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单词 rhyme
释义 rhyme
I. noun
or rime \ˈrīm\
(-s)
Etymology: rhyme alteration (influenced by Latin rhythmus rhythm) of rime; rime from Middle English rime, ryme, from Old French rime, probably modification (influenced by Old High German rīm number, series) of Latin rhythmus rhythm — more at rite, rhythm
1.
 a. : correspondence in terminal sounds of two or more words, lines of verse, or other units of composition or utterance: as
  (1) also rhyme proper : correspondence of the last accented vowels and all succeeding sounds in two lines or units especially (as in English verse) when the sounds preceding the last accented vowel are different in the two rhyming units
  (2) : assonance 2 b
  (3) : consonance 2 d
 b. : one of two or more words thus corresponding in sound
  < fall, appall, haul, and awl are approved rhymes >
  < there were no more rhymes for sky — Lord Dunsany >
 c. : correspondence of other than terminal word sounds: as
  (1) : beginning rhyme
  (2) : alliteration
  (3) : internal rhyme
 d. : rhyme scheme
2.
 a.
  (1) : rhyming verse
   < some love of yours has writ to you in rhyme — Shakespeare >
  (2) : poetry
   < there is no such thing as a dialect for rhyme, or a language for verse — John Ruskin >
   < in the style of folk rhyme — H.W.Wells >
   < writers of pleasant rhymesAustralasian >
 b. : a composition in verse that rhymes
  < my passionate rhyme — W.B.Yeats >
  < gave us an extraordinary English doggerel rhyme — J.M.Synge >
3. : rhythm, measure
 < gay broad leaves shone and swung in rhyme — John Galsworthy >
II. verb
or rime \“\
(rhymed or rimed ; rhymed or rimed ; rhyming or riming ; rhymes or rimes)
Etymology: rhyme alteration (influenced by rhyme) (I) of rime; rime from Middle English rimen, rymen, from Old French rimer, from rime rhyme
intransitive verb
1. : to make rhymes : compose rhyming verse
 < talked nothing but blank verse for the rest of the afternoon, except once or twice when she rhymed — J.B.S.Haldane >
 < how vilely doth this cynic rhyme — Shakespeare >
2.
 a. of a word or verse : to end in syllables that rhyme : form a rhyme
  < the middle line of each terzina, or triplet, rhymes with the first and third lines of the next — J.A.Macy >
 b. of a word or syllable : to be a rhyme
  < since stressed can rhyme with unstressed syllables the number of possible full rhymes in English is greatly extended — G.S.Fraser >
  < cover rhymes with lover >
3. : to be in accord : harmonize
 < the sun, the banners, the rose leaves, the young children … rhyme with the new joy and innocence to be achieved — George Santayana >
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to relate or praise in rhyming verse
  < rhymes the struggles of the first settlers — Katharine L. Bates >
 b. : to put into rhyme
  < if I could have the wish I rhyme — H.A.Blood >
 c. : to compose (verse) in rhyme
  < I rhymed out poetry in my youth — Donagh MacDonagh >
 d. : to cause to rhyme : use as rhyme
  < sleight is rhymed with counterfeit as well as heightNotes & Queries >
2. : to drive or bring to a particular state or condition by rhyming or a rhyme
 < pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme your friends to death before their time — A.E.Housman >
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