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Webster 1913 Edition
Rat
Rat
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Ratted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ratting
.] 1.
In English politics, to desert one’s party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union.
Coleridge . . . incurred the reproach of having
ratted
, solely by his inability to follow the friends of his early days. De Quincey.
2.
To catch or kill rats.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rat
RAT
,Noun.
A small quadruped of the genus Mus, which infests houses, stores and ships; a troublesome race of animals.
To smell a rat, to be suspicious, to be on the watch from suspicion; as a cat by the scent or noise of a rat.
Definition 2024
rät
rät
Swedish
Adjective
rät (comparative rätare, superlative rätast)
- (not comparable) the side of a fabric which is supposed to be the visible side
- (of an angle) right
- right; straight, not bent
Declension
| Inflection of rät | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite/attributive | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | rät | rätare | rätast |
| Neuter singular | rätare | rätast | |
| Plural | räta | rätare | rätast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | räte | rätare | rätaste |
| All | räta | rätare | rätaste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in an attributive role. | |||
See also
- räta, räta ut
- rät maska