Rate

Definition

rate /ret/ n ၁။ ႏႈန္း။ အခ်ဳိးအစား။ 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။ ေဈးႏႈန္း။ ပံုေသအခ၊ တန္ဖိုး။ 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။ (လည္ပတ္၊ လႈပ္ရွား၊ ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္း စသည္) ႏႈန္း။ ႏႈန္းထား။ 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 ) အခြန္။ (ေျမရွင္၊ လုပ္ငန္းရွင္တို႔က ေဒသႏၲရ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားထံ ေပးသြင္းရ ေသာ အခြန္။ ) 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 တန္ဖိုးခန္႔မွန္းသည္။ သတ္မွတ္သည္။ တန္ဖိုးထားသည္။ 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။ သတ္မွတ္သည္။ Do you rate Tom among your friends? ၃။ သတ္မွတ္သည္။ သေဘာထားသည္။ That task rates low on my priority list. ❍ This must rate as one of the worst meals I have ever eaten! ၄။ ( infml ) အသိအမွတ္ျပဳေဖာ္ရသည္။ The incident didn't even rate a mention in the local paper. ❏ at any rate [ IDM ] ၁။ ဘာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္။ Well, that's one good piece of news at any rate. ၂။ (ဆိုၿပီးစကားကို ပိုမို တိက်ေအာင္ ေျပာသည့္သေဘာျဖင့္) ဘယ္လိုျဖစ္ျဖစ္။ He said he'll be coming tomorrow. At any rate, I think that's what he said. ၃။ (ဆိုၿပီးသည့္စကားကိုပိုမိုေလးနက္ေစလိုေသာ သေဘာျဖင့္) ဘယ္လိုျဖစ္ျဖစ္။ 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 ) အထူးလ်င္ျမန္စြာ။ ❏ at this/ that rate [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဒီႏႈန္းအတိုင္းဆိုရင္။ At this rate, we'll soon be bankrupt. ❏ rate-capping n [U] ( Brit ) ေဒသႏၲရ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ား အျမင့္ဆံုးေကာက္ႏိုင္သည့္ အခြန္ႏႈန္းထားကို အစိုးရက ကန္႔သတ္ ထားျခင္း။

Examples

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