rime
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/ɹaɪm/
English
Definitions
noun
- Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
- A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
- A film or slimy coating.
verb
- To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
verb
- To compose or treat in verse; versify.
- (followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.“"Creation" rhymes with "integration" and "station".”
- Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.“"India" and "windier" rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.”
- To number; count; reckon.
noun
- Number.
- Rhyme.“Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century.”
- The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
noun
- A step of a ladder; a rung.
noun
- A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.