rating (verb)

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• rating — noun 1 measurement of how good sb/sth is ADJECTIVE ▪ high, top ▪ low, poor ▪ overall ▪ The overall performance rating puts the new model well ahead of its main rivals …   Collocations dictionary

• rating — action of verb to rate 1530s, from RATE (Cf. rate) (n.). Ratings of TV programs, originally radio programs, began 1930 in U.S. under system set up by U.S. pollster and market researcher Archibald M. Crossley (1896 1985), and were called Crossley… …   Etymology dictionary

• Verb — [Network (Rating 5600 9600)] Auch: • Zeitwort …   Deutsch Wörterbuch

• zero-rating — zero rated ˌzero ˈrated adjective TAX zero rated goods and services are those on which you do not have to pay VAT (= a type of sales tax). In Britain, most food and books are zero rated zero rating noun [uncountable] : • The decision was taken to …   Financial and business terms

• rate — I. /reɪt / (say rayt) noun 1. a certain quantity or amount of one thing considered in relation to a unit of another thing and used as a standard or measure: at the rate of 60 kilometres an hour. 2. a fixed charge per unit of quantity: a rate of… …  

• improve — verb ADVERB ▪ considerably, dramatically, drastically, greatly, immeasurably, immensely, materially, radically, really, remarkably, sign …   Collocations dictionary

• ameliorate — verb ( rated; rating) Etymology: alteration of meliorate Date: 1767 transitive verb to make better or more tolerable intransitive verb to grow better Synonyms: see improve • amelioration noun • …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• appreciate — verb ( ated; ating) Etymology: Late Latin appretiatus, past participle of appretiare, from Latin ad + pretium price more at price Date: 1655 transitive verb 1. a. to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• deteriorate — verb ( rated; rating) Etymology: Late Latin deterioratus, past participle of deteriorare, from Latin deterior worse, from de + ter (suffix as in Latin uter which of two) + ior (comparative suffix) more at whether, er Date: 1572 transitive verb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• evaporate — verb ( rated; rating) Etymology: Middle English, from Latin evaporatus, past participle of evaporare, from e + vapor steam, vapor Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. a. to convert into vapor; also to dissipate or draw off in vapor or fumes b.… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• expectorate — verb ( rated; rating) Etymology: Latin expectoratus, past participle of expectorare to banish from the mind (taken to mean literally “to expel from the chest”), from ex + pector , pectus breast, soul more at pectoral Date: 1601 transitive verb 1 …   New Collegiate Dictionary