rhyme

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rhyme1 /raɪm/ ●○○ noun  1  [countable]ALSSC a short poem or song, especially for children, using words that rhyme 押韵短诗；〔押韵的〕儿歌，童谣 a collection of traditional rhymes with illustrations 带插图的经典童谣集 → nursery rhyme2  [countable]AL a word that rhymes with another word 押韵词，同韵词rhyme for Can you think of a rhyme for ‘bicycle’? 你能想出一个和bicycle同韵的词吗？3  [uncountable]AL words or lines of poetry that rhyme 押韵 I love his use of rhyme and rhythm. 我喜欢他对韵律和节奏的运用。in rhyme The whole story is written in rhyme. 整个故事都是用韵文写的。4  no rhyme or reason REASON#no sensible reason or organization 无缘无故，毫无道理 There seems to be no rhyme or reason for the school’s behaviour. 学校的行为似乎莫名其妙。

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rhyme• Anyway, in each ditty the name of the country was used to finish a rhyme.• Ich liebe dich: a late-night, cigarette-voiced whisper, with that happy rhyme of subject and object.• Encouraging literature, he organized poetry contests in which candidates improvised rhymes in response to his own verses.• There seemed to be no rhyme or reason to the colors.• They listen to stories, memorize nursery rhymes, look at picture books and gain other experiences that prepare them to read.• He was, incidentally, the only applicant who hadn't named the drink St Clements, from the nursery rhyme.• The poem has three sections corresponding to the changes of rhyme, but with a peculiarity in the middle section.• Thus ran the old rhyme, extolling the produce of the Bunnhouse, situated between Union and Westbourne Streets.rhyme for• I can't find a rhyme for "orange."

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rhyme2 ●○○ verb  1  [intransitive]AL if two words or lines of poetry rhyme, they end with the same sound, including a vowel 〔词或诗行〕押韵，成韵rhyme with ‘Hat’ rhymes with ‘cat’. hat和cat押韵。 The song has rhyming couplets (=pairs of lines that end in words that rhyme). 这首歌有同韵的对句。n GRAMMAR: Using the progressive• Rhyme is not used in the progressive. You say: ‘Fruit’ rhymes with ‘toot’. ✗Don’t say: ‘Fruit’ is rhyming with ‘toot’.• However, the participle rhyming is used as an adjective: Underline the rhyming words.2  [transitive]AL to put two or more words together to make them rhyme 用…押韵，使成韵rhyme something with something You can’t rhyme ‘box’ with ‘backs’. box和backs不押韵。→ See Verb table

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rhyme• Anne: In cockney rhyming slang what is tomfoolery?• These lines are short and do not rhyme.• Veteran readers of Ireland's Saturday Night can still rhyme off the contributors who used to grace its pages.• Consistently, Owen rhymes the last two words in the fifth and seventh lines of each stanza, which is very effective.rhyming couplets• He corresponds frequently in rhyming couplets.• They were farcically satirical potted biographies in sets of two rhyming couplets.• The first, George Joye, embarrassed him by publishing crude rhyming couplets about Wolsey which were attributed to Tyndale.• But with his incomparable fluency, he woos her gallantly and lavishly in rhyming couplets on behalf of another.rhyme something with something• Crystal sang a hilarious song that rhymed "Corleone" with "Home Alone."Origin rhyme1 (1100-1200) Old French rime, probably from Latin rhythmus; → RHYTHM

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rhyme¹ /raɪm/ noun1. [countable] a short poem or song, especially for children, using words that rhyme:
    a collection of traditional rhymes with illustrations ⇨ nursery rhyme
2. [countable] a word that rhymes with another word
    rhyme for
    Can you think of a rhyme for ‘bicycle’?
3. [uncountable] words or lines of poetry that rhyme:
    I love his use of rhyme and rhythm.
    in rhyme
    The whole story is written in rhyme.
4. no rhyme or reason no sensible reason or organization:
    There seems to be no rhyme or reason for the school’s behaviour.
     

THESAURUS

■ a poem
   ▪ poem a piece of writing that expresses emotions, experiences, and ideas, especially in short lines using words that rhyme: ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ is the first line of a famous poem by WIlliam Wordsworth.
   ▪ sonnet a poem with 14 lines which rhyme with each other in a fixed pattern: Shakespeare’s sonnets
   ▪ haiku a type of Japanese poem with three lines consisting of five, seven, and five syllables: a haiku by Matsuo Basho about a frog jumping into a pond
   ▪ limerick a short humorous poem that has five lines which rhyme: a limerick by Edward Lear, which began ‘There was a young lady of Norway, Who casually sat in a doorway’.
   ▪ rhyme a short poem or song, especially for children, using words that rhyme: a collection of traditional rhymes with illustrations | The children were reciting a rhyme. | a nursery rhyme (=a short traditional poem or song for children)

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rhyme² verb [not in progressive]
1. [intransitive] if two words or lines of poetry rhyme, they end with the same sound, including a vowel
    rhyme with
    ‘Hat’ rhymes with ‘cat’.
    The song has rhyming couplets (=pairs of lines that end in words that rhyme).
2. [transitive] to put two or more words together to make them rhyme
    rhyme something with something
    You can’t rhyme ‘box’ with ‘backs’.