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Rim vs Rine - What's the difference?

rim | rine |

As a proper noun rim

is rome (city).

As a verb rine is

to touch.

As a noun rine is

a watercourse or ditch or rine can be .

rim

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) rim, rym, rime, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • An edge around something, especially when circular.
  • wheelrim
  • See also
    * (wheel rim) mag wheel, alloy wheel

    Verb

    (transitive)
  • To form a rim on.
  • To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit
  • Palm trees rim the beach.
    A walking path rims the island.
  • (label) To roll around a rim.
  • 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)
  • 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.}}

    Etymology 3

    From a variation of ream.

    Verb

    (rimm)
  • (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
  • When she started thrusting her hips back against his finger, he turned her over and rimmed her asshole as he fingered her clit.

    rine

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) rinen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (rin)
  • To touch.
  • To concern; affect.
  • To pertain to; fall to.
  • To tend to a certain effect or outcome.
  • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) rune, from (etyl) . See (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A watercourse or ditch.
  • Etymology 3

    Variation of (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)