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rich | kim |

As an adjective rich

is as hell, very .

As a noun kim is

pincers, clamp.

rich

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.
  • *, chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17, author=(George Monbiot)
    • , volume=188, issue=23, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Money just makes the rich suffer , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]}}
  • Having a fatty, intense flavour.
    • a rich''' dish; '''rich''' cream or soup; '''rich pastry
  • * Baker
    • Sauces and rich spices are fetched from India.
  • Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.
    • a rich''' treasury; a '''rich''' entertainment; a '''rich crop
  • * Rowe
    • If life be short, it shall be glorious; / Each minute shall be rich in some great action.
  • * Milton
    • The gorgeous East with richest hand / Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-27, volume=408, issue=8846, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Battle of the bulge , passage=For countries with rich culinary traditions that date back to the Aztecs and Incas, Mexico and Peru have developed quite a taste for modern food fashions. Mexicans quaff more fizzy drinks than any other country; Peru has the highest density of fast-food joints in the world.}}
  • Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.
    • rich''' soil or land; a '''rich mine
  • Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.
    • a rich''' dress; '''rich''' silk or fur; '''rich presents
  • * Milton
    • rich and various gems
  • Not faint or delicate; vivid.
    • a rich red colour
  • (informal, dated) Very amusing.
    • The scene was a rich one.
    a rich incident or character
    (Thackeray)
  • (informal) Ridiculous, absurd.
  • (computing) Elaborate]], having complex [[format, formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.
  • * 2002 , David Austerberry, The Technology of Video and Audio Streaming
    • A skilled multimedia developer will have no problems adding interactive video and audio into existing rich media web pages.
  • * 2003 , Patricia Cardoza, Patricia DiGiacomo, Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
    • Some rich text email messages contain formatting information that's best viewed with Microsoft Word.
  • * 2008 , Aaron Newman, Adam Steinberg, Jeremy Thomas, Enterprise 2.0 Implementation
    • But what did matter was that the new web platform provided a rich experience.
  • Of a fuel-air mixture, having less air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.

    • Synonyms

    * (wealthy) wealthy, well off, see also

    Antonyms

    * (wealthy) poor; see also * (plentiful) needy * (computing) plain, unformatted, vanilla * (fuel-air mixture) lean

    Derived terms

    * filthy rich * get-rich-quick * hood rich * neutron-rich * nickel-rich * too rich for one's blood * rags to riches * richdom * riches * richly * rich media * richness * rich tea biscuit * rich text * strike it rich * superrich

    Related terms

    * nouveau riche

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To enrich.
    • (Gower)

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    kim

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Gim (Korean surname )

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , a short form of Kimball or Kimberley.
  • * 1901 , Chapter 1
    • The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim ’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.
  • used since 1940s, a short form of Kimberly/Kimberley.
  • * 1926 , Show Boat , Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:
    • Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. - - - It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born .
  • * 1991 , Mao II , Viking, ISBN 0670839043, page 16
    • It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim'. She has known girls named '''Kim''' since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain ' Kims .
  • ), the most common Korean surname.