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rime

[rahym] / raɪm /
NOUN
frost
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At the rime, Qantas said it had agreed to pay the fine and that the ruling holds it accountable for actions that caused "real harm" to its employees.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

Crisp, opaque rime — now doesn’t that roll trippingly off the tongue?

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022

Standing around amid the fumaroles, bison are sheeted with a hundred pounds of rime and icicles.

From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2019

We used to call these “family words” when I was a kid: rat, bat, cat, mat, etc., all have the “-at” rime with different consonant onsets.

From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2018

There had been a rime, Theresa remembered, when Helen had held the paper gingerly, to avoid getting her hands full of news-print.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

If the riming is particularly intense, the rimed snow crystal can grow to an appreciable size, but remain less than 0.2 inches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2023

On the beach the sand was frozen in crusts and rimed with frost.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2021

Pine needles grow their own ice needles, turning into rimed maces.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2019

The shorelines were rimed with wind-driven spume that looked like ice and snow.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had seen photos of ships rimed with ice as they went through the polar night on their way to the far side of the world.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

If the riming is particularly intense, the rimed snow crystal can grow to an appreciable size, but remain less than 0.2 inches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2023

The characteristic feature of this stanza is the presence of two short lines riming together and serving as "tails" to the first and second parts of the body of the stanza.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden

"It is not riming and versing that maketh a poet, no more then a long gowne maketh an advocate: who though he pleaded in armor should be an advocate and no soldiour."

From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by J. J. Jusserand

Not for him the sweet felicities of the mincing phraser or the dreamy languors of the riming troubadour.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel

Full rime, or end-rime, involves the principally stressed vowel in the riming word, and all that follows that vowel.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden

We've our business to attend Day's duties, bend back the bow in dreams as we may till the end rimes in the taut string with the sending.

From Time Magazine Archive

"His armor is bronze, thousands and thousands of years old, engraved with magic rimes that ward him against harm," she whis-pered to Jeyne.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

That huge horn with its bands of old gold, incised with ancient rimes ... had Mance Rayder lied to him, or was Tormund lying now?

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

For half a heartbeat the rimes graven on the gold bands seemed to shimmer in the air.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

He did not indulge in the pedantry of rimes difficiles, by which Racine attracted his hearers, nor was his verse so uniformly smooth as that of his younger rival.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury


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