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.
   • 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Master Chief (Steve Downes), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:

     That's... our galaxy. We're beyond the rim.

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.
   • 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.

• felloe

• (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 a variation of ream.

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

1. (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.

• rim job

• ream job

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, 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.

Unknown.

rim (plural rims)

1. (British, dialectal) A step of a ladder; a rung.

• 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.”

• IRM, MIR, MRI, Mir, RMI, miR, mir

From Latin rhythmus. Doublet of ritme.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [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

rim

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of rir:
   1. third-person plural present indicative
   2. first-person singular preterite indicative

• 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: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of 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)

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 *h₂rey- (“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

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”).

• Rhymes: -ĩ
• 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. a rhyme (two words that rhyme)
2. a rhyme (rhyming verse)
3. rhyme (rhyming)

• rimma

• rim in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• rim in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rim in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zim˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐim˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɹim˧˧]

rim

1. 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

rim (nominative plural rims)

1. rhyme

• rimod

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