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Raiming vs Riming - What's the difference?

raiming | riming |

As verbs the difference between raiming and riming

is that raiming is present participle of lang=en while riming is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective riming is

that rimes (i.e., covers with rime or hoar frost) something.

As a noun riming is

the action or process of dying red-brown by steeping in water with alder twigs.

raiming

English

Verb

(head)

    • riming

    English

    Etymology 1

    Regular conjugation ().

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    First attested in 1822; formed as (suffix forming present participial adjectives).

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (rare) That (i.e. , covers with rime or hoar frost) something.

    • References

    “ riming, adj.'']” listed in the ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary] (third edition, June 2010)

    Etymology 3

    First attested in 1873; formed as (suffix forming abstract nouns of action).

    Noun

    (-)
  • in (l) with (l) twigs.

    • References

    “ riming, n.''¹” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary (third edition, June 2010)

    Etymology 4

    First attested in 1948; formed as (suffix forming abstract nouns of action).

    Noun

    (-)
  • The process of riming (i.e. , covering with rime or hoar frost).

    • References

    “ riming, n.''²” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary (third edition, June 2010)