lime

• IPA^(key): /laɪm/
• Rhymes: -aɪm

From Middle English lyme, lym, lime, from Old English līm, from Proto-Germanic *līmaz. Cognate with Danish lim (from Old Norse lím), Dutch lijm, German Leim; Latin limus (“mud”).

lime (countable and uncountable, plural limes)

1. (chemistry) Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).
   • 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 149.

     Lime, which is the product of the burning of chalk or limestone, might be bought ready burnt, or it could be burnt in kilns specially constructed in the neighbourhood of the building operations.

2. (poetic) Any gluey or adhesive substance; something which traps or captures someone; sometimes a synonym for birdlime.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1

     Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Wordsworth

     Like the lime that foolish birds are caught with.

lime (third-person singular simple present limes, present participle liming, simple past and past participle limed)

1. (transitive) To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime).
   • Rudyard Kipling, The Land

     If I were you, I'd lime.

2. (transitive) To smear with birdlime.
   1. (rare) To ensnare, catch, entrap.
      • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1

        URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.

        HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps:

        Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

      • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 39:

        Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn.

3. (transitive) To apply limewash.

Avenue of limes (Tilia) in Prague.

An alteration of line, a variant form of lind.

lime (plural limes)

1. A deciduous tree of the genus Tilia, especially Tilia × europaea; the linden tree, or its wood.
   • 1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 3

     she looked before her, not consciously seeing, but absorbing into the intensity of her mood, the solemn glory of the afternoon with its long swathes of light between the far-off rows of limes, whose shadows touched each other.

• Both this and the citrus are trees with fragrant flowers, but this is more temperate and the citrus is more tropical and subtropical. Outside of Europe and adjoining parts of Asia, the citrus sense is much more common

• American lime (Tilia americana)
• broad-leaved lime (Tilia platyphyllos)
• brooklime (Veronica spp.)
• lime tree looper (Erannis tiliaria)
• silver lime (Tilia tomentosa)

• linden

Avocados and limes.

From French lime, from Spanish lima, from Arabic لِيمَة‎ (līma), from Persian لیمو‎ (līmū).

lime (plural limes)

1. Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon.
2. Any of the trees that bear limes, especially Key lime, Citrus aurantiifolia.
3. A light, somewhat yellowish, green colour associated with the fruits of a lime tree.

   lime colour:  

   web lime colour:  

Both this and the linden are trees with fragrant flowers, but the linden is more temperate and this is more tropical and subtropical. Outside of Europe and adjoining parts of Asia, this sense is much more common.

lime (not comparable)

1. Containing lime or lime juice.
2. Having the aroma or flavor of lime.
3. Lime-green.

Back-formation from limer.

lime (third-person singular simple present limes, present participle liming, simple past and past participle limed)

1. (West Indies) To hang out/socialize in an informal, relaxed environment, especially with friends, for example at a party or on the beach.

lime (plural limes)

1. Alternative form of lyam (a leash)

• limehound

From lime (the fruit) as comparable to lemon (a more explicit rating in anime).

lime (plural limes)

1. (anime) A fan fiction story that stops short of full, explicit descriptions of sexual activity, with the intimacy left to the reader's imagination.

• Elmi, Emil, Imel, Lemi, Liem, Meli, mile

lime c (singular definite limen, plural indefinite lime or limes)

1. lime (fruit)

lime (imperative lim, infinitive at lime, present tense limer, past tense limede, perfect tense har limet)

1. to glue

• IPA^(key): /ˈlime/, [ˈlime̞]
• Hyphenation: li‧me

lime

1. lime (citrus tree and its fruit)

This word is now more common than limetti but still regarded as less correct by, for example, the Kielitoimiston sanakirja. Some inflected forms are indeed quite awkward to use.

• limetti

• Lemi, ilme

• IPA^(key): /lim/

• audio (une lime)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -im

From Latin līma.

lime f (plural limes)

1. file (tool)

• lime à ongles
• limer

From Spanish lima, from Arabic لِيمَة‎ (līma).

lime f (plural limes)

1. lime (fruit, tree)

• (fruit): limette

• miel
• mile

• “lime” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

lime

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of limar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of limar

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.me/

lime f pl

1. plural of lima

Borrowed from English.

lime m (invariable)

1. lime (citrus tree)

• elmi, meli

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.me/, [ˈliː.mɛ]

līme

1. vocative singular of līmus

From Old English lim.

lime

1. Alternative form of lyme (“limb”)

From Old English līm.

lime

1. Alternative form of lyme (“quicklime”)

From Persian لیمو‎ (līmū), via Arabic لِيمَة‎ (līma), Spanish lima, and English lime

lime m (definite singular limen, indefinite plural limer, definite plural limene)

1. a lime (citrus fruit)

From Old Norse líma

lime (imperative lim, present tense limer, passive limes, simple past lima or limet or limte, past participle lima or limet or limt, present participle limende)

1. to glue or paste (something)

• lim (noun)

• “lime” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Persian لیمو‎ (līmū), via Arabic لِيمَة‎ (līma), Spanish lima, and English lime

lime m (definite singular limen, indefinite plural limar, definite plural limane)

1. a lime (citrus fruit)

• limett

• “lime” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

lime

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of limar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of limar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of limar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of limar

• IPA^(key): /ˈlime/

lime

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of limar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of limar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of limar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of limar.