Rime

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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":

• 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
• The 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 ecumenical movement within Tibetan Buddhism
• Rime Age, an age in the computer game realMyst

[edit] See also

• Rhyme, a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words