Cologne earth () An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter |
Earth (n.) The globe or planet which we inhabit |
Earth (n.) The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water |
Earth (n.) The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock |
Earth (n.) A part of this globe |
Earth (n.) Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things |
Earth (n.) The people on the globe. |
Earth (n.) Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria. |
Earth (n.) A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta. |
Earth (n.) A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself |
Earth (v. t.) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth |
Earth (v. t.) To cover with earth or mold |
Earth (v. i.) To burrow. |
Earth (n.) A plowing. |
Earth flax () A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus. |
Earth shine () See Earth light, under Earth. |
Earth-tongue (n.) A fungus of the genus Geoglossum. |
First-rate (a.) Of the highest excellence |
First-rate (n.) A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class. |
Middle-earth (n.) The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. |
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. |
scorched-earth policy | the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels |
ground earth | a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) |
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 |
worldly concern earthly concern world earth | the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife, they consider the church to be independent of the world |
earth science | any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts |
tremor earth tremor microseism | a small earthquake |
a Hizballah Hezbollah Hizbollah Hizbullah Lebanese Hizballah Party of God Islamic Jihad Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine Revolutionary Justice Organization Organization of the Oppressed on Earth | a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran, seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon, car bombs are the signature weapon |
Postal Rate Commission | an independent federal agency that recommends changes in postal rates |
Earth earth | the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell), it was hell on earth |
hell hell on earth hellhole snake pit the pits inferno | any place of pain and turmoil, the hell of battle, the inferno of the engine room, when you're alone Christmas is the pits, |
crust Earth's crust | the outer layer of the Earth |
Earth earth world globe | the rd planet from the sun, the planet we live on, the Earth moves around the sun, he sailed around the world |
land dry land earth ground solid ground terra firma | the solid part of the earth's surface, the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land, the earth shook for several minutes, he dropped the logs on the ground |
surface Earth's surface | the outermost level of the land or sea, earthquakes originate far below the surface, three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water |
earth-god earth god | a god of fertility and vegetation |
earth-goddess earth goddess | a goddess of fertility and vegetation |
earth mother | the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility |
lion's foot gall of the earth Nabalus serpentarius Prenanthes serpentaria | common perennial herb widely distributed in the southern and eastern United States having drooping clusters of pinkish flowers and thick basal leaves suggesting a lion's foot in shape, sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes |
chufa yellow nutgrass earth almond ground almond rush nut Cyperus esculentus | European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers |
heath pea earth-nut pea earthnut pea tuberous vetch Lathyrus tuberosus | European herb bearing small tubers used for food and in Scotland to flavor whiskey |
wild potato vine wild sweet potato vine man-of-the-earth manroot scammonyroot Ipomoea panurata Ipomoea fastigiata | tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root, sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato |
man-of-the-earth Ipomoea leptophylla | a morning glory with long roots of western United States |
truffle earthnut earth-ball | any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber, grow naturally in southwestern Europe |
earthtongue earth-tongue | any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum |
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 |
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 |
rare earth rare-earth element lanthanoid lanthanide lanthanon | any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers through ) |