Rime vs Rhime - What's the difference?
rime | rhime |
(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 nouns the difference between rime and rhime
is that rime is ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog onto a cold surface while rhime is obsolete form of lang=en.As a verb rime
is to freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.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
