These are the meanings of the letters AETR when you unscramble them.
- Rate (n.)
A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.
- Rate (n.)
Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
- Rate (n.)
Order; arrangement.
- Rate (n.)
Ratification; approval.
- Rate (n.)
That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.
- Rate (n.)
The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.
- Rate (n.)
The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
- Rate (n.)
The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.
- Rate (n.)
Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.
- Rate (v. i.)
To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.
- Rate (v. i.)
To make an estimate.
- Rate (v. t.)
To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.
- Rate (v. t.)
To ratify.
- Rate (v. t.)
To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.
- Rate (v. t.)
To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.
- Rate (v. t. & i.)
To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.
- Tare ()
of Tear
- Tare (imp.)
Tore.
- Tare (n.)
A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder.
- Tare (n.)
A weed that grows among wheat and other grain; -- alleged by modern naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or darnel.
- Tare (n.)
Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc.
- Tare (v. t.)
To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).
- Tear (n.)
A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.
- Tear (n.)
Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
- Tear (n.)
That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
- Tear (n.)
The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.
- Tear (v. i.)
To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.
- Tear (v. i.)
To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.
- Tear (v. t.)
Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.
- Tear (v. t.)
To move violently; to agitate.
- Tear (v. t.)
To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
- Tear (v. t.)
To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
- Tear (v. t.)
To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.