rim
noun/rɪm/
/rɪm/
- the edge of something in the shape of a circle
- He looked at them over the rim of his glass.
- The rims of her eyes were red with crying.
- spectacles with gold rims
Extra Examples- She watched him steadily over the rim of her cup.
- The plate had a mark on the rim.
- on the outer rim of the solar system
- the metal edge of a wheel onto which the tyre is fixed
- metal wheel rims
- -rimmedadjective having a particular type of rim
- gold-rimmed spectacles
- red-rimmed eyes (= for example, from crying)
Word OriginOld English rima ‘a border, coast’; compare with Old Norse rimi ‘ridge, strip of land’ (the only known cognate).
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