Brim vs Curb - What's the difference?
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An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water).
* Bible, Josh. iii. 15
The topmost rim or lip of a container.
* Coleridge:
A projecting rim, especially of a hat.
To be full to overflowing.
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To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
* Tennyson:
Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.
(North America) A row of concrete along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK )
A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
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A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and chin groove via a curb chain.
* Drayton
(North America) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with an adjacent paved areas to permit vehicles to off-load or load passengers.
A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
To check, restrain or control.
* "Curb your dog."
* Prior
To rein in.
To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
To bend or curve.
* Holland
To crouch; to cringe.
* Shakespeare
In transitive terms the difference between brim and curb
is that brim is to fill to the brim, upper edge, or top while curb is to bend or curve.As nouns the difference between brim and curb
is that brim is the sea; ocean; water; flood while curb is a row of concrete along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK.As verbs the difference between brim and curb
is that brim is to be full to overflowing while curb is to check, restrain or control.As an adjective brim
is fierce; sharp; cold.brim
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) brim, brym, .Derived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) brim, brem, .Noun
(en noun)- The feet of the priest that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water.
- The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.
- Saw I that insect on this goblet's brim / I would remove it with an anxious pity.
- He turned the back of his brim up stylishly.
- (Wordsworth)
Derived terms
* to the brimVerb
(brimm)- The room brimmed with people.
New York Times
- It was a hint of life in a place that still brims with memories of death, a reminder that even five years later, the attacks are not so very distant.
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- Arrange the board and brim the glass.
Etymology 3
Either from (breme), or directly from (etyl) (though not attested in Middle English).Verb
(brimm)Etymology 4
See (breme).Anagrams
* * ----curb
English
Alternative forms
* kerb (British)Noun
(en noun)- By these men, religion, that should be / The curb , is made the spur of tyranny.
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- He that before ran in the pastures wild / Felt the stiff curb control his angry jaws.
Derived terms
* curb appeal * curb service * roof curbVerb
(en verb)- Where pinching want must curb thy warm desires.
- crooked and curbed lines
- Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, / Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.