rime

See also: rimé and ríme

rime - English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) enPR: rīm, IPA: /ɹaɪm/
  • Homophone: rhyme

Noun

rime (countable and uncountable, plural rimes)

  1. (meteorology) Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
  2. (meteorology) A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
  3. A film or slimy coating.

Usage notes

Rime (sense 1) technically differs from hoar frost, as the latter is formed by water vapour which has undergone deposition or desublimation (transformation directly into ice crystals without first turning into liquid water).

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed)

  1. To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

Alternative forms

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

  1. (archaic except in direct borrowings from French) Rhyme.
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century.
  2. (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.

Translations

  • French: rime (fr) f
  • German: Silbenreim m
  • Hungarian: rím (hu)
  • Italian: rima (it) f
  • Yoruba: odo

Verb

rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed)

  1. Obsolete form of rhyme.

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

  1. A step of a ladder; a rung.

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

  1. (obsolete) A rent or long aperture; a chink, fissure, or crack.

Anagrams

rime - Danish

Verb

rime (imperative rim, infinitive at rime, present tense rimer, past tense rimede, perfect tense rimet)

  1. to rhyme

rime - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ʁim/

Noun

rime f (plural rimes)

  1. rhyme

Derived terms

Verb

rime

  1. inflection of rimer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

rime - Italian

Noun

rime f

  1. plural of rima

Anagrams

rime - Middle Dutch

Noun

rime m or f

  1. line of poetry, verse
  2. rhyme

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

rime - Middle English

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

  1. number
    • Þatt full wel iss bitacnedd Þurrh tale & rime off fowwerrtiȝ, Off fowwerr siþe tene. Ormulum, c1200
    • (That full well is betokened thru tale and the number of forty, of four times ten.)

Descendants

rime - Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /riː.me/, [ˈɾiː.mə]

Verb

rime (imperative rim, present tense rimer, simple past rimte or rimet or rima, past participle rimt or rima)

  1. to rhyme
  2. to match, line up
    • Informasjonen han ga rimte ikke med det vi allerede viste.
      • The information he gave us didn't match with what we already knew.

Verb

rime (imperative rim, present tense rimer, simple past rimet or rima, past participle rimt or rima)

  1. to rime

rime - Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /riː.me/, [ˈɾiː.mə]

Alternative forms

Verb

rime (imperative rim, present tense rimar, simple past rima, past participle rima)

  1. to rhyme
  2. to match, line up

Verb

rime (imperative rim, present tense rimar, simple past rima, past participle rima)

  1. to rime

Noun

rime

  1. an elongated row of hills or low mountains

Synonyms

  • høgdedrag (Bokmål also)
  • jordrygg (Bokmål also)
  • rinde

rime - Old French

Noun

rime f (oblique plural rimes, nominative singular rime, nominative plural rimes)

  1. story; tale; account

Synonyms

Descendants

rime - Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁĩ.mi/ [ˈhĩ.mi]
  • (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁi.m(ɨ)/

Verb

rime

  1. inflection of rimar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

rime - Spanish

Verb

rime

  1. inflection of rimar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
Meaning and Definition of rime
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