Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: rim
IPA transcription: [ɹ'ɪm]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: rim
    Meaning: the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: rim
    Meaning: run around the rim of; "Sugar rimmed the dessert plate"
Usage examples
  • Harrington pushed one of his pieces out along a radial line toward the rim.
  • Once when this one alighted on the rim of her nest she whirred herself right down inside.
  • It is a mixing bowl of pure silver, except the rim, which is inlaid with gold, and it is the work of Vulcan.
  • "Let us work, then, and get these bags all arranged on the rim of the car, so that they may be thrown overboard at one movement."
  • THE RIM ROUND THE EYES in the black-spotted variety should be black, in the liver-spotted variety brown--never flesh-colour in either.
  • Line a large round plate with the paste, place a narrow rim of the same round the outer edge, and lay the apples thickly in the middle.
  • Joe leaped out, holding on the while to the rim of the car with one hand, and with the other gathering up a quantity of stones equal to his own weight.
  • There was the old grisly four-post bedstead, without hangings, and with a jail-like upper rim of iron and spikes; and there was the old patch-work counterpane.
  • Only by making it clear I would distract him until he told me what I wanted to know could I get him to turn from his absorbed contemplation of that phantom dance between the sea rim and the shine.
  • In looking through a field-glass I do not wish to perceive the lenses nor to see rainbows about their rim; yet I should not wish the eye itself to lose its pigments and add no dyes to the bulks it discerns.