rime
noun
an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
riming
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present participleof rime.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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a word form of
rime.
rimenounan opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Example Sentences
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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
I iz open in fine, finer, finish; dine, dining, and diner; rime, riming, and rimer; fi-ner, fi-nish, and so on: shut in fin, finnish; din, dinner; brim, brimmer; fin-nish, and simmilar.
From A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy by James Elphinston
In Jackaro, page 9, 3abcb indicates a quatrain riming alternately, with three stressed syllables in each line.
From A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs by Josiah Henry Combs
Sotheby had invented a modified form of the Spenserian stanza riming abbaccddc instead of abcbbdbdd and keeping the final alexandrine.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
In the sestet this is permissible, provided that there is not a riming couplet at the close.
From Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson by William Wordsworth
