Definitions for RIM

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RIM rim

Spelling: [rim]

IPA: /rɪm/

Rim is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in RIM (imr).

Definitions for RIM

noun

1. the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
2. any edge, margin, or frame added to or around a central object or area.
3. the outer circle of a wheel, attached to the hub by spokes.
4. a circular strip of metal forming the connection between an automobile wheel and tire, either permanently attached to or removable from the wheel.
5. a drive wheel or flywheel, as on a spinning mule.
6. Basketball. the metal ring from which the net is suspended to form the basket.
7. Journalism. the outer edge of a usually U -shaped copy desk, occupied by the copyreaders. Compare slot1 (def 5b).
8. Metallurgy. (in an ingot) an outer layer of metal having a composition different from that of the center.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a rim, border, or margin.
2. (of a golf ball or putt) to roll around the edge of (a hole) but not go in.
3. Basketball. (of a basketball) to roll around (the rim of the basket) and not go in.
4. to coat or encrust the rim of (a glass):

Origin of RIM

before 1150; Middle English; Old English -rima (in compounds); cognate with Old Norse rimi raised strip of land, ridge

Examples for RIM

The laboratory was on the Northern rim of the field, a ten-minute drive from the auditorium.

The ball of red fire in the west was half below the rim of the distant peak.

And almost immediately the rim of the sun showed above the horizon.

Pour the batter over the top to the rim (reserve any extra).

Odds are, you expected Jackson to swish all three, but first freebie dribbled off the front of the rim and suddenly, hope renewed!

He pressed on up to the rim of the crater and lost no time in the descent on the other side.

You still have to get a ball through a rim - even if a peach basket bottom no longer prevents it from dropping to the ground.

We stood now on the rim of the crater, looking straight into the inferno.

Adding a rim protector aside from the 36-year-old Birdman would certainly be nice too.

He had, after all, already learned just how much trouble that could get him into—rim shot.