Rim vs Fringe - What's the difference?
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To form a rim on.
To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit
(label) To roll around a rim.
A membrane.
The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly.
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(label) to lick the anus of a partner as part of the sexual act.
* 2008 , Lexy Harper, Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (Like Me) , page 216
A decorative border.
A marginal or peripheral part.
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Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.
The periphery of a town or city.
That part of the hair that hangs down above the eyes; bangs.
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(label) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
Non-mainstream theatre.
(label) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
Outside the mainstream.
To decorate with fringe.
To serve as a fringe.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
Rim is a related term of fringe.
As a proper noun rim
is rome (city).As a noun fringe is
a decorative border.As an adjective fringe is
outside the mainstream.As a verb fringe is
to decorate with fringe.rim
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rim, rym, rime, from (etyl) .See also
* (wheel rim) mag wheel, alloy wheelVerb
(transitive)- Palm trees rim the beach.
- A walking path rims the island.
- The golf ball rimmed the cup.
- The basketball rimmed in and out.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) rim, rym, ryme, reme, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From a variation of ream.Verb
(rimm)- When she started thrusting her hips back against his finger, he turned her over and rimmed her asshole as he fingered her clit.
fringe
English
Noun
(en noun)- the fringe of a picture
- the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance
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- He lives in the fringe of London.
- Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.
- In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe .
page 155,
- Fayne in the photograph had a fringe , hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping.
page 16,
- Ingeborg knew she wasn?t ready for fringes or short hair like some of the women she?d seen, and she hoped her daughter wasn?t either.
- “No.” Astrid?s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.
page 231,
- Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).
- interference fringe
- The Fringe''; ''Edinburgh Fringe'''''; ''Adelaide '''Fringe
Synonyms
* (hair in front) forelock, bangs (US) *Derived terms
* fringe benefit * fringy * lunatic fringeAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* nonmainstreamVerb
(fring)- Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.