rim

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noun
  1. the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.

  2. any edge, margin, or frame added to or around a central object or area.

  1. the outer circle of a wheel, attached to the hub by spokes.

  2. a circular strip of metal forming the connection between an automobile wheel and tire, either permanently attached to or removable from the wheel.

  3. a drive wheel or flywheel, as on a spinning mule.

  4. Basketball. the metal ring from which the net is suspended to form the basket.

  5. Journalism. the outer edge of a usually U-shaped copy desk, occupied by the copyreaders.: Compare slot1 (def. 5b).

  6. Metallurgy. (in an ingot) an outer layer of metal having a composition different from that of the center.

verb (used with object),rimmed, rim·ming.
  1. to furnish with a rim, border, or margin.

  2. (of a golf ball or putt) to roll around the edge of (a hole) but not go in.

  1. Basketball. (of a basketball) to roll around (the rim of the basket) and not go in.

  2. to coat or encrust the rim of (a glass): Rim each cocktail glass with salt.

Origin of rim

1
First recorded before 1150; Middle English; Old English -rima (in compounds); cognate with Old Norse rimi “raised strip of land, ridge”

synonym study For rim

1. Rim, brim refer to the boundary of a circular or curved area. A rim is a line or surface bounding such an area; an edge or border: the rim of a glass. Brim usually means the inside of the rim, at the top of a hollow object (except of a hat), and is used particularly when the object contains something: The cup was filled to the brim.

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Other words from rim

  • rimless, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for rim (1 of 2)

rim

/ (rɪm) /


noun
  1. the raised edge of an object, esp of something more or less circular such as a cup or crater

  2. the peripheral part of a wheel, to which the tyre is attached

  1. basketball the hoop from which the net is suspended

verbrims, rimming or rimmed (tr)
  1. to put a rim on (a pot, cup, wheel, etc)

  2. slang to lick, kiss, or suck the anus of (one's sexual partner)

  1. ball games (of a ball) to run around the edge of (a hole, basket, etc)

Origin of rim

1
Old English rima; related to Old Saxon rimi, Old Norse rimi ridge

British Dictionary definitions for RIM (2 of 2)

RIM

abbreviation for
  1. Mauritania (international car registration)

Origin of RIM

2
From République Islamique de Mauritanie

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