(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.
Slimy
Definition:
(superl.) Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime.
Example Sentences:
(1) A slimy basket case Climate change and human globalisation assist most travelling species but many journeys are still mysterious.
(2) Only Candida albicans and the corresponding slimy coat were found on smooth areas of tube.
(3) Ifind it hard to get excited about slimy, translucent, near‑flavourless egg whites, but I can't bear to throw them away.
(4) It’s just one in a long line of cowardly and slimy moves by Ryan, who is really just Trump in a more aesthetically appealing wrapper.
(5) Both symbiotic and free-living (non-associative) nitrogen fixation analyses (by acetylene reduction) revealed that the non-slimy, small colonies were significantly more effective than slimy, large colonies.
(6) At surgery, the mass was noted not to penetrate the superficial surface of the quadriceps tendon and was full of slimy fluid.
(7) It is difficult to observe, without the option of yelling and swearing, how disingenuous this is, how slimy and mawkish for a government happy to live with the idea of people living in squalor, in fuel poverty, going hungry, suddenly to find itself unable to bear the idea of a child in a smoky car.
(8) This is a decision which will force talented young athletes to work another year for free while making huge amounts of money for everyone else at their unpaid workplace, to pass this off as somehow the "right thing to do" for the game or, even worse, is just slimy.
(9) No 'slimy' state of this fungus was observed and dimorphism was not confirmed.
(10) A slimy material, responsible for increased viscosity of these cultures, was digested by dextranase.
(11) Disease signs included acute death, inability to fly, lameness, inappetence, emaciation, polyuria, and the production of slimy, green droppings.
(12) With proteins and other polymers released from lysed bacteria, this slimy material may contribute directly to increased viscosity and foam formation.
(13) The secondary forms of the agglutinates were similar to those of Enterobacteriaceae, the typical primary form of the agglutination into slimy networks and spheres was not observed upon the restoration of agglutinability.
(14) It is a real education for people as well to see seaweed as a food and not as the slimy green, black stuff that you find stinking and rotting on the beach,” he adds.
(15) Several bacteria which appear to be different and are presumed to be different species are associated in the slimy mass of the "acid streamers."
(16) Even the briefest hint of a sniff of a rumour that the studio is going the “teen choice” route by plumping for looks over substance will see the movie sink faster than Luke’s X-wing in Yoda’s slimy Dagobah swamp, which is why rumoured candidates such as Glee’s Blake Jenner should be avoided like the Candorian plague .
(17) After Tony and his shiny head did the dirty with Tracy Barlow, the goddess of pure evil, Liz went straight into a rebound fling with Dan, a man so slimy he glistens.
(18) Buck Pal receptions are all 1970s vol-au-vents (complete with a slimy surprise lurking within), or squeezy cheese on a Ritz cracker.
(19) Snails, one of France's signature dishes, could be off the menu if the country fails to stem an invasion by a slimy worm from south-east Asia, scientists have said.
(20) They pull off an armed robbery and make it to Florida where they meet James Franco's slimy gangster, Alien, described by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the most "repulsive cinematic creations in recent memory".