Words that rhyme with chevet

v 1: make known; pass on, of information; "She conveyed the message to me" 2: serve as a means for expressing something; "The painting of Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot of anger" [syn: carry, convey, express] 3: transfer to another; "communicate a disease" [syn: convey, transmit, communicate] 4: transmit a title or property 5: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel] 6: take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" [syn: bring, convey, take] 7: go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat" [syn: bring, get, convey, fetch] [ant: bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off, take away]

n 1: a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider [syn: eiderdown, duvet, continental quilt]

v 1: complain bitterly [syn: rail, inveigh] 2: speak against in an impassioned manner; "he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society" [syn: declaim, inveigh]

n 1: a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court) 2: a pier that provides a landing place on a river 3: an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing

n 1: a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows v 1: cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic; "pave the roads in the village"

v 1: address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer; "pray to the Lord" 2: call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!" [syn: beg, implore, pray]

v 1: pay for something before receiving it

n 1: a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair game"; "the target of a manhunt" [syn: prey, quarry, target, fair game] 2: animal hunted or caught for food [syn: prey, quarry] v 1: profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He feeds on her insecurity" [syn: prey, feed] 2: prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs" [syn: raven, prey, predate]

n 1: food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender v 1: rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender; "puree the vegetables for the baby" [syn: puree, strain]

v 1: supply with provisions [syn: provision, purvey]

n 1: wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline

n 1: a column of light (as from a beacon) [syn: beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, irradiation] 2: a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence 3: (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point 4: a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation [syn: beam, ray, electron beam] 5: the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization [syn: re, ray] 6: any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish 7: cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins v 1: emit as rays; "That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky" 2: extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiate spines in all directions" [syn: radiate, ray] 3: expose to radiation; "irradiate food" [syn: irradiate, ray]

n 1: a rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys; is obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenum [syn: rhenium, Re, atomic number 75] 2: ancient Egyptian sun god with the head of a hawk; a universal creator; he merged with the god Amen as Amen-Ra to become the king of the gods [syn: Ra, Re] 3: the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization [syn: re, ray]

v 1: pay back; "Please refund me my money" [syn: refund, return, repay, give back] 2: make repayment for or return something [syn: requite, repay] 3: act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions [syn: reward, repay, pay back] 4: answer back [syn: retort, come back, repay, return, riposte, rejoin]

n 1: something (especially a game) that is played again [syn: replay, rematch] 2: the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape [syn: replay, instant replay, action replay] v 1: reproduce (a recording) on a recorder; "The lawyers played back the conversation to show that their client was innocent" [syn: play back, replay] 2: play (a melody) again 3: repeat a game against the same opponent; "Princeton replayed Harvard" 4: play again; "We replayed the game"; "replay a point"

n 1: the chance to speak; "let him have his say" v 1: express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name" [syn: state, say, tell] 2: report or maintain; "He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"; "He said it was too late to intervene in the war"; "The registrar says that I owe the school money" [syn: allege, aver, say] 3: express a supposition; "Let us say that he did not tell the truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?" [syn: suppose, say] 4: have or contain a certain wording or form; "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?" [syn: read, say] 5: give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed" [syn: order, tell, enjoin, say] 6: speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn: pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say] 7: communicate or express nonverbally; "What does this painting say?"; "Did his face say anything about how he felt?" 8: utter aloud; "She said `Hello' to everyone in the office" 9: state as one's opinion or judgement; declare; "I say let's forget this whole business" 10: recite or repeat a fixed text; "Say grace"; "She said her `Hail Mary'" 11: indicate; "The clock says noon"

n 1: a detailed critical inspection [syn: survey, study] 2: short descriptive summary (of events) [syn: sketch, survey, resume] 3: the act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited" [syn: view, survey, sight] v 1: consider in a comprehensive way; "He appraised the situation carefully before acting" [syn: survey, appraise] 2: look over carefully or inspect; "He surveyed his new classmates" 3: keep under surveillance; "The police had been following him for weeks but they could not prove his involvement in the bombing" [syn: surveil, follow, survey] 4: hold a review (of troops) [syn: review, go over, survey] 5: make a survey of; for statistical purposes 6: plot a map of (land)

adv 1: in these times; "it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished"- Nancy Mitford; "we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets"; "today almost every home has television" [syn: nowadays, now, today] 2: on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow; "I can't meet with you today" n 1: the present time or age; "the world of today"; "today we have computers" 2: the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow); "Today is beautiful"; "did you see today's newspaper?"

n 1: a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness [syn: toupee, toupe]

n 1: an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food

n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce- ace] 2: one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips [syn: trey, three]

v 1: act (a role) with great restraint [syn: underact, underplay] [ant: ham, ham it up, overact, overplay] 2: play a card lower than (a held high card)

adj 1: currently in progress; "there is mischief afoot"; "plans are afoot"; "preparations for the trial are underway" [syn: afoot(p), underway]

n 1: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet, valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man] v 1: serve as a personal attendant to

adv 1: to a great degree or by a great distance; very much (`right smart' is regional in the United States); "way over budget"; "way off base"; "the other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on" [syn: way, right smart] n 1: how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion" [syn: manner, mode, style, way, fashion] 2: how a result is obtained or an end is achieved; "a means of control"; "an example is the best agency of instruction"; "the true way to success" [syn: means, agency, way] 3: a line leading to a place or point; "he looked the other direction"; "didn't know the way home" [syn: direction, way] 4: the condition of things generally; "that's the way it is"; "I felt the same way" 5: a course of conduct; "the path of virtue"; "we went our separate ways"; "our paths in life led us apart"; "genius usually follows a revolutionary path" [syn: way, path, way of life] 6: any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another; "he said he was looking for the way out" 7: a journey or passage; "they are on the way" 8: space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around" [syn: room, way, elbow room] 9: the property of distance in general; "it's a long way to Moscow"; "he went a long ways" 10: doing as one pleases or chooses; "if I had my way" 11: a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'; "they didn't have much in the way of clothing" 12: a portion of something divided into shares; "they split the loot three ways"

v 1: have a certain weight 2: show consideration for; take into account; "You must consider her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient" [syn: consider, count, weigh] 3: determine the weight of; "The butcher weighed the chicken" [syn: weigh, librate] 4: have weight; have import, carry weight; "It does not matter much" [syn: count, matter, weigh] 5: to be oppressive or burdensome; "weigh heavily on the mind", "Something pressed on his mind" [syn: weigh, press]

n 1: the serum or watery part of milk that is separated from the curd in making cheese [syn: whey, milk whey] 2: watery part of milk produced when raw milk sours and coagulates; "Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating some curds and whey"

adv 1: not only so, but; "I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice" [syn: yea, yeah] n 1: an affirmative; "The yeas have it" [ant: nay]

n 1: a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts [syn: neon, Ne, atomic number 10] 2: the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees [syn: northeast, nor'-east, northeastward, NE] 3: a midwestern state on the Great Plains [syn: Nebraska, Cornhusker State, NE]

n 1: a toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium; occurs in several allotropic forms; a stable grey metallike allotrope conducts electricity better in the light than in the dark and is used in photocells; occurs in sulfide ores (as pyrite) [syn: selenium, Se, atomic number 34] 2: the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees [syn: southeast, sou'-east, southeastward, SE]

n 1: East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye [syn: dhak, dak, palas, Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma]

n 1: a former province of east central France; now administered by Rhone-Alpes

n 1: the upper part of a glacier (beyond the limit of perpetual snow) where the snow turns to ice

n 1: lack of sophistication or worldliness [syn: naivete, naivety, naiveness] [ant: mundaneness, mundanity, sophistication, worldliness]

n 1: unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes

adj 1: (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired [syn: champleve, cloisonne]

n 1: a new survey or study

n 1: Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922) [syn: Solvay, Ernest Solvay]