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Rimed snow

 
(rīm)

(hydrology) A white or milky and opaque granular deposit of ice formed by the rapid freezing of supercooled water drops as they impinge upon an exposed object; composed essentially of discrete ice granules, and has densities as low as 0.2-0.3 gram per cubic centimeter.


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n.

Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguished from prose, mostly dull. Usually (and wickedly) spelled "rhyme."


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IN BRIEF: A white coating of tiny ice crystals on a cold surface.

pronunciation Did you notice the rime on the fence this morning?

Wikipedia: Rimed snow
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Snowflakes that are partially or completely coated in tiny frozen water droplets called rime. Rime forms on a snowflake when it passes through a super-cooled cloud. This is one of the four classes of snowflakes.

There has been research into the effect of rimed snow on avalanches.

It has found that rimed snow provides greater initial stability for a snow layer. However, it also allows thicker, and therefore less stable, snow layers to build up before releasing some. It could be argued that these cancel each other out.

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - rim, rimfrost
v. tr. - dække med rim

2.
n. - rim
v. tr. - rime på
v. intr. - rime

Nederlands (Dutch)
sneeuw, ijzel

Français (French)
1.
n. - givre (littér)
v. tr. - couvrir de givre

2.
n. - rime
v. tr. - mettre en vers, composer des vers, rimer
v. intr. - rimer, faire des rimes, composer des vers, rimer en composant des vers

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Rauhreif
v. - mit Rauhreif bedecken

2.
n. - Reim
v. - reimen, in Reime Bringen
v. - Verse machen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ομοιοκαταληξία, ρίμα
v. - καλύπτω με πάχνη, παχνίζω, ομοιοκαταληκτώ, κάνω ρίμα

Italiano (Italian)
brina, ricoprire di brina

Português (Portuguese)
n. - geada (f)
v. - cobrir de geada

Русский (Russian)
иней, покрываться инеем, рифма

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - escarcha
v. tr. - escarchar, cubrir de escarcha

2.
n. - rima
v. tr. - rimar
v. intr. - consonar, versificar, armonizar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - rimfrost
v. - täcka med rimfrost

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 霜, 雾淞, 蒙霜

2. 韵, 韵脚, 韵词

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 韻, 韻腳, 韻詞

2.
n. - 霜, 霧淞
v. tr. - 蒙霜

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 무빙, 서리, 단단한 표면
v. tr. - 서리로 덮다

2.
n. - 운, 동운어, 압운시
v. tr. - 시로 짓다, 운을 달게 하다
v. intr. - 운을 달다, 운이 맞다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 霜, 韻, 同韻語, 霧氷

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الصقيع, قشرة (فعل) يكسو بصقيع أو بقشرة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כפור הנוצר על עצמים קרים ע"י הקפיאה המהירה של אדי מים בענן או ערפל‬
v. tr. - ‮ציפה בכפור, קפא לכפור‬
n. - ‮איות נוסף של EMYHR (חרוז)‬
v. tr. - ‮חרז חרוזים, השתמש (במילה או מלים) לחריזה‬
v. intr. - ‮יצר חרוז, כתב חרוזים או שירה, השתמש בחרוזים בכתיבת שירה‬


 
 

 

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