Cram vs Brim - What's the difference?
cram | brim |
The act of cramming.
Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
To ; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.
To fill with food to ; to stuff.
To put through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
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To , and to satiety; to stuff.
To make crude or study.
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.
* 2006
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=July 3
, author=Piers Newbury
, title=Wimbledon 2011: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in final
, work=BBC Sport
To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
* Tennyson:
Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.
As nouns the difference between cram and brim
is that cram is the act of cramming while brim is (obsolete) the sea; ocean; water; flood or brim can be an edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water).As verbs the difference between cram and brim
is that cram is to ; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people while brim is to be full to overflowing or brim can be of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.As an adjective brim is
(obsolete) fierce; sharp; cold.cram
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(cramm)Derived terms
* cram schoolAnagrams
* *brim
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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.