rate

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To berate.
• intransitive verb To express reproof.
• noun A quantity measured with respect to another measured quantity.
• noun A measure of a part with respect to a whole; a proportion.
• noun The cost per unit of a commodity or service.
• noun A charge or payment calculated in relation to a particular sum or quantity.
• noun Level of quality.
• noun Chiefly British A locally assessed property tax.
• intransitive verb To place in a particular class, rank, or grade: synonym: estimate.
• intransitive verb To specify the performance limits of, especially according to a standard scale.
• intransitive verb To regard or consider as having a certain value.
• intransitive verb Chiefly British To value for purposes of taxation.
• intransitive verb To set a rate for (goods to be shipped).
• intransitive verb Informal To merit or deserve: synonym: earn.
• intransitive verb To be ranked in a particular class.
• intransitive verb Informal To have status, importance, or influence.
• idiom (at any rate) Whatever the case may be; in any case.
• idiom (at any rate) Used to indicate a revision or correction to a previous remark.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun under these circumstances; if this goes on; etc.
• To fix at a rate of transportation: as, freight was rated as low as possible.
• To convey or transport at a given rate.
• noun A reckoning by comparative values or relations; proportional estimation according to some standard; relative amount, quantity, range, or degree: as, the rate of interest is 6 per cent. (that is, $6 for every $100 for every year); the rate per mile of railroad charges. expenses, or speed; a rapid rate of growth or of progress.
• noun Charge or valuation according to a scale or standard; comparative price or amount of demand; a fixed measure of estimation.
• noun A fixed public tax or imposition assessed on property for some local purpose, usually according to income or value: as, poor- rates or church- rates in Great Britain.
• noun A proportion allotted or permitted; an allotment or provision; a regulated amount or supply.
• noun A relative scale of being, action, or conduct; comparative degree or extent of any mode of existence or procedure; proportion in manner or method: as, an extravagant rate of living or of expenditure. See at any rate, at no rate. below.
• noun Hence Mode or manner of arrangement; order; state.
• noun Degree, rank, or estimation; rating; appraisement: used of persons and their qualities.
• noun The order or class of a vessel, formerly regulated in the United States navy by the number of guns carried, but now by the tonnage displacement.
• noun In the United States navy, the grade or position of any one of the crew: same as rating, 2.
• noun In horology, the daily gain or loss of a chronometer or other timepiece.
• noun Synonyms Assessment, Impost, etc. See tax.
• To chide with vehemence; reprove; scold; censure violently.
• To affect by chiding or reproving; restrain by vehement censure.
• To utter vehement censure or reproof; inveigh scoldingly: with at.
• To ratify. To rate the truce they swore.
• noun A ratification.
• noun A reproof; specifically, in hunting, a reproof to a dog.
• Having missed fire, literally or figuratively; having failed.
• noun One who has failed; a person who is a failure.
• To reckon by comparative estimation; regard as of such a value, rank, or degree; hold at a certain valuation or estimate; appraise; fix the value or price of.
• To assess as to payment or contribution; fix the comparative liability of, for taxation or the like; reckon at so much in obligation or capability; set a rate upon.
• To fix the relative scale, rank, or position of: as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman.
• To determine the rate of, or rate-error of, as a chronometer or other timepiece. See rate, n., 10.
• To have value, rank, standing, or estimation: as, the vessel rates as a ship of the line.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To be set or considered in a class; to have rank.
• intransitive verb To make an estimate.
• transitive verb To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.
• transitive verb To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.