RIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rime mean? 

• RIME (noun)
  The noun RIME has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: RIME used as a noun is rare.

• RIME (verb)
  The verb RIME has 2 senses:

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

2. compose rhymes

  Familiarity information: RIME used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

frost; hoar; hoarfrost; rime

Hypernyms ("rime" is a kind of...):

ice; water ice (water frozen in the solid state)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

rhyme; rime

Hypernyms ("rime" is a kind of...):

versification (the form or metrical composition of a poem)

Domain member category:

assonant (having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rime"):

internal rhyme (a rhyme between words in the same line)

alliteration; beginning rhyme; head rhyme; initial rhyme (use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse)

assonance; vowel rhyme (the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words)

consonance; consonant rhyme (the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words)

double rhyme (a two-syllable rhyme)

eye rhyme (an imperfect rhyme (e.g., 'love' and 'move'))

Holonyms ("rime" is a part of...):

poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)

Derivation:

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

• RIME (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rime    ... he / she / it rimes   
Past simple: rimed   
Past participle: rimed   
-ing form: riming   

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

rhyme; rime

Context example:

hat and cat rhyme

Hypernyms (to "rime" is one way to...):

agree; check; correspond; fit; gibe; jibe; match; tally (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rime"):

assonate (correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Compose rhymes

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

rhyme; rime

Hypernyms (to "rime" is one way to...):

create verbally (create with or from words)

Domain category:

poesy; poetry; verse (literature in metrical form)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rime"):

tag (supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes)

alliterate (use alliteration as a form of poetry)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Their bristly fur was rimed with frost.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Their eyelashes were frosted white, as were their muzzles, and they had all the seeming of decrepit old age, what of the frost-rime and exhaustion.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)