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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English rim , rym , rime , from Old English rima ( “ rim, edge, border, bank, coast ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *rimô , *rembô ( “ edge, border ” ) , 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 ” ) .
Noun
rim (plural rims )
An edge around something, especially when circular.
( automotive , cycling ) A wheelrim .
2010 , Rochelle Magee, No Witnesses: A Perilous Journey , page 36 :About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.
( journalism ) A semicircular copydesk .
1953 September 26, Editor & Publisher 1953-09-26: Vol 86 Iss 40 :COPY READER — Journeyman, experienced makeup, now slot man on metropolitan midwest daily. Will travel for good rim job on large paper.
2004 , John Russial, Strategic Copy Editing , page 130 :A copy chief with poor people skills makes life miserable for copy editors on the rim ; [ …]
2009 , Gaylon Eugene Murray, Effective Editing , page 7:On the rim are copy editors who edit stories for accuracy, brevity and clarity.
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Translations
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)
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
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
Italian: orlo (it) , bordo (it)
Macedonian: раб m ( rab ) , ра́мка 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 )
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)
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. )
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 )
Swedish: fälg (sv) c
Tagalog: yantas
Turkish: jant (tr)
Vietnamese: vành (vi)
Translations to be checked
See also
Verb
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 the contours , possibly creating a circuit .
Palm trees rim the beach.
A walking path rims the island.
( transitive or intransitive , of a ball) To roll around a rim.
The golf ball rimmed the cup.
The basketball rimmed in and out.
Translations
Etymology 2
From a variation of ream .
Verb
rim (third-person singular simple present rims , present participle rimming , simple past and past participle rimmed )
( vulgar , slang ) To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act; to perform anilingus .
1987 December, John W. Dagion, Sex Stop :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 a rimming out.
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.
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Etymology 3
From Middle English rim , rym , ryme , reme , from Old English rēoma ( “ membrane, ligament ” ) , from Proto-West Germanic *reumō .
Noun
rim (plural rims )
( UK dialectal ) A membrane .
( UK dialectal or obsolete ) The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines ; the lower part of the abdomen ; 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 thy rim out at thy throat / In drops of crimson blood.
Etymology 4
Unknown.
Noun
rim (plural rims )
( British , dialectal ) A step of a ladder ; a rung .
Further reading
Joseph Wright , editor (1905 ), “RIM, sb. 1 and v. 1 ”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: , volumes V (R–S) , London: Henry Frowde, , publisher to the English Dialect Society , ; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons , →OCLC , page 114 , column 2: “The rung of a ladder. ”
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin rhythmus . Doublet of ritme .
Pronunciation
Noun
rim m (plural rims )
verse
Synonym: vers
rhyme
Synonym: rima
Related terms
Further reading
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse hrím , from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą .
Noun
rim c (singular definite rimen , not used in plural form )
hoarfrost , rime
Etymology 2
From late Old Norse rím , from Middle Low German rim , from French rime ( “ rhyme ” ) .
Noun
rim n (singular definite rimet , plural indefinite rim )
rhyme
Inflection
Further reading
Etymology 3
See rime .
Verb
rim
imperative of rime
Galician
Verb
rim
( reintegrationist norm) inflection of rir :
third-person plural present indicative
first-person singular preterite indicative
Indonesian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Dutch riem , from Middle Dutch rieme , from Old French raime , rayme ( “ ream ” ) , from Arabic رِزْمَة ( rizma , “ bundle ” ) .
Noun
rim (first-person possessive rimku , second-person possessive rimmu , third-person possessive rimnya )
ream , a bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
Etymology 2
From Dutch riem , from Middle Dutch rieme , from Old Dutch *riomo , from Proto-West Germanic *reumō .
Noun
rim (first-person possessive rimku , second-person possessive rimmu , third-person possessive rimnya )
( colloquial ) leather belt .
Further reading
Mizo
Pronunciation
Noun
rim
smell
odour
Adverb
rim
hard
Northern Kurdish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Arabic رُمْح ( rumḥ ) . For rimb , compare the probably related Old Armenian ռումբ ( ṙumb ) .
Noun
r̄im ?
spear , lance , javelin
unit of measure the length of a spear
Descendants
→ Armenian: ռըմ ( ṙəm ) ( Van, Moks, Shatakh )
References
^ Chyet, Michael L. (2003 ) “rim ”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary , with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 518a
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse rím and (Old?) French rime .
Noun
rim n (definite singular rimet , indefinite plural rim , definite plural rima or rimene )
a rhyme
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Norse hrím .
Noun
rim m (definite singular rimen , uncountable )
rime ( frost )
Derived terms
References
“rim” in The Bokmål Dictionary .
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse rím , from Old French rime .
Noun
rim n (definite singular rimet , indefinite plural rim , definite plural rima )
a rhyme
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Norse hrím . Akin to English rime .
Noun
rim n (definite singular rimet , uncountable )
rime ( frost )
Derived terms
References
“rim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *rīmą ( “ number, count, series ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey- ( “ to reason, count ” ) . Akin to Old Frisian rīm , Old Saxon -rīm , Old High German rīm , Icelandic rím .
Pronunciation
Noun
rīm n
number
Declension
Declension of rim (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
Descendants
Portuguese
rins
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rin , from Latin rēn , from Proto-Italic *hrēn , possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰren- ( “ an internal part of the body ” ) .
Pronunciation
Rhymes: -ĩ
Hyphenation: rim
Noun
rim m (plural rins )
kidney
( in the plural ) small of the back
Related terms
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse rím , from Proto-Germanic *rīmą .
Noun
rim n
a rhyme (two words that rhyme)
a rhyme (rhyming verse)
rhyme (rhyming)
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
References
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Verb
rim
to cook food with a small amount of water over a period of time, in order for salt or sugar to penetrate the food, creating a richer flavor
Volapük
Noun
rim (nominative plural rims )
rhyme
Declension
declension of rim
1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
See also
Zhuang
Etymology
From Proto-Tai *k.temᴬ ( “ full ” ) . Cognate with Thai เต็ม ( dtem ) , Lao ເຕັມ ( tem ) , Northern Thai ᨲᩮ᩠ᨾ , Lü ᦎᦲᧄ ( ṫiim ) , Shan တဵမ် ( tǎem ) , Nong Zhuang daem .
Pronunciation
Adjective
rim (1957–1982 spelling rim )
full