rent vs rime

rent

noun
  • A tear or rip in some surface. 

  • An object for which rent is charged or paid. 

  • A division or schism. 

  • A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property. 

  • A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service. 

  • A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business. 

adj
  • That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn. 

verb
  • To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money. 

  • To occupy premises in exchange for rent. 

  • To be leased or let for rent. 

  • To grant occupation in return for rent. 

rime

noun
  • A film or slimy coating. 

  • The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset. 

  • Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface. 

  • A step of a ladder; a rung. 

  • A coating or sheet of ice so formed. 

  • Rhyme. 

  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century. 

  • A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. 

verb
  • To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost. 

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