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Ration
- noun - a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity)
- distribute in rations, as in the army; "Cigarettes are rationed"
- restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war; "Bread was rationed during the siege of the city"
- the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel); "the rations should be nutritionally balanced"
Ratios
- noun - the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree; "an inordinate proportion of the book is given over to quotations"; "a dry martini has a large proportion of gin"
- the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient)
Ratite
- noun - flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds
Ratlin
- noun - (nautical) a small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship; they form a ladder for climbing aloft
Rattan
- noun - a switch made from the stems of the rattan palms
- climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes
- the stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes
Ratted
- verb - catch rats, especially with dogs
- desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage
- employ scabs or strike breakers in
- give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat
- give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"
- take the place of work of someone on strike
Ratten
- - To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike.
Ratter
- noun - a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
- any of several breeds of terrier developed to catch rats
Rattle
- noun - a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken
- a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders); "the death rattle"
- loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail
- make short successive sounds
- shake and cause to make a rattling noise
- unnerve