(finance) Alternative form of PE ratio

Pertaining to or characterized by ratiocination, discursive thinking, or inferential knowledge.

(nautical, uncountable) The rope or similar material used to make cross-ropes on a ship.

Anything which catches rats, especially a dog trained to catch them; a rat terrier. / One who rats; a traitor; a deserter. / A pirate miner, a miner who digs out ore or paydirt clandestinely and runs

(obsolete) More quickly. / Used to specify a choice or preference; preferably, in preference to. (Now usually followed by than) / (conjunctive) Used to introduce a contradiction; on the contrary.

(nonstandard or dialectal) To prefer; to prefer to.

(obsolete) Prior; earlier; former.

(England, dated) An enthusiastic affirmation.

A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc. / A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl. / A ratchet wrench.

(transitive) To cause to become incremented or decremented. / (intransitive) To increment or decrement.