Words that rhyme with kleine

adj 1: (mathematics) of or pertaining to the geometry of affine transformations 2: (anthropology) related by marriage [syn: affinal, affine] n 1: (anthropology) kin by marriage

v 1: place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight; "align the car with the curb"; "align the sheets of paper on the table" [syn: align, aline, line up, adjust] [ant: skew] 2: be or come into adjustment with 3: align oneself with a group or a way of thinking [syn: align, array] 4: bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation; "align the wheels of my car"; "ordinate similar parts" [syn: align, ordinate, coordinate]

v 1: give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) [syn: delegate, designate, depute, assign] 2: give out; "We were assigned new uniforms" [syn: assign, allot, portion] 3: attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" [syn: impute, ascribe, assign, attribute] 4: select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise" [syn: assign, specify, set apart] 5: attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story" [syn: put, assign] 6: make undue claims to having [syn: arrogate, assign] 7: transfer one's right to 8: decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class" [syn: assign, attribute]

adj 1: not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor) [ant: malignant] 2: pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence; "a benign smile"; "the benign sky"; "the benign influence of pure air" [syn: benign, benignant] [ant: malign] 3: kindness of disposition or manner; "the benign ruler of millions"; "benign intentions"

n 1: water containing salts; "the water in the ocean is all saltwater" [syn: seawater, saltwater, brine] [ant: fresh water, freshwater] 2: a strong solution of salt and water used for pickling v 1: soak in brine

n 1: cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone 2: backbone of an animal v 1: cut through the backbone of an animal

n 1: American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934) [syn: Cline, Martin Cline]

n 1: harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field 2: a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service; "they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly" [syn: trust, corporate trust, combine, cartel] 3: an occurrence that results in things being united [syn: combining, combine] v 1: have or possess in combination; "she unites charm with a good business sense" [syn: unite, combine] 2: put or add together; "combine resources" [syn: compound, combine] 3: combine so as to form a whole; mix; "compound the ingredients" [syn: compound, combine] 4: add together from different sources; "combine resources" 5: join for a common purpose or in a common action; "These forces combined with others" 6: gather in a mass, sum, or whole [syn: aggregate, combine] 7: mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge]

v 1: place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle] 2: restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day" [syn: limit, circumscribe, confine] 3: prevent from leaving or from being removed 4: close in; darkness enclosed him" [syn: enclose, hold in, confine] 5: deprive of freedom; take into confinement [syn: confine, detain] [ant: free, liberate, loose, release, unloose, unloosen] 6: to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom" [syn: restrain, confine, hold]

v 1: commit forever; commit irrevocably 2: give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage" [syn: consign, charge] 3: send to an address

n 1: change toward something smaller or lower [syn: decline, diminution] 2: a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state [syn: decline, declination] [ant: improvement, melioration] 3: a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current [syn: decay, decline] 4: a downward slope or bend [syn: descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope] [ant: acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, rise, upgrade] v 1: grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened" [syn: worsen, decline] [ant: ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate] 2: refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality" [syn: refuse, reject, pass up, turn down, decline] [ant: accept, have, take] 3: show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike" [syn: refuse, decline] [ant: accept, consent, go for] 4: grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned" [syn: decline, go down, wane] 5: go down; "The roof declines here" 6: go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped" [syn: decline, slump, correct] 7: inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"

v 1: make unwilling [syn: indispose, disincline] [ant: dispose, incline]

adj 1: emanating from God; "divine judgment"; "divine guidance"; "everything is black or white...satanic or godly"-Saturday Review [syn: divine, godly] 2: resulting from divine providence; "providential care"; "a providential visitation" [syn: providential, divine] 3: being or having the nature of a god; "the custom of killing the divine king upon any serious failure of his...powers"-J.G.Frazier; "the divine will"; "the divine capacity for love"; "'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create"-J.G.Saxe [syn: divine, godlike] 4: devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; "divine worship"; "divine liturgy" 5: appropriate to or befitting a god; "the divine strength of Achilles"; "a man of godlike sagacity"; "man must play God for he has acquired certain godlike powers"-R.H.Roveref [syn: divine, godlike] 6: being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance" [syn: divine, elysian, inspired] n 1: terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God [syn: Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah] 2: a clergyman or other person in religious orders [syn: cleric, churchman, divine, ecclesiastic] v 1: perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers 2: search by divining, as if with a rod; "He claimed he could divine underground water"

adj 1: evil or harmful in nature or influence; "prompted by malign motives"; "believed in witches and malign spirits"; "gave him a malign look"; "a malign lesion" [ant: benign, benignant] 2: having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force" [syn: malefic, malevolent, malign, evil] v 1: speak unfavorably about; "She badmouths her husband everywhere" [syn: badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud]

n 1: excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted 2: explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel v 1: get from the earth by excavation; "mine ores and metals" 2: lay mines; "The Vietnamese mined Cambodia"

adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten [syn: nine, 9, ix] n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one [syn: nine, 9, IX, niner, Nina from Carolina, ennead] 2: a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together; "each club played six home games with teams in its own division" [syn: baseball club, ball club, club, nine] 3: one of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face [syn: nine-spot, nine]

v 1: express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation; "John spoke up at the meeting" [syn: opine, speak up, speak out, animadvert, sound off] 2: expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up" [syn: think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess]

n 1: a coniferous tree [syn: pine, pine tree, true pine] 2: straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus v 1: have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover" [syn: ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish]

v 1: align anew or better; "The surgeon realigned my jaw after the accident" [syn: realign, realine]

v 1: transfer somebody to a different position or location of work [syn: transfer, reassign]

v 1: move the upper body backwards and down [syn: lean back, recline] 2: cause to recline; "She reclined her head on the pillow" 3: lean in a comfortable resting position; "He was reposing on the couch" [syn: recumb, repose, recline]

v 1: undergo genetic recombination; "The DNA can recombine" 2: cause genetic recombination; "should scientists recombine DNA?" 3: to combine or put together again

v 1: give a new or different definition to; "She redefined his duties" 2: give a new or different definition of (a word)

v 1: design anew, make a new design for

v 1: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing" [syn: polish, refine, fine-tune, down] 2: make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern" [syn: complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate] 3: treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil" 4: reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar" [syn: refine, rectify] 5: attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying; "many valuable nutrients are refined out of the foods in our modern diet" 6: make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"

v 1: leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds" [syn: vacate, resign, renounce, give up] 2: give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal" [syn: leave office, quit, step down, resign] [ant: take office] 3: part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne" [syn: release, relinquish, resign, free, give up] 4: accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" [syn: resign, reconcile, submit]

n 1: the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light [syn: radiance, radiancy, shine, effulgence, refulgence, refulgency] v 1: be bright by reflecting or casting light; "Drive carefully --the wet road reflects" [syn: reflect, shine] 2: emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light; "The sun shone bright that day"; "The fire beamed on their faces" [syn: shine, beam] 3: be shiny, as if wet; "His eyes were glistening" [syn: glitter, glisten, glint, gleam, shine] 4: be distinguished or eminent; "His talent shines" 5: be clear and obvious; "A shining example" 6: have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna" [syn: glow, beam, radiate, shine] 7: throw or flash the light of (a lamp); "Shine the light on that window, please" 8: touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears" [syn: fall, shine, strike] 9: experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion; "She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with happiness" [syn: glow, beam, radiate, shine] 10: make (a surface) shine; "shine the silver, please"; "polish my shoes" [syn: polish, smooth, smoothen, shine]

n 1: a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person v 1: enclose in a shrine; "the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral" [syn: enshrine, shrine]

adj 1: used of the language of the deaf [syn: gestural, sign(a), signed, sign-language(a)] n 1: a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened); "he showed signs of strain"; "they welcomed the signs of spring" [syn: sign, mark] 2: a public display of a message; "he posted signs in all the shop windows" 3: any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message; "signals from the boat suddenly stopped" [syn: signal, signaling, sign] 4: structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted; "the highway was lined with signboards" [syn: signboard, sign] 5: (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided [syn: sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house] 6: (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease; "there were no signs of asphyxiation" 7: having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges); "he got the polarity of the battery reversed"; "charges of opposite sign" [syn: polarity, sign] 8: an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God" [syn: augury, sign, foretoken, preindication] 9: a gesture that is part of a sign language 10: a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified; "The bond between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary"--de Saussure 11: a character indicating a relation between quantities; "don't forget the minus sign" v 1: mark with one's signature; write one's name (on); "She signed the letter and sent it off"; "Please sign here" [syn: sign, subscribe] 2: approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation; "All parties ratified the peace treaty"; "Have you signed your contract yet?" [syn: sign, ratify] 3: be engaged by a written agreement; "He signed to play the casino on Dec. 18"; "The soprano signed to sing the new opera" 4: engage by written agreement; "They signed two new pitchers for the next season" [syn: sign, contract, sign on, sign up] 5: communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs; "He signed his disapproval with a dismissive hand gesture"; "The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu" [syn: sign, signal, signalize, signalise] 6: place signs, as along a road; "sign an intersection"; "This road has been signed" 7: communicate in sign language; "I don't know how to sign, so I could not communicate with my deaf cousin" 8: make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate [syn: bless, sign]

n 1: ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle [syn: sine, sin]

n 1: the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back" [syn: spinal column, vertebral column, spine, backbone, back, rachis] 2: any sharply pointed projection [syn: spur, spine, acantha] 3: a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf [syn: spine, thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet] 4: the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved; "the title and author were printed on the spine of the book" [syn: spine, backbone] 5: a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin

n 1: a flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines 2: a thin strip (wood or metal) [syn: slat, spline]

n 1: a mug intended for serving beer [syn: beer mug, stein] 2: experimental expatriate United States writer (1874-1946) [syn: Stein, Gertrude Stein]

adj 1: lying face upward [syn: supine, resupine] 2: offering no resistance; "resistless hostages"; "No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore Roosevelt [syn: resistless, supine, unresisting]

n 1: stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals

n 1: prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler

n 1: a lightweight cord [syn: string, twine] v 1: spin,wind, or twist together; "intertwine the ribbons"; "Twine the threads into a rope"; "intertwined hearts" [syn: intertwine, twine, entwine, enlace, interlace, lace] [ant: untwine] 2: arrange or or coil around; "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child" [syn: wind, wrap, roll, twine] [ant: unroll, unwind, wind off] 3: make by twisting together or intertwining; "twine a rope" 4: form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted" [syn: twist, twine, distort] [ant: untwist]

n 1: a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

n 1: a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way [syn: whimper, whine] v 1: move with a whining sound; "The bullets were whining past us" 2: talk in a tearful manner [syn: snivel, whine] 3: make a high-pitched, screeching noise; "The door creaked when I opened it slowly"; "My car engine makes a whining noise" [syn: whine, squeak, screech, creak, screak, skreak] 4: complain whiningly [syn: whine, grizzle, yammer, yawp]

n 1: fermented juice (of grapes especially) [syn: wine, vino] 2: a red as dark as red wine [syn: wine, wine-colored, wine-coloured] v 1: drink wine 2: treat to wine; "Our relatives in Italy wined and dined us for a week"

n 1: German mathematician who created the Klein bottle (1849-1925) [syn: Klein, Felix Klein] 2: United States psychoanalyst (born in Austria) who was the first to specialize in the psychoanalysis of small children (1882-1960) [syn: Klein, Melanie Klein] 3: United States fashion designer noted for understated fashions (born in 1942) [syn: Klein, Calvin Klein, Calvin Richard Klein]

n 1: United States abstract expressionist painter (1910-1962) [syn: Kline, Franz Kline, Franz Joseph Kline]

n 1: United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001) [syn: Quine, W. V. Quine, Willard Van Orman Quine]

n 1: a major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea [syn: Rhine, Rhine River, Rhein]

n 1: United States parapsychologist (1895-1980) [syn: Rhine, J. B. Rhine, Joseph Banks Rhine] 2: a major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world; flows into the North Sea [syn: Rhine, Rhine River, Rhein]

n 1: a river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea [syn: Tyne, River Tyne, Tyne River]

v 1: place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight; "align the car with the curb"; "align the sheets of paper on the table" [syn: align, aline, line up, adjust] [ant: skew]

n 1: European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors; cultivated in America [syn: common hop, common hops, bine, European hop, Humulus lupulus]