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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rime has 2 senses
- rime(n = noun.substance) frost, hoar, hoarfrost - ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside); Array is a kind of ice, water ice
- rime(n = noun.communication) rhyme - correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds); Array is a part of poem, verse form
is a kind of versification
has particulars: internal rhyme, alliteration, beginning rhyme, head rhyme, initial rhyme, assonance, vowel rhyme, consonance, consonant rhyme, double rhyme, eye rhyme
Derived form verb rime1
Verb rime has 2 senses
- rime(v = verb.stative) rhyme - be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme" is one way to agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally
- rime(v = verb.creation) rhyme - compose rhymes; Array is one way to create verbally
Derived form noun rime2
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
CIDE DICTIONARY
rime, n. [L. rima.].
A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
rime, n. [AS. hrīm; akin to D. rijm, Icel. hrīm, Dan. rim, Sw. rim; cf. D. rijp, G. reif, OHG. rīfo, hrīfo.].
White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. [1913 Webster]
"The trees were now covered with rime."
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rime, v. i.
To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost. [1913 Webster]
rime, n. [Etymol. uncertain.].
A step or round of a ladder; a rung. [1913 Webster]
rime, n.
Rhyme. See Rhyme. Coleridge. Landor. [1913 Webster]
" This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use again."
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rime, v. i. & t.
To rhyme. See Rhyme. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rime, n. & v.
--n.
1 frost, esp. formed from cloud or fog.
2 poet. hoar-frost.
--v.tr. cover with rime.
--n.
1 frost, esp. formed from cloud or fog.
2 poet. hoar-frost.
--v.tr. cover with rime.
rime, archaic var. of RHYME.
DEVIL DICTIONARY
rime
n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguished from prose, mostly dull. Usually (and wickedly) spelled "rhyme."THESAURUS
rime
Jack Frost, abysm, abyss, arroyo, black frost, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, crust, cut, cwm, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, encrust, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, frost, frost line, frost smoke, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hoar, hoarfrost, hole, incision, joint, killing frost, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, ravine, rent, rift, rime frost, rupture, scissure, seam, sharp frost, slit, slot, split, trench, valley, void, wadi, white frostROGET THESAURUS
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Interval
N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.Cold
N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.
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