Rim vs Brim - What's the difference?
rim | brim |
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.
* {{quote-book, year=1599, author=Shakespeare, title=King Henry V, chapter=Act IV, scene IV - Pistol to a captured French soldier from whom he wants a ransom and whom he does not understand
, passage=Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys; / Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat / In drops of crimson blood.}}
(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
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 rim and brim
is that rim is an edge around something, especially when circular while brim is the sea; ocean; water; flood.As verbs the difference between rim and brim
is that rim is to form a rim on while brim is to be full to overflowing.As an adjective brim is
fierce; sharp; cold.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.
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.