What does rime mean?

Definitions for rime
raɪmrime

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. frost, hoar, hoarfrost, rimenoun

    ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

  2. rhyme, rimeverb

    correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)

  3. rhyme, rimeverb

    be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable

    "hat and cat rhyme"

  4. rhyme, rimeverb

    compose rhymes

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Rimenoun

    Etymology: hrim , Saxon.

    Breathing upon a glass giveth a dew; and in rime frosts you shall find drops of dew upon the inside of glass windows. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

    In a hoar frost, a rime, is a multitude of quadrangular prisms piled without any order one over another. Nehemiah Grew.

    Though birds have no epiglottis, yet can they contract the rime or chink of their larinx, so as to prevent the admission of wet or dry indigested. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

  2. To Rimeverb

    To freeze with hoar frost.

    Etymology: from the noun.

ChatGPT

  1. rime

    Rime refers to a thin layer of ice that forms when water droplets in fog freeze upon contact with an object. It can also refer to the correspondence of sounds in the ending syllables of verses, particularly in poetry, also known as 'rhyme'.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Rimenoun

    a rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack

  2. Rimenoun

    white frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor

  3. Rimeverb

    to freeze or congeal into hoarfrost

  4. Rimenoun

    a step or round of a ladder; a rung

  5. Rimenoun

    rhyme. See Rhyme

  6. Rime

    to rhyme. See Rhyme

  7. Etymology: [L. rima.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Rime

    rīm, n. hoar-frost: frozen dew.—adj. Rī′my. [A.S. hrím; Dut. rijm, Ger. reif.]

  2. Rime

    rīm, n. a rent, chink, or fissure—also Rī′ma:—pl. Rī′mæ.—adj. Rīmose′, full of rimes or chinks: having numerous minute fissures, mostly parallel, like the bark of a tree.—n. Rimos′ity, state of being rimose or chinky.—adj. Rī′mous, rimose. [L. rima.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. rime

    Hoar-frost; condensed vapour.

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  1. RIME

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. RIME

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rime is ranked #116829 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Rime surname appeared 149 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Rime.

    93.2% or 139 total occurrences were White.
    4% or 6 total occurrences were Black.

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Anagrams for rime »

  1. imer

  2. emir

  3. riem

  4. reim

  5. remi

  6. mire

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rime in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rime in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of rime in a Sentence

  1. Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU:

    Philosopher, observer, scholar of our time; Original creator accepting no blunders, Emphasizing the gala of the pen, he ponders The tomes of literary jewels for life's rime!

  2. Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU:

    “Philosopher, observer, scholar of our time; Original creator accepting no blunders, Emphasizing the gala of the pen, he ponders The tomes of literary jewels for life's rime!”

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