First-rate (a.) Of the highest excellence |
First-rate (n.) A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class. |
Rate (v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence |
Rate (n.) Established portion or measure |
Rate (n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion |
Rate (n.) Valuation |
Rate (n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value |
Rate (n.) Order |
Rate (n.) Ratification |
Rate (n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time |
Rate (n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc. |
Rate (n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc. |
Rate (v. t.) To set a certain estimate on |
Rate (v. t.) To assess for the payment of a rate or tax. |
Rate (v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of |
Rate (v. t.) To ratify. |
Rate (v. i.) To be set or considered in a class |
Rate (v. i.) To make an estimate. |
Second-rate (a.) Of the second size, rank, quality, or value |
Strip (v. t.) To deprive |
Strip (v. t.) To divest of clothing |
Strip (v. t.) To dismantle |
Strip (v. t.) To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips. |
Strip (v. t.) To deprive of all milk |
Strip (v. t.) To pass |
Strip (v. t.) To pull or tear off, as a covering |
Strip (v. t.) To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut |
Strip (v. t.) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut) |
Strip (v. t.) To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action. |
Strip (v. t.) To remove fiber, flock, or lint from |
Strip (v. t.) To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands" |
Strip (v. i.) To take off, or become divested of, clothes or covering |
Strip (v. i.) To fail in the thread |
Strip (n.) A narrow piece, or one comparatively long |
Strip (n.) A trough for washing ore. |
Strip (n.) The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. |
Strip-leaf (n.) Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing. |
Water rate () A rate or tax for a supply of water. |
beggar-my-neighbor beggar-my-neighbour strip-Jack-naked | a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards |
strip poker | poker in which a player's losses are paid by removing an article of clothing |
strip striptease strip show | a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music, she did a strip right in front of everyone |
strip cropping | cultivation of crops in strips following the contours of the land to minimize erosion |
strip mining opencast mining | the mining of ore or coal from an open mine |
strip search | searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs by having them remove their clothes |
airstrip flight strip landing strip strip | an airfield without normal airport facilities |
bimetallic strip | a strip consisting of two metals that bends with a rise in temperature |
furring strip furring | strip used to give a level surface for attaching wallboard |
junction barrier barrier strip | a junction unit for connecting cables without the need for plugs |
leather strip | implement consisting of a strip of leather |
Mobius strip | a continuous closed surface with only one side, formed from a rectangular strip by rotating one enddegrees and joining it with the other end |
strip slip | artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material |
strip | thin piece of wood or metal |
strip lighting | light consisting of long tubes (instead of bulbs) that provide the illumination |
strip mall | a mercantile establishment consisting of a row of various stores and business and restaurants along a road or busy street, usually opening on a parking lot |
strip mine | an open mine (usually for coal) where the seams run close to the surface |
taxiway taxi strip | a paved surface in the form of a strip, used by planes taxiing to or from the runway at an airport |
weather strip weatherstrip weather stripping weatherstripping | a narrow strip of material to cover the joint of a door or window to exclude the cold |
pace rate | the relative speed of progress or change, he lived at a fast pace, he works at a great rate, the pace of events accelerated |
bargain rate cheapness cut rate cut price | a price below the standard price |
comic strip cartoon strip strip funnies | a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book |
strip steak New York strip | steak from upper part of the short loin |
bacon strip | a slice of bacon |
Postal Rate Commission | an independent federal agency that recommends changes in postal rates |
Gaza Strip Gaza | a coastal region at the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean bordering Israel and Egypt, he is a Palestinian from Gaza |
strip | a relatively long narrow piece of something, he felt a flat strip of muscle |
strip miner | a miner who does strip mining |
pay rate rate of pay | amount of money received per unit time, women's pay rate is lower than men's |
payment rate rate of payment repayment rate installment rate | the amount of money paid out per unit time |
tax rate | rate used to calculate tax liability |
interest rate rate of interest | the percentage of a sum of money charged for its use |
discount rate discount bank discount | interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan |
bank rate | the discount rate fixed by a central bank |
discount rate | the rate of interest set by the Federal Reserve that member banks are charged when they borrow money through the Federal Reserve System |
base rate | the interest rate set by the Bank of England for lending to other banks |
prime interest rate | the interest rate on short-term loans that banks charge their commercial customers with high credit ratings |
rate charge per unit | amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis, a -minute phone call at that rate would cost $ |
freight freightage freight rate | the charge for transporting something by common carrier, we pay the freight, the freight rate is usually cheaper |
rate of depreciation depreciation rate | the rate at which the value of property is reduced, used to calculate tax deduction |
rate of exchange exchange rate | the charge for exchanging currency of one country for currency of another |
excursion rate | a reduced rate for a round-trip ticket |
room rate | the rate charged daily for a hotel room |
basal metabolic rate BMR | the rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state |
baud baud rate | (computer science) a data transmission rate (bits second) for modems |
rate | a quantity or amount or measure considered as a proportion of another quantity or amount or measure, the literacy rate, the retention rate, the dropout rate |
absentee rate | the percentage of workers who do not report to work |
occupancy rate | the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) are occupied or rented at a given time |
vacancy rate | the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) that are unoccupied or not rented at a given time |
unemployment rate | the percentage of the work force that is unemployed at any given date |