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Hoarfrost vs. Rime — What's the Difference?

Hoarfrost vs. Rime — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Hoarfrost and Rime

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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.
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Rime

Cover (an object) with hoar frost
He does not brush away the frost that rimes his beard

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).

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

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