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rhyme

also rime  (rīm)
n.
1. Correspondence of sounds at the ends of words or phrases, especially when involving the last stressed vowel and all succeeding sounds in each of two or more such words or phrases.
2. A word that exhibits such correspondence with another, as behold and cold.
3.
a. A poem or verse employing such correspondence as a formal feature, especially at the ends of lines.
b. Poetry or verse of this kind.
v. rhymed, rhym·ing, rhymes also rimed or rim·ing or rimes
v.intr.
1. To form a rhyme.
2. To compose rhymes or verse.
3. To make use of rhymes in composing verse.
v.tr.
1. To put into rhyme or compose with rhymes.
2. To use (a word or words) as a rhyme.

[Alteration (influenced by rhythm) of Middle English rime, from Old French, of Germanic origin; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]
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rhyming

(ˈraɪmɪŋ)
adj
(Poetry) with identical final sounds
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Adj.1.rhyming - having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds; "rhymed verse"; "rhyming words"
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Translations

rhyming

[ˈraɪmɪŋ]
A. ADJ [couplet, verse] → rimado
B. CPD rhyming slang Nargot m basado en rimas (p.ej, "apples and pears" = "stairs")
RHYMING SLANG
El rhyming slang (jerga rimada) es un tipo muy peculiar de jerga que usan los habitantes de un barrio en el este de Londres, los (cockneys), en la que una palabra o frase determinada se sustituye por otra que rima con ella; por ejemplo, dicen apples and pears en vez de stairs. Puede resultar muy confuso para las personas que no lo conocen bien, sobre todo porque, además, muchas veces se establece un doble juego de palabras en el que la palabra que rima no se dice; por ejemplo, butcher's hook quiere decir look, pero a menudo sólo se dice butcher's, como en la frase let's have a butcher's. El uso de algunas de estas expresiones se ha extendido al inglés coloquial habitual, como use your loaf, donde loaf, que viene de loaf of bread, quiere decir head.
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rhyming

adj rhyming coupletsReimpaare pl; rhyming dictionaryReimwörterbuch nt
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rhyming

[ˈraɪmɪŋ] adjrimato/a, in rima
rhyming couplet → rima baciata
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