First-rate
(a.) Of the highest excellence |
First-rate
(n.) A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class. |
Flow
() imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. |
Flow
(v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid |
Flow
(v. i.) To become liquid |
Flow
(v. i.) To proceed |
Flow
(v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties |
Flow
(v. i.) To have or be in abundance |
Flow
(v. i.) To hang loose and waving |
Flow
(v. i.) To rise, as the tide |
Flow
(v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus. |
Flow
(v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid |
Flow
(v. t.) To cover with varnish. |
Flow
(n.) A stream of water or other fluid |
Flow
(n.) A continuous movement of something abundant |
Flow
(n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river |
Flow
(n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb. |
Flow
(n.) A low-lying piece of watery land |
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 |
Water rate
() A rate or tax for a supply of water. |
work flow
workflow | progress (or rate of progress) in work being done |
flow
stream | the act of flowing or streaming, continuous progression |
| laminar flow clean room | a clean room free of all extraneous particles, used in fabricating microprocessors |
| 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 |
menorrhea
menstrual blood
menstrual flow | flow of blood from the uterus, occurs at roughly monthly intervals during a woman's reproductive years |
flow chart
flowchart
flow diagram
flow sheet | a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system |
tidal flow
tidal current | the water current caused by the tides |
flow
flowing | the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) |
airflow
air flow
flow of air | the flow of air, she adjusted the fan so that the airflow was directed right at her |
| Postal Rate Commission | an independent federal agency that recommends changes in postal rates |
stream
flow
current | dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas, two streams of development run through American history, stream of consciousness, the flow of thought, the current of history |
| turbulent flow | flow in which the velocity at any point varies erratically |
| streamline flow | flow of a gas or liquid in which the velocity at any point is relatively steady |
| laminar flow | nonturbulent streamline flow in parallel layers (laminae) |
| cash flow | the excess of cash revenues over cash outlays in a give period of time (not including nonash expenses) |
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 |
| flow | any uninterrupted stream or discharge |
menstruation
menses
menstruum
catamenia
period
flow | the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause, the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation, a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped--Hippocrates, the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females--Aristotle |
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 |
employee turnover
turnover rate
turnover | the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers |
stream
flow | something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously, a stream of people emptied from the terminal, the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors |
attrition rate
rate of attrition | the rate of shrinkage in size or number |
birthrate
birth rate
fertility
fertility rate
natality | the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area, expressed per population per year |
| crime rate | the ratio of crimes in an area to the population of that area, expressed per population per year |
| data rate | the rate at which circuits or other devices operate when handling digital information |
deathrate
death rate
mortality
mortality rate
fatality rate | the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area, expressed per per year |
| dose rate | the quantity of radiation absorbed per unit time |
erythrocyte sedimentation rate
ESR
sedimentation rate
sed rate | the rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions, a high rate usually indicates the presence of inflammation |