rating

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of ratepresent participle and gerund of rate

noun

1. 1

   A position on a scale.

2. 2

   An evaluation of status, especially of financial status.

   They have a poor credit rating.

3. 3

   A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.

   He has a high chess rating.

4. 4

   A quantitative measure of the audience of a television program.

   A rating, at best, is an indication of how many people saw what you gave them.

5. 5

   A seaman in a warship.

   Some 400 Russian ratings are living in the western French port, awaiting delivery of their controversial new command-and-control ship, the Vladivostok.

6. 6

   An enlisted seaman not a commissioned officer or warrant officer.

   In the Royal Navy the ratings, in order, are: ordinary seaman, able seaman, leading seaman, petty officer and chief petty officer.

   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

Forms

plural

ratings