单词 | rhyme |
释义 | rhyme —rhymer, n. /ruym/, n. , v. , rhymed, rhyming. n. 1. identity in sound of some part, esp. the end, of words or lines of verse. 2. a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind. 3. verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines. 4. a poem or piece of verse having such correspondence. 5. verse (def. 4). 6. rhyme or reason, logic, sense, or plan: There was no rhyme or reason for what they did. v.t. 7. to treat in rhyme, as a subject; turn into rhyme, as something in prose. 8. to compose (verse or the like) in metrical form with rhymes. 9. to use (a word) as a rhyme to another word; use (words) as rhymes. v.i. 10. to make rhyme or verse; versify. 11. to use rhyme in writing verse. 12. to form a rhyme, as one word or line with another: a word that rhymes with orange. 13. to be composed in metrical form with rhymes, as verse: poetry that rhymes. Also, rime. [1250-1300; ME rime < OF, deriv. of rimer to rhyme < Gallo-Romance *rimare to put in a row << OHG rim series, row; prob. not connected with L rhythmus rhythm, although current sp. (from c1600) appar. by assoc. with this word] |
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