nim
1to steal or pilfer.
Origin of nim
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Other definitions for nim (2 of 2)
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
Origin of nim
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How to use nim in a sentence
When she got him, she just decided she was going to have fun with nim.
‘Project Nim’: The Stunning New Documentary about Chimpanzees | Marlow Stern | July 9, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThere, nim lived out the rest of his days, dying in 2000 at age 26 from a heart attack.
‘Project Nim’: The Stunning New Documentary about Chimpanzees | Marlow Stern | July 9, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThere, nim met Bob Ingersoll, a high-spirited University of Oklahoma student who worked at the facility.
‘Project Nim’: The Stunning New Documentary about Chimpanzees | Marlow Stern | July 9, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTProject nim, in theaters Friday, chronicles a bizarre 1970s project that sought to teach chimpanzees language.
‘Project Nim’: The Stunning New Documentary about Chimpanzees | Marlow Stern | July 9, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTA campaign was then spearheaded by Ingersoll to save nim, and after dozens of letters, his voice was heard.
‘Project Nim’: The Stunning New Documentary about Chimpanzees | Marlow Stern | July 9, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
Take of fresh nim leaves a sufficiency; bruise and moisten with tepid water.
Thus, the verb to carry is nim bemn, I carry; nim bemn-ego, I am carried.
Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 | Henry Rowe SchoolcraftThus neen, is sometimes rendered ne, or nin, and sometimes nim.
Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraftnim, call that boy to mind the oxen while you come in, or I've a notion they'll be makin' free with Miss's flowers here.'
Cedar Creek | Elizabeth Hely WalsheThe system is highly modular and is built into nim bins with modified back connectors.
On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969 | H. W. Fulbright et al.
British Dictionary definitions for nim
/ (nɪm) /
a game in which two players alternately remove one or more small items, such as matchsticks, from one of several rows or piles, the object being to take (or avoid taking) the last item remaining on the table
Origin of nim
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