Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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.
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.
Wiktionary
- n. meteorology, uncountable ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog onto a cold surface.
- n. meteorology, uncountable a coating or sheet of ice so formed.
- n. uncountable a film or slimy coating.
- n. rhyme
- n. linguistics the 2nd part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset
- v. Obsolete form of rhyme.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
- n. White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.
- v. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- 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
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English rīm. Influenced in meaning by Old French rime from the same Germanic source. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English rim, from Old English hrīm. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Because we vse the word rime (though by maner of abusion) yet to helpe that fault againe we apply it in our vulgar Poesie another way very commendably & curiously.”
“Salamander (1879) in terza rime is especially memorable.”
“Early clues tonight to why it happened -- the cockpit voice recorder picking up mention of ice, conditions last night diabolically -- diabolically perfect for coating aircraft in what is called rime ice.”
“There's clear ice, there's a granulated form, which is called rime icing.”
“Conditions last night diabolically perfect for coating aircraft which is called rime ice.”
“A Delta crew landing around the same time as the Colgan flight reported what is called rime icing.”
“But what can be the most dangerous sort of ice is called rime ice, which is not ice like you shovel, it's just these tiny little patterns of ice which can develop on a wing.”
“It is an allegory written, with the exception of a few heroic couplets, in the seven-line stanza known as rime royal, and consists of nearly six thousand lines in forty-five divisions or chapters.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
“Yet the rime, which is as evident as the recurring strokes of a tack-hammer in Pope, is scarcely heard at all in _My Last Duchess_.”
“The pilot was told to maintain an altitude of 10,000 feet as he headed southwest over northern New Jersey as a controller warned him about the conditions in the clouds above - specifically accumulations of ice particles known as rime.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rime’.
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Pet Rocks and Carbon Footprints
Soil samples for stone soup.
palynology, stratigraphy, tse'bit'ai, tse bitai, tse bit ai, bitai, minette, maar, lithosphere, peridotite, gneiss, gabbro and 115 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Pterodactyl's Game of Postal Abbrevia...
Here's a fun little word game that might appeal to my fellow Wordies. The object of this game is to create the longest possible word, using only the official two-letter abbreviations of U.S. states...
deny, lame, mope, demand, camp, cask, hind, decamp, canvas, scalar, mental, pronks and 75 more...
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cotton
Cotton is a blended word with rich flavor. One meaning root is from the semitic root qtn that means to 'become thin or fine'; and the other meaning is from Welsh cytun or cytun that means to ' agr...
cotton, hosanna, Seneca, crab, hock, bow, bark, carousal, limber, rash, beguine, kennel and 26 more...
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Cloudy
with a chance of mizzle
puff, nebulous, fog, overcast, becloud, bedim, taint, befog, dapple, mottle, sully, pother and 83 more...
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Stalking Darkness
Words and phrases from Lynn Flewelling's book, Stalking Darkness.
inquest, halyard, catamount, occlude, founder, more, grouse, grapple, water butt, antepenultimate, palimpsest, hob and 196 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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exlotuseater's Words
autocthonous, anacoluthon, benthic, bactrian, caryatid, chiastic, dryad, dromedary, effulgent, elixir, fricative, fungible and 145 more...
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Illuminated Manuscript
words for the bespoke
midheaven, moth-fly, yea-forsooth, ontil, coxcomb, vulnerary, landhelgisgæslan, beasthood, deviltry, triolet, diablerie, titil and 107 more...
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wickedwitch's list
lll
alit, plinth, eclat, diaphanous, portico, nival, daedal, apse, fossa, pellet, avail, midge and 143 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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schinders's Words
persiflage, preterition, quidnunc, finick, termagant, otiose, magniloquent, weltschmerz, schadenfreude, piehole, malevolent, susurrus and 132 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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caspermilktoast's Words
frenetic, farrago, fandango, ensemble, assay, emulsion, taut, winnow, ridonkulous, ginormous, frisson, idee fixe and 181 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir One of the 2 arms of a lave net that was used for catching salmon moving with the outgoing tide. See comments and The Countryman citation for putcher, kype, and lave net. Aug 31, 2010
bilby Scots - frost, ice crystals. Dec 5, 2007
oroboros Emir in reverse. Jul 22, 2007