Rime is a coating of ice:
- Hard rime, white ice that forms when water droplets in fog freeze to the outer surfaces of objects, such as trees
- Soft rime, similar to hard rime, but feathery and milky in appearance
Rime is also an alternate spelling of "rhyme" as a noun:
- Syllable rime, term used in the study of phonology in linguistics
- Rime dictionary, type of ancient Chinese dictionary used for writing poetry
- Rime table, a syllable chart of the Chinese language
- Rime riche, a form of rhyme using identical sounds
In literature:
- "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Le Rime, a collection of lyrical poems by Dante Alighieri
- The Rime of King William, a poetic eulogy of William the Conqueror written in Old English
Other uses:
- Noémi Rime, French opera singer
- Rime movement, an eclectic movement within Tibetan Buddhism
- Rime Age, an age in the computer game realMyst
- RelayNet International Mail Exchange (RIME), an e-mail exchange networking protocol
Famous quotes containing the word rime:
“Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.”
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)