Words that rhyme with pecht

n 1: the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion v 1: have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?" [syn: affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch] 2: act physically on; have an effect upon; "the medicine affects my heart rate" 3: connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business" [syn: involve, affect, regard] 4: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" [syn: feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble] 5: have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd" [syn: affect, impress, move, strike]

adj 1: patterned with alternating squares of color [syn: checked, checkered, chequered]

adv 1: make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays; "call collect"; "send a package collect" adj 1: payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" [syn: collect, cod] n 1: a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England v 1: get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" [syn: roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard] 2: call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent" [syn: collect, take in] 3: assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" [syn: gather, garner, collect, pull together] [ant: distribute, spread] 4: get or bring together; "accumulate evidence" [syn: collect, pull in] 5: gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up our trash twice a week" [syn: collect, pick up, gather up, call for]

n 1: a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts [syn: candy, confect] v 1: make or construct 2: make into a confection; "This medicine is home-confected" [syn: confect, confection, comfit]

v 1: connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms" [syn: connect, link, tie, link up] [ant: disconnect] 2: make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" [syn: associate, tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up, connect] [ant: decouple, dissociate] 3: be or become joined or united or linked; "The two streets connect to become a highway"; "Our paths joined"; "The travelers linked up again at the airport" [syn: connect, link, link up, join, unite] 4: join by means of communication equipment; "The telephone company finally put in lines to connect the towns in this area" 5: land on or hit solidly; "The brick connected on her head, knocking her out" 6: join for the purpose of communication; "Operator, could you connect me to the Raffles in Singapore?" 7: be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation; "The local train does not connect with the Amtrak train"; "The planes don't connect and you will have to wait for four hours" 8: establish a rapport or relationship; "The President of this university really connects with the faculty" 9: establish communication with someone; "did you finally connect with your long-lost cousin?" [syn: get in touch, touch base, connect] 10: plug into an outlet; "Please plug in the toaster!"; "Connect the TV so we can watch the football game tonight" [syn: plug in, plug into, connect] [ant: disconnect, unplug] 11: hit or play a ball successfully; "The batter connected for a home run"

adj 1: free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth; "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision" [syn: correct, right] [ant: incorrect, wrong] 2: socially right or correct; "it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye"; "correct behavior" [syn: correct, right] 3: in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure; "what's the right word for this?"; "the right way to open oysters" [syn: correct, right] 4: correct in opinion or judgment; "time proved him right" [syn: right, correct] [ant: wrong] v 1: make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation" [syn: correct, rectify, right] [ant: falsify] 2: make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust" [syn: right, compensate, redress, correct] [ant: wrong] 3: censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks" [syn: chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct] 4: adjust for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance" [syn: compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even up] 5: punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently" [syn: discipline, correct, sort out] 6: go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped" [syn: decline, slump, correct] 7: alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels" [syn: adjust, set, correct] 8: treat a defect; "The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia"

adj 1: being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish; "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day" [ant: imperfect] 2: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated] 3: precisely accurate or exact; "perfect timing" n 1: a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) [syn: perfective, perfective tense, perfect, perfect tense] v 1: make perfect or complete; "perfect your French in Paris!" [syn: perfect, hone]

n 1: any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings" [syn: undertaking, project, task, labor] 2: a planned undertaking [syn: project, projection] v 1: communicate vividly; "He projected his feelings" 2: extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff" [syn: stick out, protrude, jut out, jut, project] 3: transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another 4: project on a screen; "The images are projected onto the screen" 5: cause to be heard; "His voice projects well" 6: draw a projection of 7: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack" [syn: plan, project, contrive, design] 8: present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.; "He proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism"; "She proposed a new theory of relativity" [syn: project, propose] 9: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image] 10: put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light" [syn: project, cast, contrive, throw] 11: throw, send, or cast forward; "project a missile" [syn: project, send off] 12: regard as objective [syn: project, externalize, externalise]

v 1: shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage; "Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain" 2: use tariffs to favor domestic industry

v 1: recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories" [syn: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think] [ant: blank out, block, draw a blank, forget]

v 1: channel into a new direction; "redirect your attention to the danger from the fundamentalists" [syn: redirect, airt]

v 1: manifest or bring back; "This action reflects his true beliefs" 2: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate] 3: to throw or bend back (from a surface); "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium" [syn: reflect, reverberate] 4: be bright by reflecting or casting light; "Drive carefully-- the wet road reflects" [syn: reflect, shine] 5: show an image of; "her sunglasses reflected his image" 6: give evidence of a certain behavior; "His lack of interest in the project reflects badly on him" 7: give evidence of the quality of; "The mess in his dorm room reflects on the student"

n 1: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality [syn: cull, reject] v 1: refuse to accept or acknowledge; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper" [ant: accept] 2: refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality" [syn: refuse, reject, pass up, turn down, decline] [ant: accept, have, take] 3: deem wrong or inappropriate; "I disapprove of her child rearing methods" [syn: disapprove, reject] [ant: O.K., approve, okay, sanction] 4: reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" [syn: reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn down] 5: resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor" [syn: resist, reject, refuse] 6: refuse entrance or membership; "They turned away hundreds of fans"; "Black people were often rejected by country clubs" [syn: reject, turn down, turn away, refuse] [ant: admit, allow in, intromit, let in] 7: dismiss from consideration or a contest; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration" [syn: rule out, eliminate, winnow out, reject]

n 1: (usually preceded by `in') a detail or point; "it differs in that respect" [syn: respect, regard] 2: the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded); "it is held in esteem"; "a man who has earned high regard" [syn: esteem, regard, respect] [ant: disesteem] 3: an attitude of admiration or esteem; "she lost all respect for him" [syn: respect, esteem, regard] [ant: disrespect] 4: a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard; "his deference to her wishes was very flattering"; "be sure to give my respects to the dean" [syn: deference, respect] 5: behavior intended to please your parents; "their children were never very strong on obedience"; "he went to law school out of respect for his father's wishes" [syn: obedience, respect] 6: a feeling of friendship and esteem; "she mistook his manly regard for love"; "he inspires respect" [syn: regard, respect] 7: courteous regard for people's feelings; "in deference to your wishes"; "out of respect for his privacy" [syn: deference, respect, respectfulness] v 1: regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity" [syn: respect, esteem, value, prize, prise] [ant: disesteem, disrespect] 2: show respect towards; "honor your parents!" [syn: respect, honor, honour, abide by, observe] [ant: disrespect]

v 1: cause to become alive again; "raise from the dead"; "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected"; "Upraising ghosts" [syn: resurrect, raise, upraise] 2: restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state; "He revived this style of opera"; "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina" [syn: revive, resurrect] 3: return from the dead; "Christ is risen!"; "The dead are to uprise" [syn: resurrect, rise, uprise]

n 1: a subdivision of a larger religious group [syn: sect, religious sect, religious order] 2: a dissenting clique [syn: faction, sect]

adj 1: of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches" [syn: choice, prime(a), prize, quality, select] 2: selected or chosen for special qualifications; "the blue- ribbon event of the season" [syn: blue-ribbon(a), select] v 1: pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" [syn: choose, take, select, pick out]

adj 1: possibly accepting or permitting; "a passage capable of misinterpretation"; "open to interpretation"; "an issue open to question"; "the time is fixed by the director and players and therefore subject to much variation" [syn: capable, open, subject] 2: being under the power or sovereignty of another or others; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince" [syn: subject, dependent] 3: likely to be affected by something; "the bond is subject to taxation"; "he is subject to fits of depression" n 1: the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love" [syn: subject, topic, theme] 2: something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation; "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject" [syn: subject, content, depicted object] 3: a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" [syn: discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick] 4: some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police" [syn: topic, subject, issue, matter] 5: (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated 6: a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities" [syn: subject, case, guinea pig] 7: a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects" [syn: national, subject] 8: (logic) the first term of a proposition v 1: cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to; "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation" 2: make accountable for; "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors" 3: make subservient; force to submit or subdue [syn: subjugate, subject] 4: refer for judgment or consideration; "The lawyers submitted the material to the court" [syn: submit, subject]

adj 1: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious] n 1: someone who is under suspicion 2: a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused [syn: defendant, suspect] [ant: complainant, plaintiff] v 1: imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it" [syn: suspect, surmise] 2: regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in [syn: distrust, mistrust, suspect] [ant: bank, rely, swear, trust] 3: hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty; "The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks"

adj 1: not restrained or controlled; "unbridled rage"; "an unchecked temper"; "ungoverned rage" [syn: unbridled, unchecked, uncurbed, ungoverned]

n 1: German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956) [syn: Brecht, Bertolt Brecht]

v 1: elect again [syn: reelect, return]