင်းလဲခြင်း စသည်) နှုန်း။ နှုန်းထား။ The incidence of such crimes is increasing at a steady/ terrifying rate. ❍ His pulse rate dropped suddenly. ❍ At the rate you work, you'll never finish!
၄။ (usu pl ) (Brit ) အခွန်။ (မြေရှင်၊ လုပ်ငန်းရှင်တို့က ဒေသန္တရ အာဏာပိုင်များထံ ပေးသွင်းရ သော အခွန်။ ) set a rate of 66 pence in the pound (ie 66 pence for every pound of a property's value). Compare COUNCIL TAX, FIRST-RATE, SECOND-RATE, THIRD- RATE
v
၁။ ~ sth at sth; ~ sb/ sth as sth တန်ဖိုးခန့်မှန်းသည်။ သတ်မှတ်သည်။ တန်ဖိုးထားသည်။ What do you rate his income at? ❍ She is highly rated as a novelist. ❍ He is widely rated as one of the best players in the world. ❍ (infml ) I don't rate this play (ie think it is good) at all.
၂။ သတ်မှတ်သည်။ Do you rate Tom among your friends?
၃။ သတ်မှတ်သည်။ သဘောထားသည်။ That task rates low on my priority list. ❍ This must rate as one of the worst meals I have ever eaten!
၄။ (infml ) အသိအမှတ်ပြုဖော်ရသည်။ The incident didn't even rate a mention in the local paper.
❏ at any rate [IDM ]
၁။ ဘာပဲဖြစ်ဖြစ်။ Well, that's one good piece of news at any rate.
၂။ (ဆိုပြီးစကားကို ပိုမို တိကျအောင် ပြောသည့်သဘောဖြင့်) ဘယ်လိုဖြစ်ဖြစ်။ He said he'll be coming tomorrow. At any rate, I think that's what he said.
၃။ (ဆိုပြီးသည့်စကားကိုပိုမိုလေးနက်စေလိုသော သဘောဖြင့်) ဘယ်လိုဖြစ်ဖြစ်။ There were 60 people there, or maybe 70. I don't know. At any rate, the room was packed.
❏ at a rate of knots [IDM ] (infml ) အထူးလျင်မြန်စွာ။
❏ at this/ that rate [IDM ] (infml ) ဒီနှုန်းအတိုင်းဆိုရင်။ At this rate, we'll soon be bankrupt.
❏ rate-capping n [U] (Brit ) ဒေသန္တရ အာဏာပိုင်များ အမြင့်ဆုံးကောက်နိုင်သည့် အခွန်နှုန်းထားကို အစိုးရက ကန့်သတ် ထားခြင်း။

More examples

A rising birth rate
A dramatic fall in the city’s murder rate
[rate of] : The animals were dying at a rate of three an hour.
[rate of] : Areas where the rate of unemployment is high
[success rate] : Their success rate in recruiting new staff is very high.
[a high/low rate of something] : There is a high rate of muggings and other forms of street crime in the area.
Doctors monitor the patient’s heart rate.
The population was growing at an alarming rate.
[rate of] : During this period the rate of inflation soared.
[at a rate of] : Workers were leaving at a rate of one a month.
Plans to reduce the tax rates for people on low incomes
[rate of] : The banks now pay a lower rate of interest to savers.
[hourly/weekly/monthly rate] : They increased the hourly rate of pay to £8.50.
Well, I'm not going home on foot, at any rate.

Synonyms

speed, tempo, pace, velocity, time, adjudge, admire, allowance, amount, appraise, apprise, assay, assess, be accepted, be favorite, be welcome, be worthy, button down, calculate, charge, class, classify, clip, comparison, consider, cost, count, dash, deem, degree, deserve, determine, dues, duty, earn, esteem, estimate, evaluate, fee, figure, fix, flow, frequency, gait, gallop, goods, grade, guess at, hire, hop, judge, level, measure, merit, motion, movement, peg, percentage, pigeonhole, price, price tag, privilege, progression, proportion, prosper, put away, put down as, put down for, quota, quotation, quotient, rank, ratio, reckon, redline, regard, relate to standard, relation, relationship, relative, respect, scale, score, set at, size up, spurt, stand in with, standard, succeed, survey, tab, tag, take one's measure, tariff, tax, think highly of, toll, tread, triumph, typecast, valuate, valuation, value, weigh, weight

Antonyms

condemn, disbelieve, dislike, disqualify, disregard, disrespect, fail, hate, ignore, inaction, lose, neglect, scorn, whole