What's the difference between cheat and cleat?

Cheat


Definition:

  • (n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
  • (n.) One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.
  • (n.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.
  • (n.) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.
  • (n.) To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.
  • (n.) To beguile.
  • (v. i.) To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.
  • (n.) Wheat, or bread made from wheat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 12 October China’s quality watchdog says it is “highly concerned” about the cheat device in VW’s diesel cars.
  • (2) "I always thought it would be the Colombians who would cheat me out of the money, but they made good," Juan told the magazine.
  • (3) We’re prepared to inform international society about the steps we’re taking, the investigation, the decisions.” Pound’s report, commissioned in the wake of a devastating documentary by the German journalist Hajo Seppelt for ARD in December last year, outlined systemic cheating on a grand scale including a second “shadow lab” that was used to screen samples, anti-doping labs infiltrated by secret service agents and positive tests covered up for cash.
  • (4) No evidence of systematic cheating has been found in the tests administered by the four other main providers of English language tests in Britain.
  • (5) For a "free form" class project in senior year I did a quiz show-style performance piece based on her life ("Ted Hughes cheated on Sylvia Plath: True or False?")
  • (6) Sly, underhanded, contemptuous, mendacious, double-dealing, cheating democracy.
  • (7) Perspective needed on migration and the UK | Letters Read more “Experience tells us that employers who are prepared to cheat employment rules are also likely to breach health and safety rules and pay insufficient tax.
  • (8) The report of the inquiry, which helped bring down the Irish government of the day, found fraud and serious illegality in Goodman's companies in the 1980s that had involved not just the faking of documents, but also the commissioning of bogus official stamps, including those of other countries, to misclassify carcasses; passing off of inferior beef trimmings as higher-grade meat; cheating of customs officers; and institutionalised tax evasion.
  • (9) It has been a long time for me to be playing football and I didn’t want to cheat them or anyone.
  • (10) But a report sent from the research centre to the directorate as far back as 2010 warned that its testing had found potential cheating by a car-maker.
  • (11) During a subsequent session we were told that if we had cheated during the test we were putting lives at risk.
  • (12) It is about whether Mr Woolas should be disqualified for cheating.
  • (13) The NT makes an ambitious and worthwhile argument: the evidence of a misaligned system of food production is evident at almost every stage – in polluted watercourses and compacted land, in horsemeat passed off as beef and foreign produce repackaged and traded as British, in gangmasters cruelly exploiting migrant labour, and the processing industry cheating on quality.
  • (14) With Redknapp's and Mandaric's trial now over, it can be revealed that as a result of Operation Apprentice, Storrie was prosecuted, charged with cheating the public revenue in relation to the alleged payment to Faye, and that he and Mandaric were also tried for tax evasion over an alleged termination fee paid to the midfielder Eyal Berkovic via a company, Medellin Enterprises, registered in the British Virgin Islands.
  • (15) How big a problem is cheating and plagiarism among students?
  • (16) Everyone seemed to be cheating and the instructors weren't doing anything to stop it.
  • (17) Yet at HMRC it was decided that prominent British individuals found to be cheating on their taxes would not be prosecuted, a process which would have led to them being named and the facts coming out.
  • (18) Guenter Verheugen, the enlargement commissioner who helped Cyprus into the EU, told the European parliament yesterday he felt "disappointed" and "cheated" by the Greek-Cypriot government.
  • (19) Leicester City’s dash to an unlikely Premier League title is billed as football’s most romantic story in a generation but the Football League is still investigating the club’s 2013-14 promotion season amid strong concerns from other clubs they may have cheated financial fair play rules.
  • (20) Tribunal cases against tax cheats should be handled more quickly – many tax cases can take a decade to resolve and the first-tier tribunals have a backlog of 30,000 cases waiting to be heard.

Cleat


Definition:

  • (n.) A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
  • (n.) A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope.
  • (v. t.) To strengthen with a cleat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The appliance consisted of a 9 mm length of closed coil spring suspended between a cleat and bonded to the occlusal surface of the maxillary first molars and the maxillary incisors.
  • (2) Tooth movement was quantified from enlarged cephalograms by measuring the position of a reproducible landmark on the molar cleat with respect to either zygomatic amalgam implants or a barbed broach placed submucosally on the palate.
  • (3) We are Jackie Robinson, enduring scorn and spiked cleats and pitches coming straight to his head, and stealing home in the World Series anyway.
  • (4) Some players went on the field with cleats that were not good for this weather and these conditions,” the Colombian protested.
  • (5) Super Bowl shoe cleats Expect to see a number of big brands launching 3D printing projects this year – part R&D and part PR campaigns.
  • (6) Castigated for being cocky and aloof, Wilson was branded by some as an “AA meeting in cleats” and wound up being one of the most despised athletes in Dallas.
  • (7) He had struggled throughout the game with the field conditions – switching his cleats at half-time in an effort to achieve some purchase on the frozen surface – and was fortunate to see two second-half efforts from Real Salt Lake rebound off the woodwork, but saved his best for the shoot-out.
  • (8) The players are in multiple layers and have a selection of cleats (boots) depending on how it all shakes out.
  • (9) Waterproof overshoes Cycling shoes with cleats are the best winter investment you can make.
  • (10) Undue fixation may be by 1-inch mud cleats, baseball spikes, or a modern wrestling mat.
  • (11) Injury rates were reduced by wearing shorter cleats and preseason conditioning.
  • (12) Alongside it were all the other tools of his trade: a helmet, shoulder pads, game pants and two sets of cleats – interchangeable depending on the weather and the condition of the field.
  • (13) No conclusion could be drawn about the protection afforded a player from the use of a mitt or cleats.
  • (14) The authors have studied the alterations in cleat-surface friction of AstroTurf associated with use and exposure.
  • (15) This can be diagnosed by a physiotherapist and corrected using a stack build-up kit (these are wedges that fit underneath the cleat), which are available from bike shops.
  • (16) The study was predicated upon the assumption that many knee injuries are torque-related and due to foot fixation, either by rigid cleating or by excessive traction between the shoe and playing surface.
  • (17) Three cleat types were studied on five year old turf and on an unused, unexposed turf sample of the same production batch.
  • (18) The most reckless – or dirtiest – might even use their cleats.
  • (19) The 24-h and 1-week tensile and shear adhesive bonds to enamel were studied by luting orthodontic lingual cleats with a standard film thickness to the orientated labial surfaces of extracted incisors and pulling them to failure.
  • (20) Here, cycling specialist Phil suggests some remedies for common complaints ... Knee pain There are many potential causes of knee pain: not enough float in the pedals; poorly positioned cleats; incorrect saddle position.