Words that rhyme with tveit

n 1: a secondary or inferior position or status; "tennis has had to take a backseat while his work is so demanding" 2: a seat at the back of a vehicle (especially the seat at the back of an automobile)

adj 1: very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" [syn: all in(p), beat(p), bushed(p), dead(p)] n 1: a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name" [syn: beat, round] 2: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart" [syn: pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beat] 3: the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" [syn: rhythm, beat, musical rhythm] 4: a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations 5: a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior [syn: beatnik, beat] 6: the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum" 7: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence] 8: a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat" 9: a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe" 10: the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing v 1: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" [syn: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish] 2: give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" [syn: beat, beat up, work over] 3: hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" 4: move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" [syn: beat, pound, thump] 5: shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares" 6: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn: drum, beat, thrum] 7: glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us" 8: move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" [syn: beat, flap] 9: sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind" 10: stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" [syn: beat, scramble] 11: strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically" 12: be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!" 13: avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" [syn: beat, bunk] 14: make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" [syn: tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat] 15: move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping" [syn: beat, flap] 16: indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm" 17: move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" [syn: pulsate, beat, quiver] 18: make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest" 19: produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum" 20: strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting 21: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" [syn: outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent] 22: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound] 23: wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" [syn: exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out]

n 1: biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop [syn: beet, common beet, Beta vulgaris] 2: round red root vegetable [syn: beet, beetroot]

n 1: the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) v 1: talk whiningly 2: cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating" [syn: bleat, blate, blat, baa]

n 1: weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous [syn: darnel, tare, bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum] 2: weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat [syn: chess, cheat, Bromus secalinus] 3: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true [syn: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker] 4: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud" [syn: swindle, cheat, rig] 5: a deception for profit to yourself [syn: cheat, cheating] v 1: deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" [syn: cheat, rip off, chisel] 2: defeat someone through trickery or deceit [syn: cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey] 3: engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?" [syn: cheat, chisel] 4: be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?" [syn: cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander]

n 1: a metal or leather projection (as from the sole of a shoe); prevents slipping 2: a fastener (usually with two projecting horns) around which a rope can be secured 3: a strip of wood or metal used to strengthen the surface to which it is attached v 1: provide with cleats; "cleat running shoes for better traction" 2: secure on a cleat; "cleat a line"

v 1: compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others [syn: compete, vie, contend]

adj 1: having every necessary or normal part or component or step; "a complete meal"; "a complete wardrobe"; "a complete set of the Britannica"; "a complete set of china"; "a complete defeat"; "a complete accounting" [ant: incomplete, uncomplete] 2: perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities; "a complete gentleman"; "consummate happiness"; "a consummate performance" [syn: complete, consummate] 3: highly skilled; "an accomplished pianist"; "a complete musician" [syn: accomplished, complete] 4: 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] 5: having come or been brought to a conclusion; "the harvesting was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished"; "the abruptly terminated interview" [syn: complete, concluded, ended, over(p), all over, terminated] v 1: come or bring to a finish or an end; "He finished the dishes"; "She completed the requirements for her Master's Degree"; "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours" [syn: complete, finish] 2: bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements; "A child would complete the family" 3: complete or carry out; "discharge one's duties" [syn: dispatch, discharge, complete] 4: complete a pass [syn: complete, nail] 5: write all the required information onto a form; "fill out this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form" [syn: complete, fill out, fill in, make out]

n 1: feelings of excessive pride [syn: amour propre, conceit, self-love, vanity] 2: an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things 3: a witty or ingenious turn of phrase; "he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit" 4: an artistic device or effect; "the architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree" 5: the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride [syn: conceit, conceitedness, vanity] [ant: humbleness, humility]

adj 1: capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary; "concrete objects such as trees" [ant: abstract] 2: formed by the coalescence of particles n 1: a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water v 1: cover with cement; "concrete the walls" 2: form into a solid mass; coalesce

n 1: the quality of being fraudulent [syn: fraudulence, deceit] 2: a misleading falsehood [syn: misrepresentation, deceit, deception] 3: the act of deceiving [syn: deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation]

v 1: remove from political office; "The Republicans are trying to unseat the liberal Democrat" 2: dislodge from one's seat, as from a horse

n 1: annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains 2: grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour [syn: wheat, wheat berry] 3: a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white [syn: pale yellow, straw, wheat]

n 1: the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC [syn: Crete, Kriti]

adj 1: not complete or total; not completed; "an incomplete account of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete military success"; "an incomplete forward pass" [syn: incomplete, uncomplete] [ant: complete]