Noun: rim
Sample Sentences
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That's... our galaxy. We're beyond the rim. [2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Master Chief (Steve Downes), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:]
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About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot. [2010, Rochelle Magee, No Witnesses: A Perilous Journey, page 36:]
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COPY READER — Journeyman, experienced makeup, now slot man on metropolitan midwest daily. Will travel for good rim job on large paper. [1953 September 26, Editor & Publisher 1953-09-26: Vol 86 Iss 40:]
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A copy chief with poor people skills makes life miserable for copy editors on the rim; […] [2004, John Russial, Strategic Copy Editing, page 130:]
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On the rim are copy editors who edit stories for accuracy, brevity and clarity. [2009, Gaylon Eugene Murray, Effective Editing, page 7:]
Nouns inflected like rim
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Old English rima
3. Middle English rim
4. English rim
5. From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima (“rim, edge, border, bank, coast”), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô (“edge, border”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *remə- (“to rest, support, be based”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rim (“plank, wooden cross, trellis”), Old Saxon rimi (“edge; border; trim”), Icelandic rimi (“a strip of land”). See: Old English Nouns '
rima', Icelandic Nouns '
rimi'.
Verbs referencing "rim"
Dutch Nouns
raam.