(n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
(n.) White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.
(v. i.) To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
(n.) A step or round of a ladder; a rung.
(n.) Rhyme. See Rhyme.
(v. i. & t.) To rhyme. See Rhyme.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is recent evidence that children naturally divide syllables into the opening consonant or consonant cluster (the onset) and the rest of the syllable (the rime).
(2) Both TRS and RIME sense transcripts are preferentially synthesized compared to anti-sense transcripts, and are much more abundant in bloodstream forms than in cultured procyclics.
(3) In Experiment 1, partial identity priming using word-final trigrams was observed only when the bigram corresponded to the orthographic rime unit.
(4) Treiman (1983) and others have argued that spoken syllables are best characterized not as linear strings of phonemes, but as hierarchically organized units consisting of an onset (initial consonant or consonant cluster) and a rime (the vowel and any following consonants) and that the rime is further divided into a peak or nucleus (the vowel) and a coda (the final consonants).
(5) Words which rhyme share a common rime and thus can be categorized on that speech unit.
(6) The results were discussed in relation to theories suggesting that syllables consist of an onset and a rime.
(7) "The sectarian element was introduced into the revolution in March 2011 by the Assad regime itself, which wants to identify it with sectarian strife," says Syrian writer and analyst Rime Allaf .
(8) Who wants to see the soil stripped from the land, the sea rimed with rubbish?
(9) Monosyllabic words were blended and learned as easily with onset-rime segmentation as with whole word units, for all children.
(10) By then, the Syrian revolutionaries had lost their innocence and the Syrian regime had lost its reticence,” wrote Rime Allaf, a pro-uprising Syrian commentator.
(11) Although there were singles that joined Ultravox's Vienna in the "unfairly denied the top slot" corner – Daft Punk's One More Time (kept off by Leann Rimes's Can't Fight the Moonlight), Pink's Get the Party Started (George Harrison's death pushing My Sweet Lord back to the top) and Kelis's Milkshake (stuck at second base for a whole month thanks to Michelle McManus's All the Time and then LMC's Take Me to the Skies Above) – it was also true that only the genuinely great have hogged the top spot this decade.
(12) Smith's film is a horror comedy starring Michael Parks, featuring the actor, in Smith's words, reciting "some Lewis Carroll and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to some poor motherfucker sewn into a realistic walrus costume".
(13) "It is a ridiculous and dangerous comment," said Rime Allaf, a Syrian analyst at the Chatham House thinktank in London.
(14) That is, can children learn more words segmented at the onset-rime boundary (e.g., CL-AP, D-ISH) than words segmented after the vowel (CLA-P, DI-SH)?
(15) In addition to the antigen gene, it contains seven putative coding regions (ESAGs, for expression site-associated genes), as well as a RIME retroposon.
(16) Here's why: Heavy metal makes kids read Romantic poetry By taking the words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and turning them into songs, Iron Maiden (with Rime of the Ancient Mariner) and Rush (Xanadu, based on Kubla Khan) have done more to draw attention to one of English literature's heroes than any number of Oxbridge academics.
(17) Grade 2 and 3 readers increasingly used larger orthographic correspondences termed rimes (e.g., -ook, -ild).
(18) These results are consistent with the view that syllables are coded in terms of an onset (initial consonant or cluster) and a rime (remainder).
(19) We asked whether this same onset-rime segmentation might also be beneficial in teaching children to read.
(20) In all three experiments, onset-rime segmentation proved more helpful than postvowel segmentation in short-term learning of the words.
Rung
Definition:
() of Ring
(p. p.) of Ring
() imp. & p. p. of Ring.
(n.) A floor timber in a ship.
(n.) One of the rounds of a ladder.
(n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
(n.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hancock is covering the same portfolios but has moved up a rung from his previous position as a parliamentary under secretary of state.
(2) In other cases local numbers were reported to state agencies but then not up the next rung, to the federal government.
(3) The National Association of Estate Agents said: "This announcement has added a new rung to the property ladder, one within reach of thousands of young families."
(4) They usually didn’t get him the best delivery times,” Runge said.
(5) In the first half of 2014, UK sales of vinyl are expected to be 1.2m, more than 50% up on the same period last year Hanging over everything Runge showed me was an awkward question.
(6) I've just rung my boss and my workplace is under water.
(7) But on the flip side you see a young boy and outstanding player in Amavi make the wrong decision at the wrong time to take someone on that late in the game, and unfortunately we came away with nothing.” Pardew had rung the changes at half-time as Palace struggled to find their rhythm and looked like a team with too many players in unfamiliar roles.
(8) "It's no good hoping people will climb the property ladder if the bottom rung is missing.
(9) are described: an analytical one, a Runge-Kutta simulation and an "asymptotic" method.
(10) The proposed law would only allow gay couples the right to adopt if they were married, not in a civil partnership – a distinction that has rung alarm bells among equality groups.
(11) The coupled equations for flow through collapsible tubes are solved using a Runge-Kutta finite difference scheme.
(12) For young people already struggling to reach the bottom rung of the housing ladder, it looks to be pulled up even further.
(13) And that was a good decision, I think.” Runge made regular trips to the plant at Orsman Road, N1, where he inspected what was on offer – not just presses, but an archive of the metallic master copies of stampers used to make thousands of different records, by artists including Simon & Garfunkel and the Manic Street Preachers, all of which could conceivably be put back into production.
(14) And helping borrowers move up the property chain can help free up homes lower down the chain for those borrowers looking to get on the first rung of the ladder."
(15) About 83.3 per cent were illiterate and belonged to the lowest rung of the socio economic scale.
(16) Edward M Kennedy, who died of brain cancer on Tuesday at the age of 77, was a man who made it his life's work to, as President Obama said in the funeral that took place in the church hours later, "give a voice to those who could not be heard", and to "add a rung to the ladder of opportunity".
(17) Study of cardiac arrhythmia may be pursued vertically, as up the rungs of a ladder, from symptom to ECG, to EPS, to local lesion, to intracellular metabolism and to alterations of the latter and their effects on charge-transfer by ions across the cell membrane.
(18) For Gabriela Salinas, commercial manager of a publishing company, the gender pay gap is particularly evident on the top rungs of the corporate world.
(19) Hoarding isn't the privilege of a few Saudi royals; it is a feature at almost every rung of the property ladder.
(20) Analysis by the Guardian of 50 of the UK's most valuable companies shows that women account for only 14% of staff serving on executive committees – the management level just one rung below the boardroom and which are viewed as the pipeline of talent to fill future board vacancies.