📖 R — The English dictionary · page 7

rat — Everyday, meaning 1: A rodent like a large mouse, with a long thin tail, sharp teeth and grey or brown fur.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A nasty, mean or disloyal person.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Rat on someone (informal): tell on someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Rats!: a mild word said when something goes wrong.↗ Example: A rat ran across the alley.↗ · My friend has two pet rats called Salt and Pepper.↗ · Keep the bin lid closed so rats can't get in.↗ · Don't touch wild rats — they can carry disease.↗ · Rats can learn their way through a maze.↗ · I came home from the rain looking like a drowned rat.↗ · «Rats!↗ I forgot my homework.»↗ · The story's detective smelled a rat.↗

ratatouille — Everyday, meaning 1: A French vegetable stew made by slowly cooking tomatoes, courgettes (zucchini), aubergines (eggplants), peppers, onions and garlic in olive oil.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) "Ratatouille" is also a 2007 Pixar film about a rat called Remy who wants to be a chef in Paris.↗ Example: We made ratatouille in cooking class with courgettes and tomatoes.↗ · Ratatouille comes from the south of France.↗ · Mum serves ratatouille with rice and grilled chicken.↗ · In the film Ratatouille, a rat cooks in a Paris restaurant.↗ · The ratatouille smelt of garlic and herbs.↗ · Ratatouille is a great way to eat lots of vegetables.↗

rate — Everyday, meaning 1: A rate tells how much of one thing goes with one unit of another, like miles in each hour or dollars for each hour of work.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A rate is how fast something happens: the rate of growth, a heart rate.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A rate is a price or charge: the hourly rate, the rate for a room.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To rate is to judge how good something is: «I rate it 4 stars».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «At any rate» means anyway.↗ Example: He works at a rate of $12 per hour.↗ · The tap fills at a rate of 5 liters a minute.↗ · At this rate, how far will she go in 4 hours?↗ · She types at a rate of 40 words a minute.↗ · Your heart rate goes up when you run.↗ · The plant grew at a rate of 1 cm a week.↗ · I rate this book five stars.↗ · Babysitters charge an hourly rate.↗ · At any rate, we tried our best.↗ · "I've got him now, at any rate," thought he.↗ · And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.↗ (Writings 2CH.9.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.↗ (Prophets 1KI.10.25, JPS 1917)↗

rather — Everyday, meaning 1: Rather means quite or a little, like «rather cold».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Would rather» means would prefer: «I'd rather walk».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Rather than» means instead of.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Or rather» is used to correct yourself and say something more exactly.↗ Example: It's rather cold today, so take a coat.↗ · I'd rather have pizza than pasta.↗ · Would you rather swim or cycle?↗ · She chose to walk rather than take the bus.↗ · I'd rather not talk about it.↗ · He was rather tired after the match.↗ · The test was rather easy.↗ · We left at six, or rather a bit after six.↗ · ‘Happy!’ cried he; ‘say rather unhappy.↗ · SY 2:1, 3:1, so it is interesting that in this verse the tongue is rather portrayed as one of two binary poles.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · However, this is grammatically peculiar, as immot is usually only the construct plural of אֵם em 'mother', whose absolute plural is rather אִמָּהוֹת immahot.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The meaning for the SY is: God did not make things by themselves, individually, but rather, He made all things in relationship to all other things.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Thou lovest evil more than good; falsehood rather than speaking righteousness.↗ (Writings PSA.52.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Receive my instruction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.↗ (Writings PRO.8.10, JPS 1917)↗ · So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than these my bones.↗ (Writings JOB.7.15, JPS 1917)↗

ratified — Everyday, meaning 1: (law, formal) To ratify a treaty, agreement or law is to make it official by voting or signing to approve it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ratified describes something that has been approved in this way.↗ Example: The treaty was ratified by both countries.↗ · Almost every country has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.↗ · The school council ratified the new rules.↗ · The changes must be ratified before they count.↗ · Parliament ratified the agreement.↗ · Once ratified, the treaty became law.↗

rating — Everyday, meaning 1: A score or grade that shows how good, popular or safe something is.↗ e.g. "a five-star rating".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A label that says which ages a film, game or show is suitable for.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Ratings are numbers showing how many people watch a TV programme.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A rating is an ordinary sailor in the navy, below the rank of officer.↗ Example: This game has an age rating of 12.↗ · The hotel has a four-star rating.↗ · Check the rating before you watch a film.↗ · Our class gave the book a rating of 9 out of 10.↗ · The new show got very high ratings.↗ · The fridge has an energy rating of A.↗ · We worked out the average rating from the survey.↗ · Weak as she was, he carried her to the ship, where he got a rating for it from the captain.↗

ratio — Everyday, meaning 1: A ratio compares two amounts by how many times one fits into the other.↗ If there are 2 cats for every 3 dogs, the ratio is 2 to 3.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A ratio can compare more than two amounts, like 1:2:3.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Ratio can also mean reason or sense, the ability to understand something clearly.↗ Example: The ratio of boys to girls is 3 to 4.↗ · There are 12 boys, so there are 16 girls.↗ · Mix paint in the ratio 2:1.↗ · Share 30 sweets in the ratio 1:2.↗ · For every 2 cups of flour, add 1 cup of milk.↗ · The model car is made at a ratio of 1:20.↗ · The ratio of wheels to bikes is 2:1.↗ · Mix squash and water in the ratio 1 to 4.↗ · But Fionn would see and know, or he would under-stand a decent ratio of his visions.↗

rational — Everyday, meaning 1: Able to think clearly and sensibly, using reason rather than feelings.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sensible, fair and based on good thinking.↗ Example: Humans are rational creatures; animals are not.↗ · A rational choice is one you have thought about carefully.↗ · Be rational: the bus is late, so we will walk.↗ · Author of the "Guide for Rational Inquiries into the Biblical Scriptures," "Toms des Morgenlandes," Translator of "Nathan the Wise" from the German, etc., etc., etc. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

rationality — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The quality of being able to think clearly, using reason.↗ Example: Man is a microcosm, as the neck separates rationality from vitality, so does diaphragm the vitality from the vegetativeness.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

rationed — Everyday, meaning 1: Past of «ration»: limited the amount of something each person could have, because there was not enough.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: adjective Given out in fixed, limited amounts: «rationed food».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Used carefully in small amounts to make it last: «I rationed my sweets.».↗ Example: During the war, sugar and butter were rationed.↗ · We rationed our water on the long hike.↗ · Mum rationed the chocolate so it lasted all week.↗ · Screen time is rationed in our house.↗ · The sailors rationed the food until help came.↗ · Petrol was rationed when supplies ran low.↗

rationing — Everyday, meaning 1: (history) Rationing is a system in which the government limits how much food, fuel or clothes each person may have, because there is not enough for everyone, as in Britain during and after the Second World War.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Rationing is any sharing out of something in small fixed amounts so it lasts, for example water on a boat or sweets in a holiday.↗ Example: During the war, rationing meant each person got only a small amount of butter a week.↗ · Sweet rationing ended in Britain in 1953.↗ · The sailors began rationing their water when the wind dropped.↗ · We're rationing the chocolate so it lasts all holiday.↗ · Gran still remembers her ration book.↗ · In the drought there was water rationing, so no hosepipes.↗ · If 30 sweets are rationed over 10 days, each day gets 3.↗

rattle — Everyday, meaning 1: To rattle means to make a lot of short, knocking sounds by shaking, or to shake something so it does this.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A rattle is a baby's toy that makes a noise when shaken.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A rattle is also the sound itself, or the end of a rattlesnake's tail.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To rattle someone means to make them nervous.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To rattle off means to say a list quickly.↗ Example: The windows rattled in the storm.↗ · The baby shook her rattle.↗ · Something is rattling in the box.↗ · A rattlesnake shakes its tail to warn you.↗ · Don't let the other team rattle you.↗ · She rattled off her times tables.↗ · The old car rattled down the road.↗ · The stage coach went rattling past.↗ · Clubs are accounted as stubble; he laugheth at the rattling of the javelin.↗ (Writings JOB.41.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; and prancing horses, and bounding chariots; (Prophets NAM.3.2, JPS 1917)↗

rattler — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, US) A rattlesnake: a poisonous snake in the Americas that shakes the rattle on its tail to warn you.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something that rattles, like a baby's rattle or a noisy old car or train.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old, Australia/UK slang) A train, especially an old rattling one.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal, old) An excellent or very lively thing: «a rattler of a story».↗ Example: The hiker froze when she heard the rattler's buzz.↗ · Rattlers live in deserts and dry hills in the USA.↗ · If you hear a rattler, back away slowly.↗ · The old bus was a real rattler on the bumpy road.↗ · Grandpa called the steam train «the old rattler».↗ · A rattler shakes its tail to say «Keep away!»↗

rattlesnake — Everyday, meaning 1: A poisonous (venomous) snake of North and South America that has a rattle at the end of its tail made of hard rings, which it shakes to make a buzzing warning noise.↗ Example: The rattlesnake shook its tail to warn us.↗ · If you hear a rattlesnake, back away slowly.↗ · Rattlesnakes live in deserts and grasslands in America.↗ · Watch where you step on desert trails — rattlesnakes hide under rocks.↗ · A rattlesnake bite needs a doctor straight away.↗ · The rattle is made of hard rings, like your fingernails.↗ · Baby rattlesnakes are venomous too.↗

ratty — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Australia, NZ, informal) Bad-tempered and easily annoyed; grumpy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (US, informal) Shabby, old and torn, like a ratty old jumper.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Like a rat, or full of rats.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (a name) Ratty is the friendly nickname of the Water Rat in The Wind in the Willows, Mole's best friend, who loves «messing about in boats».↗ Example: Ratty took Mole for his first boat ride on the river.↗ · I'm always ratty when I'm tired.↗ · He wore a ratty old T-shirt to paint the fence.↗ · «Believe me, my young friend,» said Ratty, «there is nothing half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.»↗ · Don't get ratty with your little brother.↗ · Ratty and Mole went to the Wild Wood to find Badger.↗ · The dog chewed his toy until it was ratty.↗

ravage — Everyday, meaning 1: To damage or destroy something badly: «The storm ravaged the coast.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (the ravages of) The very bad effects of something over time: «the ravages of war», «the ravages of time».↗ Example: Bushfires ravaged huge areas of Australia.↗ · The town was ravaged by war.↗ · Locusts ravaged the farmers' crops.↗ · The old castle shows the ravages of time.↗ · A terrible disease ravaged Europe in the 1300s.↗ · The hurricane ravaged the islands.↗ · Passing through the woody district of Crommyon Theseus next slew a wild and dangerous sow which had long ravaged the country.↗ · The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on it.↗ (Writings PSA.80.14, JPS 1917)↗

rave — Everyday, meaning 1: To talk with great excitement and praise about something you like: «She raved about the film.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To talk wildly or angrily, as if not thinking clearly: «He was raving about aliens.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A big party with loud electronic dance music, often all night, mainly for adults.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (adjective) Full of praise: «The show got rave reviews.».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (UK slang, old) «Raving mad» means completely crazy; «a raver» is someone who goes to raves or loves partying.↗ Example: Everyone is raving about the new burger place.↗ · The play got rave reviews in the papers.↗ · He was raving about how unfair the referee was.↗ · My older cousin went to a rave and danced till morning.↗ · Mum raved about the view from the top of the hill.↗ · The storm made the sea rave against the rocks.↗ · «Stark raving mad» is an old way of saying completely crazy.↗ · I thought you had something really interesting to tell me instead of raving about some unknown damsel.↗ · Who crieth: 'Woe'? who: 'Alas'? who hath contentions? who hath raving? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?↗ (Writings PRO.23.29, JPS 1917)↗ · His watchmen are all blind, without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; raving, lying down, loving to slumber.↗ (Prophets ISA.56.10, JPS 1917)↗