Main meanings of rating in English

: rating¹ rating²

rating¹

Pronunciation /ˈreɪtɪŋ/

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noun

1A classification or ranking of someone or something based on a comparative assessment of their quality, standard, or performance.
‘the hotel regained its five-star rating’
- ‘The same observer assessed team behavior quality ratings and team task performance for all teams.’
- ‘Many of these findings were translated into comparative performance ratings of the twenty-two groups of adjacent suburbs covered by the survey.’
- ‘Photographic evidence of assignments is sometimes very useful to us in order to assess members performance ratings.’
- ‘Its five-star rating demands fine quality and service.’
- ‘Results Performance ratings of targeted competencies at the assessment centre predicted trainer ratings of performance in the job.’
- ‘Instead, pay increases and/or performance bonuses are based primarily on performance ratings.’
- ‘The most common forms of observation based assessment are ratings by supervisors, peers, and patients.’
- ‘Consumers don't base European cars based on quality ratings.’
- ‘Standard & Poor based the rating on a review of publicly available information.’
- ‘Morningstar, the Chicago-based mutual fund research firm, recently gave Ariel's mutual funds its top five-star rating for performance.’
- ‘These figures were similar to their performance ratings that were graded by their supervisors.’
- ‘The ratings you cited are based on computer formulas designed by their inventors to judge performance.’
- ‘Furthermore, advertisements, rankings and ratings issued by fund companies only describe past performance.’
- ‘A course structure questionnaire assessed students' ratings of eight critical areas of course structure.’
- ‘Preliminary ratings are based on design features, operational characteristics and accident risk of a road section.’
- ‘Houston received high satisfaction ratings from respondents for quality of life.’
- ‘Blair is not only interested in boosting his poll ratings.’
- ‘In one study, ethnic minority patients were treated with less analgesia and assigned lower pain ratings than Caucasian patients.’
- ‘He is down ten points among Republicans from his average poll ratings.’
- ‘I wouldn't be surprised if as a result of his Liverpool trip he finds his popularity ratings soaring.’
grade, classification, class, grading, ranking, rank, category, categorization, designation, position, standing, status, placing
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1. 1.1ratingsThe estimated audience size of a particular television or radio programme.
  ‘the soap's ratings have recently picked up’
  ‘Broadcast magazine compared ratings for BBC and ITV bulletins before and after the election was called.’
  ‘Week in, week out it is the soaps that dominate the ratings on British television.’
  ‘He was working in the media research industry and he was concerned mostly about television and radio ratings.’
  ‘The criterion that Mr Shier himself acknowledged as fundamental, a rise in ABC ratings, especially in television, was not achieved.’
  ‘Monday night ‘RAW’ rules the cable television ratings with growing numbers.’
  ‘Yes, but what were the television audience ratings?’
  ‘Turns out television ratings for the CBC's coverage of championship curling have been less than stellar.’
  ‘Since 2000, television broadcast ratings for almost all major sports have fallen among male viewers between 12 and 34.’
  ‘These matches have some of the highest ratings on cable television.’
  ‘And a Stern ratings drop affects the radio industry about the same way a similar drop in the Dow would affect the overall economy.’
  ‘For years, the ratings for the televised Emmy Awards have been in freefall.’
  ‘I understand they're trying to boost TV ratings - we all benefit from that.’
  ‘Leading criminal psychologist David Holmes has slammed the increasing use of rape and sex assaults to boost TV soap ratings.’
  ‘Last season's poor TV ratings proved that.’
  ‘Kiely rejected the suggestion that Kellogg's had pulled its support due to the show's poor ratings.’
  ‘The three nightly network newscasts have seen their ratings plummet 44 percent since 1980.’
  ‘And she only came out and left the show when the ratings plummeted.’
  ‘ABC's ratings slumped and it fell to a distant third behind NBC and CBS.’
  ‘If the host doesn't like the competitor or ratings slump the timer will be arbitrarily accelerated.’
  ‘And so, in the absence of any other widely available metric, the Nielsen ratings provided our performance standard.’
2. 1.2The value of a property or condition which is claimed to be standard, optimal, or limiting for a substance, material, or device.
  ‘fuel with a low octane rating’
  ‘They vary in size and durometer (the hardness rating of the wheel material, polyurethane).’
  ‘Any material with a Perm rating of less than 1.0 is considered a vapor retarder.’
  ‘Remember, the higher the perm rating of a material, the more moisture can pass through it.’
  ‘A very simple way to find out the speed rating of your current hardware configuration is to use a freeware utility.’
  ‘Fuel economy, emissions ratings and performance are equivalent to the standard wheelbase XJ saloons.’
  ‘Each response was assigned a pressure rating of between one and four and a PPI figure was then calculated for each question.’
  ‘Pet life jackets do not come with buoyancy ratings, as do human life jackets (the Coast Guard requires it).’
  ‘Rods with line-class ratings of 30 lb class or below are what may be described as light-line fishing.’
  ‘Sump pumps are generally sold according to the horsepower rating of the pump motor.’
  ‘This may result in the product failing to meet its load ratings.’
  ‘If you want hot water fast, the FHR rating will be important to you.’
3. 1.3Any of the classes into which racing yachts are assigned according to dimensions.
  ‘a masthead boat of similar rating’
  ‘The Taki-Tooo and the other vessels that left the harbor were ‘small passenger vessels,’ a higher Coast Guard licensing rating.’
  ‘Ride improves the likelihood that prospective Sailors will begin their Navy careers in the right rating for them.’
2British A non-commissioned sailor in the navy.
‘the rest of the new crew was made up of naval ratings’
- ‘When her funeral took place at Leicester Cathedral on May 23, 1997, Royal Navy ratings acted as pall bearers and a Royal Marines bugler sounded the last post.’
- ‘Further south, the sight of snow had four junior Royal Navy ratings jumping for joy, because WTR Nekisha Seaman and her friends have never seen the white stuff before.’
- ‘Aged 52, Parker was 13 years older than even his Captain, and by far the oldest rating in the Royal Navy still serving afloat.’
- ‘They also hold the enlistment papers for First World War Royal Navy ratings and some Royal Marines.’
- ‘The first batch of 30 naval ratings arrived in March 1939 to operate and guard the receiver and transmitting stations.’
- ‘A senior Naval rating who allowed his fitness to slide over the years believes RN fitness test can be a blessing in disguise.’
- ‘The SEAL community is actually open to every rating in the Navy.’
- ‘At the height of the operation, in June 1944, there were more than 100,000 officers and ratings dedicated to this specialist branch of the Royal Navy.’
- ‘The Admiral wants to see a greater involvement of Leading Hands and Petty Officers in the daily management of junior ratings.’
- ‘This faced some public opposition, with some naval ratings staging the Invergordon Mutiny.’
- ‘If you think you know all of the ratings in our Navy, you better take a closer look at the ratings at the master chief level.’
- ‘A total of around 750 RFA personnel, officers and ratings, all civilian British-registered seafarers, are taking part in Saif Sareea.’
- ‘Paul Philips has won a commendation for saving the life of a young rating caught beneath an aircraft lift in HMS Invincible.’
- ‘In addition, officers and senior ratings, in conjunction with the British Embassy, held a well-attended reception on the Saturday evening.’
- ‘In the afternoon a sporting contest - usually football or cricket - was staged between officers and ratings.’
- ‘Ten minutes later she settled on her beam in just over 30 ft of water, and became a tomb for five officers and 41 ratings.’
- ‘They will have a ship's company of 48, of whom 12 will be officers and 14 senior ratings.’
- ‘A U.S. Coast Guard cutter had transferred a pump and two Coast Guard ratings had jumped aboard with it.’
- ‘The change of plan to take the rating ashore forced the ship's command team to replot a route to anchor to the north-east of the island close to Ned's Beach.’
- ‘Making his way down the gun deck to the sick berth, several ratings saluted him.’
Origin
So named from the position or rating held by a sailor, recorded on a ship's books.