rime
Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on…Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
» The windshield was covered in rime.
Meaning
8 senses(countable, uncountable)Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
Raureif
и́нейínej, и́зморозьízmorozʹ
і́нійínij, на́морозьnámorozʹ, па́морозьpámorozʹ
ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)A film or slimy coating.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)White hair as an indication of old age.
сединаsedina
(countable, uncountable)Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
(countable, uncountable)A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
(UK, countable, regional, uncountable)A cold fog or mist.
(countable, uncountable)The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on (as opposed to the onset).
(obsolete, transitive)A narrow aperture or opening; a chink, a crack, a fissure; a rent, a rip.
Examples
5 sentencesThe windshield was covered in rime.
The part of a syllable after the onset is called the rime.
deDer Teil einer Silbe nach dem Anlaut heißt „Reim“. — Yorwba
The nucleus and optional coda of a syllable are called the rime.
The rime consists of the vowel and any final consonants of a syllable.
Rime was originally supposed to be an exclusive for the PS4, but now it's multi-platform.
Translations
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Origin
The noun is derived from Middle English rim, rime, rym, ryme (“hoar frost; rime”), from OlThe noun is derived from Middle English rim, rime, rym, ryme (“hoar frost; rime”), from Old English hrīm (“frost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrīm (“rime; hoar frost”), from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą (North Germanic), *hrīmaz, *hrīmô (“rime; hoar frost”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to graze, touch; to streak”).
A variant of rhyme (noun and verb), from Middle English rim, rime, ryme (“identical sound in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; measure, meter, rhythm; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”, noun), and Middle English rimen, rymen, rim, rime (“to recite or write verse; to sing songs; to tell a story in verse; to fit into verse; (figurative) to agree, make sense”, verb): see further at rhyme.
The noun is derived from Late Middle English rim (“cleft, crack, fissure”), from Latin rīma (“chink, cleft, crack, fissure”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)reyH- (“to cut; to tear”). Doublet of rima.
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Forms
plural: rimesSynonyms
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4 related wordsLessons for this word
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