Rime

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A coating of ice, as on grass and trees, formed when extremely cold water droplets freeze almost instantly on a cold surface.
  • n. A coating, as of mud or slime, likened to a frosty film: "A meal couldn't leave us feeling really full unless it laid down a rime of fat globules in our mouths and stomachs” ( James Fallows).
  • v. To cover with or as if with frost or ice: "heavy [shoes] rimed with mud and cement ... from the building site” ( Seamus Deane).
  • n. Variant of rhyme.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog onto a cold surface.
  • n. a coating or sheet of ice so formed.
  • n. a film or slimy coating.
  • n. rhyme
  • n. the 2nd part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset
  • v. Obsolete form of rhyme.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
  • n. White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.
  • verb-intransitive. To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
  • n. A step or round of a ladder; a rung.
  • n. Rhyme. See rhyme.
  • v. To rhyme. See rhyme.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Number.
  • n. Thought expressed in verse; verse; meter; poetry; also, a composition in verse; a poem, especially a short one; a tale in verse.
  • n. Agreement in the terminal sounds of two or more words, namely in the last accented vowel and the sounds following, if there be any, while the sounds preceding differ; also, by extension, such agreement in the initial sounds (initial rime, usually called alliteration). See homœote-leuton, and compare assonance.
  • n. A verse or line agreeing with another in terminal sounds: as, to string rimes together.
  • n. A word answering in sound to another word.
  • To number; count; reckon.
  • To compose in verse; treat in verse; versify.
  • To put into rime: as, to rime a story.
  • To bring into a certain condition by riming; influence by rime.
  • To compose verses; make verses.
  • To accord in the terminal sounds; more widely, to correspond in sound; assonate; harmonize; accord; chime.
  • n. White frost, or hoar-frost; congealed dew or vapor: same as frost, 3.
  • To freeze or congeal into hoar-frost.
  • Same as ream.
  • n. A Middle English or modern dialectal form of rim.
  • n. A Middle English form of rim.
  • n. A chink; a fissure; a rent or long aperture.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
  • n. correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
  • v. be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
  • v. compose rhymes
  • Verb Form
    rimed    rimes    riming   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ice    water ice   
    Variant
    rhyme   
    Form
    rimed    riming    rimy   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    chink    fissure    crack    hoarfrost    rung    berime    berhyme    fros    frost   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    alliteration    rhyme    metre