Rim
[rɪm]
Definition
(noun.) the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached.
(noun.) (basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended; 'the ball hit the rim and bounced off'.
(noun.) the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.
(verb.) roll around the rim of; 'the ball rimmed the basket'.
(verb.) furnish with a rim; 'rim a hat'.
(verb.) run around the rim of; 'Sugar rimmed the dessert plate'.
Typed by Billie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.
(n.) The lower part of the abdomen.
(v. t.) To furnish with a rim; to border.
Inputed by Gavin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Border, edge, margin, brim, brink, verge, border, skirt, confine.
Typed by Jared
Definition
n. a raised margin border brim: in a wheel the circular part farthest from the nave.—v.t. to put a rim to:—pr.p. rim′ming; pa.t. and pa.p. rimmed.—n. Rim′-fire a cartridge which has a detonating substance placed in some part of the rim of its base.—adjs. Rim′iform; Rim′less.—ns. Rim′mer an instrument for ornamenting pastry; Rim′-plān′er a machine for dressing wheel-fellies; Rim′-saw a saw the cutting part of which is annular.
n. a membrane: the peritoneum.
Typist: Natalie
Examples
- As they came up, still deep in the shadow of the pines, after dropping down from the high meadow into the wooden valley and climbing up it on a trail that paralleled the stream and then left it to gain, steeply, the top of a rim-rock formation, a man with a carbine stepped out from behind a tree. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They had come through the heavy timber to the cup-shaped upper end of the little valley and he saw where the camp must be under the rim-rock that rose ahead of them through the trees. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The central dots in the section are the conducting wires round which are the gutta percha and hemp, and the outer rim represents the iron wire casing. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- A watch balance is made with a rim of brass encircling and firmly united to the rim of steel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Nothing fell upon the ground but a few particles of froth, which slowly detached themselves from the rim, and trickled lazily down. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The rim of his ear all around came to a sharp edge and was serrated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He picked it up and, looking it over, observed that it had a binding rim made of bamboo, cut from the outer edge of the cane; a very long strip. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His hat presents at the rims a peculiar appearance of a glistening nature, as if it had been a favourite snail-promenade. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The practical method of securing the proper and ready adaptation of balances to springs is to place in the rims of the balance a number of small screws having relatively heavy heads. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The relative thickness of the rims is perhaps designed to express the relative distances of the planets. Plato. The Republic.
- The wheels had heavy cast iron hubs with wooden spokes and rims and wrought iron tires, and the frame was of wood placed outside the wheels. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The distant rims of the world and of the firmament seemed to be a division in time no less than a division in matter. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The outermost had the rim broadest, and the inner whorls were smaller and smaller, and had their rims narrower. Plato. The Republic.
- One was an elderly man, with white hair and large rimmed spectacles. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He was a tall man and wore steel-rimmed spectacles. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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