rating

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪtɪŋ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪtɪŋ/, [ˈɹeɪɾɪŋ]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ

Verb

rating

  1. present participle and gerund of rate

Noun

rating (plural ratings)

  1. A position on a scale.
  2. An evaluation of status, especially of financial status.
    They have a poor credit rating.
  3. A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.
    He has a high chess rating.
  4. A quantitative measure of the audience of a television program.
  5. (nautical) A seaman in a warship.
    • 2014, BBC News, Huge Russian warship fascinates French in Saint-Nazaire:
      Some 400 Russian ratings are living in the western French port, awaiting delivery of their controversial new command-and-control ship, the Vladivostok.
  6. (nautical, British) An enlisted seaman not a commissioned officer or warrant officer.
    • 1950, Winston S. Churchill, “The Hinge of Fate”, in The Second World War, volume 4, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 149:
      Fifty officers and seven hundred and fifty ratings from the two British ships were picked up by the Japanese, together with the survivors from the Pope

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Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rating.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɛj.tiŋk/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛjtiŋk
  • Syllabification: ra‧ting

Noun

rating m inan (related adjective ratingowy)

  1. (finance) credit rating (estimate used by creditors to determine maximum amount of credit)
  2. popularity rating (evaluation of status)

Declension

Further reading

  • rating in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • rating in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rating.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

rating m (plural ratings)

  1. (finance) credit rating (an evaluation of status, especially of financial status)
    agências de ratingcredit rating agencies
  2. (television) rating (a quantitative measure of the audience of a television program)

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English rating.

Noun

rating n (plural ratinguri)

  1. rating

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈreitin/ [ˈrei̯.t̪ĩn]
    • Rhymes: -eitin
  • IPA(key): /ˈratin/ [ˈra.t̪ĩn]
    • Rhymes: -atin
    • Syllabification: ra‧ting

Noun

rating m (plural ratings)

  1. (nautical) class (of boat)
  2. (television) popularity rating
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