Frost vs. Rime — What's the Difference?

Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor in an above-freezing atmosphere coming in contact with a solid surface whose temperature is below freezing, and resulting in a phase change from water vapor (a gas) to ice (a solid) as the water vapor reaches the freezing point. In temperate climates, it most commonly appears on surfaces near the ground as fragile white crystals; in cold climates, it occurs in a greater variety of forms.

Frost formed on cold objects by the rapid freezing of water vapour in cloud or fog.

A deposit of small white ice crystals formed on the ground or other surfaces when the temperature falls below freezing

Archaic spelling of rhyme

Cover (something) with or as if with frost; freeze

Cover (an object) with hoar frost

Decorate (a cake or biscuit) with icing

Archaic spelling of rhyme

A deposit of minute ice crystals formed when water vapor condenses at a temperature below freezing.

A white incrustation of ice formed when supercooled water droplets freeze almost instantly on contact with a solid surface.

A period of weather when such deposits form.

A coating, as of mud or slime, likened to a frosty film

A cold manner or period of disaffection

Variant of rhyme.

To cover with frost.

To cover with or as if with frost or ice

To damage or kill by frost.

(meteorology) Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.

To cover (glass, for example) with a roughened or speckled decorative surface.

(meteorology) A coating or sheet of ice so formed.

To cover or decorate with icing

A film or slimy coating.

To bleach or lighten the color of (hair) with dye so that some but not all strands are changed in color.

Rhyme.

(Slang) To anger or upset

(linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.

To become covered with frost

A step of a ladder; a rung.

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.

(obsolete) A rent or long aperture; a chink, fissure, or crack.

The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.

To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

(figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.

Obsolete form of rhyme#Verb

(obsolete) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.

A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

A shade of white, like that of frost.

White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.

A disappointment; a cheat.

A step or round of a ladder; a rung.

(television) A kind of light diffuser.

Rhyme. See Rhyme.

(transitive) To cover with frost.

To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

(intransitive) To become covered with frost.

To rhyme. See Rhyme.

(transitive) To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.

Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

To anger or annoy.

Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)

(transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.

Be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable;

(transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.

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The act of freezing; - applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.

Frozen dew; - called also hoarfrost or white frost.

Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.

To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.

To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass; as, glass may be frosted by exposure to hydrofluoric acid.

To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.

Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

Weather cold enough to cause freezing

The formation of frost or ice on a surface

United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)

Decorate with frosting;

Provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance;

Cover with frost;

Damage by frost;