Hoarfrost vs. Rime — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Hoarfrost and Rime
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Definitions
Hoarfrost➦
A white coating of ice crystals formed by sublimation of atmospheric water vapor on a surface.Also called white frost.
Rime➦
Frost formed on cold objects by the rapid freezing of water vapour in cloud or fog.
Hoarfrost➦
Alternative form of hoar frost
Rime➦
Archaic spelling of rhyme
Hoarfrost➦
The white particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost.
He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
Rime➦
Cover (an object) with hoar frost
He does not brush away the frost that rimes his beard
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Hoarfrost➦
Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
Rime➦
Archaic spelling of rhyme
Rime➦
A white incrustation of ice formed when supercooled water droplets freeze almost instantly on contact with a solid surface.
Rime➦
A coating, as of mud or slime, likened to a frosty film
"A meal couldn't leave us feeling really full unless it laid down a rime of fat globules in our mouths and stomachs" (James Fallows).
Rime➦
Variant of rhyme.
Rime➦
To cover with or as if with frost or ice
"heavy [shoes] rimed with mud and cement ... from the building site" (Seamus Deane).
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Rime➦
(meteorology) Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
Rime➦
(meteorology) A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
Rime➦
A film or slimy coating.
Rime➦
Rhyme.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century.
Rime➦
(linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
Rime➦
A step of a ladder; a rung.
Rime➦
(obsolete) A rent or long aperture; a chink, fissure, or crack.
Rime➦
To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
Rime➦
Obsolete form of rhyme#Verb
Rime➦
A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
Rime➦
White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.
The trees were now covered with rime.
Rime➦
A step or round of a ladder; a rung.
Rime➦
Rhyme. See Rhyme.
Rime➦
To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
Rime➦
To rhyme. See Rhyme.
Rime➦
Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
Rime➦
Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
Rime➦
Be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable;
Hat and cat rhyme
Rime➦
Compose rhymes
