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Pilm vs Plim - What's the difference?

pilm | plim |

Plim is a anagram of pilm.



As nouns the difference between pilm and plim

is that pilm is dust while plim is mass crowd.

As verbs the difference between pilm and plim

is that pilm is (meaning uncertain) To have dust blow about while plim is to swell or inflate; to fill up.

As an adjective plim is

plump; full.

pilm

English

Noun

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  • (dialect) dust
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , year=1876 , author=Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art , journal=Report and transactions , volume=8 , page=722 , passage=What is the derivation of pilm''''' = dust, so frequently heard in Devon, and its derivatives ''pilmy'', dusty : it ''pilmeth''. [...] ''Pillom'' is the full word, of which '''''pilm'' is a contraction. It appears to have been derived from the British word ''pylor, dust.}}
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , year=1885 , author=Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art , journal=Report and transactions , volume=17 , page=55 , passage=I may quote the famous definition once given in court to enlighten the Bench and the Bar as to the nature of pilm''''' : " Mucks a-drowed and zo vleeth," that is, " mud dried, and so ''it'' flies about "—not a bad definition of '''''pilm , which everybody here knows means dust.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dialect, impersonal) (meaning uncertain) To have dust blow about

    • Derived terms

    * pilmy

    Anagrams

    *

    plim

    Translingual

    Symbol

    (head)
  • probability limit
    • For a sequence {X''''n } of random variables \underset{n\to\infty}{\operatorname{plim}}\,X_n = X is the same as \lim_{n\to\infty}\operatorname{Pr}\big(, X_n-X, \geq \varepsilon\big) = 0 (\forall \varepsilon > 0)

    See also

    * lim ----