释义 |
rhyme or (archaic) rime /rīm/ noun- In two or more words, identity of sound from the last stressed vowel to the end, the consonant or consonant group preceding not being the same in both or all cases
- Extended to other correspondences in sound, such as head-rhyme or alliteration, to inexact correspondences, such as eye-rhyme, and to variations such as French, rich rhyme, or rime riche (where the consonants immediately preceding the stressed vowel are alike), and identical rhyme (where like-sounding words of different meaning are used)
- A word or group of words agreeing in this way with another
- Versification, verses, a poem or a short piece of verse, in which this correspondence occurs at the ends of lines (or within the lines, in internal rhyme)
- A jingle
intransitive verb- To be in rhyme
- To correspond in sound
- To make or find a rhyme or rhymes
- To harmonize
- To chime
- To make rhymes or verses
transitive verb- To put into rhyme
- To compose in rhyme
- To use or treat as a rhyme
ORIGIN: OFr rime, from L rhythmus, from Gr rhythmos; see rhythm1; associated and confused with OE rīm number rhymed or (archaic) rimed /rīmd/ adjective In rhyme rhymeˈless adjective rhyˈmer or (archaic) riˈmer noun - A user of rhyme
- A poet
- An inferior poet
- A minstrel
rhymeˈster noun - A poetaster
- A would-be poet
rhymˈist noun A versifier rhyme letter noun The alliterating letter rhyme royal noun (appar a commendatory name) a seven-line stanza borrowed by Chaucer from the French, its lines rhyming in the pattern ababbcc rhyme scheme noun The pattern of rhymes in a stanza, etc rhyme word noun A word used as a rhyme rhyming slang noun A form of slang in which a word is replaced by another word, or part or all of a phrase, which rhymes with it identical rhyme and rich rhyme see n above. rhyme or reason Reasonable or sensible purpose or explanation rhyme to death - To kill by incantations (as rats were supposed to be killed in Ireland)
- To pester with rhymes
rime1 /rīm/ noun- Hoarfrost or frozen dew
- Ice deposited by freezing of supercooled fog (meteorology)
transitive verb To cover with rime ORIGIN: OE hrīm; Du rijm, Ger Reif rīˈmy adjective |