FromMiddle English rim ,rym ,rime , fromOld English rima ( “ rim, edge, border, bank, coast ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *rimô ,*rembô ( “ edge, border ” ) , possibly fromProto-Indo-European *rem- ,*remə- ( “ to rest, support, be based ” ) . Cognate withSaterland Frisian Rim ( “ plank, wooden cross, trellis ” ) ,Old Saxon rimi ( “ edge; border; trim ” ) ,Icelandic rimi ( “ a strip of land ” ) .
rim (plural rims )
Anedge around something, especially when circular. ( automotive , cycling ) Awheelrim .2010 , Rochelle Magee,No Witnesses: A Perilous Journey , page36 :About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chromerims riding slowly through the car lot.
( journalism ) Asemicircular copydesk .1953 September 26,Editor & Publisher 1953-09-26: Vol 86 Iss 40 [2] :COPY READER — Journeyman, experienced makeup, now slot man on metropolitan midwest daily. Will travel for goodrim job on large paper.
2004 , John Russial,Strategic Copy Editing , page130 :A copy chief with poor people skills makes life miserable for copy editors on therim ;[ …]
2009 , Gaylon Eugene Murray,Effective Editing , page 7:On therim are copy editors who edit stories for accuracy, brevity and clarity.
edge around something
Bulgarian:ръб (bg) m ( rǎb ) ,рамка (bg) f ( ramka ) ,перваз (bg) m ( pervaz ) Chinese:Mandarin:轮边 (zh) ( lúnbiān ) Danish:rand (da) ,indfatning (for any shape),fælg (da) (only for wheels) Dutch:rand (nl) m Esperanto:rando Finnish:reuna (fi) ,reunus (fi) ,kehä (fi) French:bord ( for any shape ) ;jante ( only for wheels ) Galician:bordo (gl) m ,borda f ,ourelo m ,randa f ,arengo (gl) m ,anta (gl) f ,cadullo (gl) m ,beira (gl) f ,aba (gl) f ,canto (gl) m German:Rand (de) m ,Kante (de) f ,Felge ( of a wheel ) Hungarian:karima (hu) ( of a top hat ) ,káva (hu) ( of a well ) Icelandic:barmur (is) m ,brún (is) f ,rönd f ,kantur (is) m Ingrian:varo ,laita Interlingua:bordo ,orlo Irish:imeall (ga) m ,fonsa m Italian:orlo (it) ,bordo (it) Macedonian:раб m ( rab ) ,ра́мка (mk) f ( rámka ) Maori:parengaru ,ngutu ( of a container ) ,niao ( of a vessel ) ,pārua ( of a bowl ) Norwegian:Bokmål:kant (no) m ,rand (no) m or f ,innfatning (no) m or f Nynorsk:rand f ,kant m Plautdietsch:Kaunt f Portuguese:borda (pt) f ,orla (pt) f ,aro (pt) m Russian:край (ru) m ( kraj ) ,о́бод (ru) m ( óbod ) ,ободо́к (ru) m ( obodók ) Scottish Gaelic:iomall m ,oir f ,bile f Serbo-Croatian:rub (sh) ,ivica (sh) ,obod (sh) ,naplatak (sh) m ( of wheel ) ,gobela f ( of wheel ) Spanish:borde (es) m ,canto (es) m Swedish:rand (sv) c ,kant (sv) c
wheel rim
Arabic:Hijazi Arabic:جَنْط m ( janṭ ) Basque:uztai ,hagun (eu) Bulgarian:наплат m ( naplat ) ,джанта f ( džanta ) Catalan:llanta (ca) f Chinese:Cantonese:軨 / 𫐉 ,轆軨 / 辘𫐉 Dutch:velg (nl) Esperanto:radrando Finnish:vanne (fi) French:jante (fr) f ,roue (fr) f Galician:lamia (gl) f ,baldón (gl) m ,orelo m German:Felge (de) f Hungarian:felni (hu) ,keréktárcsa (hu) Icelandic:felga (is) f ( automotive ) ,gjörð f ( cycling, etc. ) Irish:fonsa m Italian:cerchione (it) ,cerchio (it) Latin:canthus m Macedonian:ба́ндаж m ( bándaž ) Norman:gante f Norwegian:Bokmål:felg m Nynorsk:felg m Polish:felga (pl) f Portuguese:aro (pt) m Russian:о́бод (ru) m ( óbod ) Spanish:aro m ( Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru, Puerto Rico ) ,llanta f ( Chile, Paraguay, Spain, Uruguay ) ,rin m ( Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela ) ,calce (es) m ,banda (es) f ( Spain ) Swedish:fälg (sv) c Tagalog:yantas Turkish:jant (tr) Vietnamese:vành (vi)
Translations to be checked
rim (third-person singular simple present rims ,present participle rimming ,simple past and past participle rimmed )
( transitive ) To form a rim on.( transitive ) To follow thecontours , possibly creating acircuit .Palm treesrim the beach.
A walking pathrims the island.
( transitive or intransitive , of a ball) To roll around a rim.The golf ballrimmed the cup.
The basketballrimmed in and out.
From a variation ofream .
rim (third-person singular simple present rims ,present participle rimming ,simple past and past participle rimmed )
( vulgar , slang ) To lick theanus of a partner as a sexual act; to performanilingus .1987 December, John W. Dagion,Sex Stop [3] :I had learned to lick their sweaty balls and would know what they wanted if they pulled their pants down and pushed my face in their ass for arimming out.
2008 , Lexy Harper,Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (Like Me) , page216 :When she started thrusting her hips back against his finger, he turned her over andrimmed her asshole as he fingered her clit.
FromMiddle English rim ,rym ,ryme ,reme , fromOld English rēoma ( “ membrane, ligament ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *reumō .
rim (plural rims )
( UK dialectal ) Amembrane .( UK dialectal or obsolete ) The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, theintestines ; the lower part of theabdomen ;belly .1599 , Shakespeare,King Henry V , act iV, scene IV - Pistol to a captured French soldier from whom he wants a ransom and whom he does not understand:Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys; / Or I will fetch thyrim out at thy throat / In drops of crimson blood.
Unknown.
rim (plural rims )
( British , dialectal ) Astep of aladder ; arung .Joseph Wright , editor (1905 ), “RIM,sb. 1 andv. 1 ”, inThe English Dialect Dictionary: [ … ] , volumeV (R–S) , London: Henry Frowde, [ … ] , publisher to theEnglish Dialect Society , [ … ] ; New York, N.Y.:G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons ,→OCLC ,page114 , column 2: “The rung of a ladder. ”FromLatin rhythmus .Doublet ofritme .
rim m (plural rims )
verse Synonym: vers rhyme Synonym: rima FromOld Norse hrím , fromProto-Germanic *hrīmą .
rim c (singular definite rimen ,not used in plural form )
hoarfrost ,rime From lateOld Norse rím , fromMiddle Low German rim , fromFrench rime ( “ rhyme ” ) .
rim n (singular definite rimet ,plural indefinite rim )
rhyme Seerime .
rim
imperative ofrime rim
( reintegrationist norm) inflection ofrir :third-person plural present indicative first-person singular preterite indicative Borrowed fromDutch riem , fromMiddle Dutch rieme , fromOld French raime ,rayme ( “ ream ” ) , fromArabic رِزْمَة ( rizma ,“ bundle ” ) .
rim (plural rim -rim )
ream , a bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.FromDutch riem , fromMiddle Dutch rieme , fromOld Dutch *riomo , fromProto-West Germanic *reumō .
rim (plural rim -rim )
( colloquial ) leather belt .rim
smell odour rim
hard FromArabic رُمْح ( rumḥ ) .[ 1] Forrimb , compare the probably relatedOld Armenian ռումբ ( ṙumb ) .
r̄im ?
spear ,lance ,javelin unit of measure the length of a spear → Armenian:ռըմ ( ṙəm ) ( Van, Moks, Shatakh ) ^ Chyet, Michael L. (2003 ) “rim ”, inKurdish–English Dictionary [1] , with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press,page518a FromOld Norse rím and (Old?)French rime .
rim n (definite singular rimet ,indefinite plural rim ,definite plural rima or rimene )
arhyme FromOld Norse hrím .
rim m (definite singular rimen ,uncountable )
rime ( frost ) “rim” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .FromOld Norse rím , fromOld French rime .
rim n (definite singular rimet ,indefinite plural rim ,definite plural rima )
arhyme FromOld Norse hrím . Akin toEnglish rime .
rim n (definite singular rimet ,uncountable )
rime ( frost ) “rim” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .FromProto-West Germanic *rīm , fromProto-Germanic *rīmą ( “ number, count, series ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *h₂rey- ( “ to reason, count ” ) . Akin toOld Frisian rīm ,Old Saxon -rīm ,Old High German rīm ,Icelandic rím .
rīm n
number Stronga -stem:
Rim (pastry) Inherited fromOld Galician-Portuguese rin , fromLatin rēn , fromProto-Italic *hrēn , possibly fromProto-Indo-European *gʷʰren- ( “ an internal part of the body ” ) .
rim m (plural rins )
kidney ( in theplural ) small of the back ( Portugal ) a pastry in the shape of a kidneyFromOld Norse rím , fromProto-Germanic *rīmą .
rim n
arhyme (two words that rhyme) arhyme (rhyming verse) rhyme (rhyming)(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
rim
tocook food with a small amount ofwater over a period of time in order forsalt orsugar topenetrate the foodCam sành chê đắng chê hôi, Hồngrim chê lạt, thuốc chồi khen ngon. (please add an English translation of this usage example) rim (nominative plural rims )
rhyme 1 status as a case is disputed2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
FromProto-Tai *k.temᴬ ( “ full ” ) . Cognate withThai เต็ม ( dtem ) ,Lao ເຕັມ ( tem ) ,Northern Thai ᨲᩮ᩠ᨾ ,Lü ᦎᦲᧄ ( ṫiim ) ,Shan တဵမ် ( tǎem ) ,Nong Zhuang daem .
rim (1957–1982 spelling rim )
full