Rime vs. Verglas — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Rime and Verglas
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Rime
Frost formed on cold objects by the rapid freezing of water vapour in cloud or fog.
Verglas
A thin coating of ice, as on rock.
Rime
Archaic spelling of rhyme
Verglas
Silver frost
Rime
Cover (an object) with hoar frost
He does not brush away the frost that rimes his beard
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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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