rated
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪtɪd/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪtɪd
- Hyphenation: rat‧ed
Adjective
rated (comparative more rated, superlative most rated)
- (now rare) Scolded, rebuked. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- He tooke it up, and thence with him did beare, / As rated Spaniell takes his burden up for feare.
- 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], OCLC 84390265:
- He merely passed by sheepishly with a rated, scowling look.
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- (engineering) maximum (load, voltage, etc.) under which a device can function properly
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