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Rime

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Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A white frost formed when supercooled fog droplets freeze on surfaces; in poetry, it depicts winter beauty, sharp cold, and the crystalline fragility of a frozen landscape.

Detailed Definition
Rime is a feathery white coating of ice that forms when tiny droplets of freezing fog strike and cling to cold surfaces. It gathers on branches, fences, wires, and stones, giving the landscape a delicate but severe beauty. In poetry, rime can evoke stillness, fragility, age, or enchantment. Unlike ordinary frost, it often appears sculptural, making familiar objects seem briefly transformed into pale, intricate works of winter art.
Example
Example in poetry:
Rime feathered the bare branches with delicate white crystals; Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” uses rime in its title, linking frost with a bleak maritime world; A poet may use rime to make winter appear beautiful but severe; By dawn, rime had sealed the gate’s iron curls in a glassy script
Additional Notes
Rime is feathery white frost formed by freezing fog droplets. Unlike ordinary frost, it often coats windward branches and wires.
Other Meanings of “Rime”
Also Known As
Rime Ice Hoarfrost
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