Rife vs Rime - What's the difference?
rife | rime |
Widespread, common (especially of unpleasant or harmful things).
* Arbuthnot
* Milton
* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 170:
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic climbs highest to sink Benfica'' (in ''The Guardian , 15 May 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/may/15/benfica-chelsea-europa-league]
Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful.
(obsolete) Having power; active; nimble.
* J. Webster
Plentifully, abundantly.
(meteorology, uncountable) ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog onto a cold surface.
* De Quincey
(meteorology, uncountable) a coating or sheet of ice so formed.
(uncountable) a film or slimy coating.
To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
(obsolete, or, dialectal) Number.
rhyme
(linguistics) the second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset
As a proper noun rife
is (region in northern morocco).As a noun rime is
.rife
English
Adjective
(er)- Smallpox was rife after the siege had been lifted.
- Before the plague of London, inflammations of the lungs were rife and mortal.
- The tumult of loud mirth was rife .
- The 'denominational considerations' mentioned below relate, of course, to anti-Semitic feeling, which was already rife in Vienna during the last years of the nineteenth century.
- They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.
- These woodlands are rife with red deer.
- What! I am rife a little yet.
Adverb
(en adverb)- The snowdrops grow rife on the slopes of Mount Pembroke.
Anagrams
* ----rime
English
(wikipedia rime)Etymology 1
From (etyl) rim, from Old English .Noun
(-)- The trees were now covered with rime .
Synonyms
* (a deposition of ice) hoarfrost, frostDerived terms
* rimyVerb
(rim)Etymology 2
(etyl) rime, from (etyl) . Influenced in meaning by (etyl) rime from the same Germanic source.Alternative forms
* rhymeNoun
(en noun)- (Coleridge)
- (Landor)
Usage notes
In reading education, "rime" refers to the vowel and the letters that come after the vowels in a syllable. For example, sit, spit, and split all have the same rime (-it). Words that rhyme often share the same rime, such as rock and sock (-ock). However, words that rhyme do not always share the same rime, such as claim and fame (-aim and -ame). Additionally, words that share the same rime do not always rhyme, such as tough and though (-ough). Rhyme and rime are not interchangeable, although they often overlap.Verb
(rim)Etymology 3
Uncertain.Etymology 4
(etyl) (lena) rima.External links
*SIL Glossary of Linguistic Terms