rim

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪm/

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• Rhymes: -ɪm

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”).

rim (plural rims)

1. An edge around something, especially when circular.
2. (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.

3. (journalism) A semicircular copydesk.
   • 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.

• Pacific Rim

• (wheel rim): mag wheel, alloy wheel

rim (third-person singular simple present rims, present participle rimming, simple past and past participle rimmed)

1. (transitive) To form a rim on.
2. (transitive) To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.

   Palm trees rim the beach.

   A walking path rims the island.

3. (transitive or intransitive, of a ball) To roll around a rim.

   The golf ball rimmed the cup.

   The basketball rimmed in and out.

From Middle English rim, rym, ryme, reme, from Old English rēoma (“membrane, ligament”), from Proto-West Germanic *reumō.

rim (plural rims)

1. (UK dialectal) A membrane.
2. (UK dialectal or obsolete) The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly.
   • 1599, Shakespeare, “Act IV, scene IV - Pistol to a captured French soldier from whom he wants a ransom and whom he does not understand”, in King Henry V:

     Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys; / Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat / In drops of crimson blood.

From a variation of ream.

rim (third-person singular simple present rims, present participle rimming, simple past and past participle rimmed)

1. (slang) To lick the anus of a partner as a 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.

• rim job

• ream job

• IRM, MIR, MRI, Mir, RMI, miR, mir

From Latin rhythmus. Doublet of ritme.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈrim/

rim m (plural rims)

1. verse

   Synonym: vers

2. rhyme

   Synonym: rima

• rima

• “rim” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Old Norse hrím, from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą.

rim c (singular definite rimen, not used in plural form)

1. hoarfrost, rime

From late Old Norse rím, from Middle Low German rim, from French rime (“rhyme”).

rim n (singular definite rimet, plural indefinite rim)

1. rhyme

• rim on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

See rime.

rim

1. imperative of rime

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɪm]
• Hyphenation: rim

From Dutch riem, from Middle Dutch rieme, from Old French raime, rayme (“ream”), from Arabic رِزْمَة‎ (rizma, “bundle”).

rim (first-person possessive rimku, second-person possessive rimmu, third-person possessive rimnya)

1. ream, a bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.

From Dutch riem, from Middle Dutch rieme, from Old Dutch *riomo, from Proto-West Germanic *reumō.

rim (first-person possessive rimku, second-person possessive rimmu, third-person possessive rimnya)

1. (colloquial) leather belt.

• “rim” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /rim/

rim

1. smell
2. odour

rim

1. hard

• rimb

From Arabic رُمْح‎ (rumḥ).[1] For rimb, compare the probably related Old Armenian ռումբ (ṙumb).

r̄im ?

1. spear, lance, javelin
2. unit of measure the length of a spear

• → Armenian: ռըմ (ṙəm) (Van, Moks, Shatakh)

From Old Norse rím and (Old?) French rime.

rim n (definite singular rimet, indefinite plural rim, definite plural rima or rimene)

1. a rhyme

• barnerim

From Old Norse hrím.

rim m (definite singular rimen, uncountable)
rim n (definite singular rimet, uncountable)

1. rime (frost)

• rimfrost

• “rim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /riːm/

From Old Norse rím, from Old French rime.

rim n (definite singular rimet, indefinite plural rim, definite plural rima)

1. a rhyme

• barnerim

From Old Norse hrím. Akin to English rime.

rim n (definite singular rimet, uncountable)

1. rime (frost)

• rimfrost

• “rim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *rīmą (“number, count, series”), from Proto-Indo-European *re(i)- (“to reason, count”). Akin to Old Frisian rīm, Old Saxon -rīm, Old High German rīm, Icelandic rím.

• IPA^(key): /riːm/

rīm n

1. number

• English: rime, rhyme

Via Old Portuguese rin, from Latin rēn, from Proto-Italic *hrēn, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰren- (“an internal part of the body”).

rins

• Hyphenation: rim

rim m (plural rins)

1. kidney
2. (in the plural) small of the back

• renal

From Old Norse rím, from Proto-Germanic *rīmą.

rim n

1. rhyme

• rimma

rim (nominative plural rims)

1. rhyme

• rimod

• IPA^(key): [ríːm] (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -íːm

From Old Norse hrím, from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą.

rim n

1. frost, hoarfrost

From Old Norse rím, from Proto-Germanic *rīmą.

rim n

1. story, poem, saga
2. rumour

• riim

• (story, saga) sögu

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.

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ɣim˨˦/
• Tone numbers: rim¹
• Hyphenation: rim

rim (1957–1982 spelling rim)

1. full