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. |
Return
(v. i.) To turn back |
Return
(v. i.) To come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular |
Return
(v. i.) To speak in answer |
Return
(v. i.) To revert |
Return
(v. i.) To go back in thought, narration, or argument. |
Return
(v. t.) To bring, carry, send, or turn, back |
Return
(v. t.) To repay |
Return
(v. t.) To give in requital or recompense |
Return
(v. t.) To give back in reply |
Return
(v. t.) To retort |
Return
(v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known. |
Return
(v. t.) To render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior |
Return
(v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers. |
Return
(v. t.) To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done |
Return
(v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository. |
Return
(v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net. |
Return
(v. t.) To lead in response to the lead of one's partner |
Return
(n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition |
Return
(n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition |
Return
(n.) That which is returned. |
Return
(n.) A payment |
Return
(n.) An answer |
Return
(n.) An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like |
Return
(n.) The profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc. |
Return
(n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold |
Return
(n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court. |
Return
(n.) The certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document. |
Return
(n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners. |
Return
(n.) A day in bank. See Return day, below. |
Return
(n.) An official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer |
Return
(n.) The turnings and windings of a trench or mine. |
Second-rate
(a.) Of the second size, rank, quality, or value |
reappearance
return | the act of someone appearing again, his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited |
| return homecoming | a coming to or returning home, on his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party |
restitution
return restoration regaining | getting something back again, upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing |
| return | the act of going back to a prior location, they set out on their return to the base camp |
| return | (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble |
| return | a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player, he won the point on a crossourt return |
return paying back
getting even | a reciprocal group action, in return we gave them as good as we got |
return key
return | the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed |
| 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 |
Rubicon
point of no return | a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment |
round-trip ticket
return ticket | a ticket to a place and back (usually over the same route) |
| day return | a return ticket (at reduced fare) for traveling both ways in the same day |
tax return
income tax return
return | document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability, his gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return |
| amended return | a tax return that corrects the information in an earlier return |
declaration of estimated tax
estimated tax return | return required of a taxpayer whose tax withheld from income does not meet the tax liability for the year |
| false return | an incorrect income tax return |
| information return | a return that provides information to the tax collector but does not compute the tax liability |
| joint return | a return filed by a husband and wife |
| return address | the address of the sender of a letter or parcel indicating where it should be returned if it cannot be delivered |
rejoinder
retort
return riposte
replication comeback
counter | a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one), it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher |
recurrence
return | happening again (especially at regular intervals), the return of spring |
| return coming back | the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction |
| Postal Rate Commission | an independent federal agency that recommends changes in postal rates |
return
issue
take
takings
proceeds
yield
payoff | the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property, the average return was about % |
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 |
| carriage return | the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on a line |
exponential decay
exponential return | a decrease that follows an exponential function |
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 |
mileage
fuel consumption rate
gasoline mileage
gas mileage | the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned |