RIM (rimmed, rimming)

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Irregular inflected forms: rimmed    , rimming   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rim mean? 

• RIM (noun)
  The noun RIM has 5 senses:

1. the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object

2. (basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended

3. the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached

4. a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object

5. the top edge of a vessel or other container

  Familiarity information: RIM used as a noun is common.

• RIM (verb)
  The verb RIM has 3 senses:

1. run around the rim of

2. furnish with a rim

3. roll around the rim of

  Familiarity information: RIM used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("rim" is a kind of...):

round shape (a shape that is curved and without sharp angles)

bound; boundary; edge (a line determining the limits of an area)

Derivation:

rim (furnish with a rim)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the ball hit the rim and bounced off

Hypernyms ("rim" is a kind of...):

hoop; ring (a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling)

Domain category:

basketball; basketball game; hoops (a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("rim" is a kind of...):

hoop; ring (a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rim"):

felloe; felly (rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted)

Holonyms ("rim" is a part of...):

wheel (a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines))

Sense 4

Meaning:

A projection used for strength or for attaching to another object

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

flange; rim

Hypernyms ("rim" is a kind of...):

projection (any structure that branches out from a central support)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The top edge of a vessel or other container

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

brim; lip; rim

Hypernyms ("rim" is a kind of...):

edge (a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rim"):

collar; shoe collar (the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot)

Holonyms ("rim" is a part of...):

vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))

• RIM (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rim    ... he / she / it rims   
Past simple: rimmed   
Past participle: rimmed   
-ing form: rimming   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Run around the rim of

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

Sugar rimmed the dessert plate

Hypernyms (to "rim" is one way to...):

line; run along (be in line with; form a line along)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rim"):

beard (go along the rim, like a beard around the chin)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Furnish with a rim

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

rim a hat

Hypernyms (to "rim" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

rim (the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Roll around the rim of

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

the ball rimmed the basket

Hypernyms (to "rim" is one way to...):

roll; turn over (move by turning over or rotating)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

The signature of organics is very clear on the floor of Ernutet Crater, on its southern rim and in an area just outside the crater to the southwest.

(Dawn Discovers Evidence for Organic Material on Ceres, NASA)

Some of the most important findings from Opportunity's long mission came from combining CRISM and rover observations of a site about 2 miles (3 kilometers) farther north on the crater's western rim.

(Aluminum-Bearing Site on Mars Draws NASA Visitor, NASA)

Further analysis showed that 44 percent of patients had only rimless lesions; 34 percent had one to three rimmed lesions; and 22 percent had four or more rimmed lesions.

(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)

Here we lived long, on the rim of the sea, among a people by whom the Russians were well hated.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"There's a storm gathering out there on the sea-rim."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A depression on the surface of the curled rim of the most lateral border of the outer portion of the ear.

(Fossa of the Helix, NCI Thesaurus)

As the planet on the outer rim, it takes 14 to 30 years to transit each sign’s constellation and 248 years to circle the Sun.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Oxo is also unique because of the relatively large "slump" in its crater rim, where a mass of material has dropped below the surface.

(New Ceres Images Show Bright Craters, NASA)

Challenger thrust out his aggressive chin until he was all beard and hat-rim.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A morphologic finding indicating the presence of bony trabeculae rimmed with osteoblasts.

(Osteoblastic Rimming Present, NCI Thesaurus)