rijm — meaning in English
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English meaning
- frost noun A thin layer of ice crystals that forms on surfaces exposed to freezing air.
- rhyme noun A similarity of sound between the endings of words, especially at the ends of lines of verse.
- rime noun Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
Senses
rijm is used for these senses in English:
- frost A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
- hoar frost (specifically, meteorology) Water vapour which has undergone deposition or desublimation when the air is cold and moist to form a white deposit on exposed surfaces.
- rhyme A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
- rhyme (countable, in particular) A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
- rhyme (uncountable) Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
- rime Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
frost — full definition
- noun A thin layer of ice crystals that forms on surfaces exposed to freezing air.
- noun Freezing weather cold enough to produce this layer of ice.
- verb To cover a cake or other baked good with icing.
- verb To become covered with a thin layer of ice.
rhyme — full definition
- noun A similarity of sound between the endings of words, especially at the ends of lines of verse.
- noun A short poem or verse, especially one with rhyming lines.
- verb Of a word, to end with the same sound as another word.
- verb To write in verse, using words that match in sound.