Measure
Rate
Rate noun - Degree of excellence.
Usage example: not being of the first rate, these apples are usually sold as food for livestock
Measure is a synonym for rate in speed topic. You can use "Measure" instead the word "Rate" as a verb or a noun, if it concerns topics such as activity, judge, assess, evaluate.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| human | human measure | human rate |
| good | good measure | good rate |
| full | full measure | full rate |
| best | best measure | best rate |
| Other adjectives: standard, reasonable, small, effective, actual, extreme, great, possible, ridiculous, insane. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The infidelity rate is harder to measure exactly, but is also quite high.
- Also, it's noted that badgers, especially Badger Lords, can live four times longer than the other species - most of Mossflower's creatures measure time in "seasons", so evidently Mossflower's badgers age at the same rate as real-life humans.
Source: Methuselah Syndrome - People with cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) are immune to polygraphs (lie-detector tests) that measure stress-induced changes in heart rate, since they're having them all the time anyway.
Source: Disability Immunity
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