Meaning of "rim" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RIM

Old English rima; related to Old Saxon rimi, Old Norse rimi ridge.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF RIM

rim  [rɪm]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RIM

Rim is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb rim in English.

WHAT DOES RIM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rim

Rim may refer to: ▪ Rim, the sharp circular edge which surrounds the coin design ▪ Rim, the part of a crater that extends above the height of the local surface ▪ Rim, a projection machined into the bottom of a firearms cartridge ▪ Rim, by Alexander Besher ▪ Rim, the outer part of a wheel on which the tire is mounted ▪ Rim, part of equipment for basketball ▪ Breakaway rim, a specialized rim capable of sustaining forceful dunks ▪ Rim, Nepal ▪ Rim, Črnomelj, a village in the Municipality of Črnomelj, southeastern Slovenia ▪ Rim, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, a village near Vrbovsko, Croatia ▪ Rim, Istria County, a village near Buzet, Croatia RIM may stand for: ▪ Royal Indian Marine, the name of the British colonial navy of India from 1892 to 1934 ▪ BlackBerry, Formerly known as Research In Motion, a Canadian wireless-device company ▪ Recording Industry Association of Malaysia ▪ Red Island Minerals, Western Australia-based...

Definition of rim in the English dictionary

The first definition of rim in the dictionary is the raised edge of an object, esp of something more or less circular such as a cup or crater. Other definition of rim is the peripheral part of a wheel, to which the tyre is attached. Rim is also the hoop from which the net is suspended.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO RIM

PRESENT

Present

I rim

you rim

he/she/it rims

we rim

you rim

they rim

Present continuous

I am rimming

you are rimming

he/she/it is rimming

we are rimming

you are rimming

they are rimming

Present perfect

I have rimmed

you have rimmed

he/she/it has rimmed

we have rimmed

you have rimmed

they have rimmed

Present perfect continuous

I have been rimming

you have been rimming

he/she/it has been rimming

we have been rimming

you have been rimming

they have been rimming

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I rimmed

you rimmed

he/she/it rimmed

we rimmed

you rimmed

they rimmed

Past continuous

I was rimming

you were rimming

he/she/it was rimming

we were rimming

you were rimming

they were rimming

Past perfect

I had rimmed

you had rimmed

he/she/it had rimmed

we had rimmed

you had rimmed

they had rimmed

Past perfect continuous

I had been rimming

you had been rimming

he/she/it had been rimming

we had been rimming

you had been rimming

they had been rimming

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will rim

you will rim

he/she/it will rim

we will rim

you will rim

they will rim

Future continuous

I will be rimming

you will be rimming

he/she/it will be rimming

we will be rimming

you will be rimming

they will be rimming

Future perfect

I will have rimmed

you will have rimmed

he/she/it will have rimmed

we will have rimmed

you will have rimmed

they will have rimmed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been rimming

you will have been rimming

he/she/it will have been rimming

we will have been rimming

you will have been rimming

they will have been rimming

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would rim

you would rim

he/she/it would rim

we would rim

you would rim

they would rim

Conditional continuous

I would be rimming

you would be rimming

he/she/it would be rimming

we would be rimming

you would be rimming

they would be rimming

Conditional perfect

I would have rim

you would have rim

he/she/it would have rim

we would have rim

you would have rim

they would have rim

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been rimming

you would have been rimming

he/she/it would have been rimming

we would have been rimming

you would have been rimming

they would have been rimming

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you rim
we let´s rim
you rim

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to rim

Past participle

rimmed

Present Participle

rimming

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «RIM»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «rim» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of rim

border · bound · boundary · brim · brink · circumference · edge · extremity · flange · lip · margin · perimeter · periphery · trim · verge

TRANSLATION OF RIM

Find out the translation of rim to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of rim from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rim» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 边缘
• Translator English - Spanish: borde
• English: rim
• Translator English - Hindi: रिम
• Translator English - Arabic: حَافَّة
• Translator English - Russian: обод
• Translator English - Portuguese: borda
• Translator English - Bengali: প্রাস্ত
• Translator English - French: bord
• Translator English - Malay: Rim
• Translator English - German: Rand
• Translator English - Japanese: 縁
• Translator English - Korean: 테두리
• Translator English - Javanese: Rim
• Translator English - Vietnamese: vành
• Translator English - Tamil: விளிம்பு
• Translator English - Marathi: रिम
• Translator English - Turkish: jant
• Translator English - Italian: bordo
• Translator English - Polish: obręcz
• Translator English - Ukrainian: обідок
• Translator English - Romanian: cadru
• Translator English - Greek: ζάντα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: rand
• Translator English - Swedish: kant
• Translator English - Norwegian: kant

7 QUOTES WITH «RIM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rim.

1

James Cameron

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

2

Willie Geist

I'm 6-foot-4. If my life depended on it, I could still dunk a basketball. Then I would need assistance from a first responder to get down from the rim.

3

Jeremy Lin

I'm a playmaker. I'm always attacking the rim and have somewhat of a reckless style. I try to be everywhere at once.

4

Johnny Miller

In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

5

Boris Pasternak

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

6

Buddy Rich

I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.

7

Jack Schmitt

It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RIM»

Discover the use of rim in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rim and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

What is in a Rim?: Critical Perspectives on the Pacific ...

This work includes ideas and perspectives for those seeking deeper understanding of the concepts and historical, political, economic, and social force that constitute the Pacific Rim.

Arif Dirlik, 1998

Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero (Legendary Comics)

Witten by Pacific Rim screenwriter himself, Travis Beacham, and with del Toro's hands-on supervision, this volume is beautifully illustrated by Sean Chen, Yvel Guichet, and Pericles Junior; inks by Steve Bird and Mark McKenna; and fully ...

‎2013

Pacific Rim Modernisms

Pacific Rim Modernisms explores the complex ways that writers, artists, and intellectuals of the Pacific Rim have contributed to modernist culture, literature, and identity.

Mary Ann Gillies, Helen Sword, Steven G. Yao, 2009

Teaching Composition Around the Pacific Rim: Politics and ...

Considers both political and pedagogical issues related to the teaching of English composition to Asian/Pacific students.

Mark Newell Brock, Larry Walters, 1992

Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West

Living Downwind in the West Chip Ward. Reagan Republicans were elected on the premise that government didn't work and, once in office, they set out to prove it. That is, their regime worked quite well for some and badly for most. If you had ...

Chip Ward, 2001

Pacific Rim: Man, Machines and Monsters

This lavish book chronicles the production of the film with concept art, photography, and cast and crew commentary.

David S. Cohen, Guillermo del Toro, 2013

Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and ...

Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State Lesley Gill. Women really are too numerous to name individually, but to all of them I am deeply grateful. I am particularly indebted to Juan Carlos Balderas, who was ...

Lesley Gill, 2013

Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim: Creating Countercultural ...

This book will fascinate literary and Asian studies scholars as well as the general reader interested in the Beat movement and multicultural influences on poetry.

Timothy Gray, 2006

APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism

Examines APEC's establishment, the paths it has followed, and the causes of its failures.

John Ravenhill, 2001

Asia-Pacific: New Geographies of the Pacific Rim

This book examines the increasing integration of Pacific Rim countries, especially in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and the creation of 'new geographies'. The interaction of local and global forces is examined.

Raymond Frederick Watters, Terence Gary McGee, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RIM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rim is used in the context of the following news items.

Rim Fire: Calif. wildfire now 3rd largest in state, largest in Yosemite …

The Rim Fire's southeast flank in Yosemite National Park is expected to remain active where unburned fuels remain between containment lines and the fire. «89.3 KPCC, Sep 13»

How California's Rim Fire Grew So Big

During Labor Day weekend, firefighters saved some of Yosemite National Park's most popular spots from California's raging Rim Fire. Two giant sequoia groves ... «LiveScience.com, Sep 13»

Rim Fire: Prisoners Helping to Battle Massive Blaze

On their third day on the job fighting the California Rim Fire, Alan Jackson and his team were near Groveland, a small town just outside Yosemite National Park ... «National Geographic, Aug 13»

“Pacific Rim,” “Only God Forgives,” and “The Act of Killing.”

It does to Guillermo del Toro, whose new film, “Pacific Rim,” pays homage to the humongous. So what if the script is feeble, the plot is perforated, and the ... «New Yorker, Jul 13»

We Killed This City

If you give him a pile of money to make enormous robots fight enormous monsters at the end of civilization, he will work to make Pacific Rim a movie that makes ... «Grantland, Jul 13»

Interactive map: How the Rim fire in Yosemite grew

Note: This map is based on official fire mapping sources that show rough footprints of actively burning wildfires. Perimeter updates take at least several hours to ... «Los Angeles Times, Jun 13»

Lenovo Says RIM Bid Among Options to Boost Mobile Unit

“We are looking at all opportunities -- RIM and many others,” Chief Financial Officer Wong Wai Ming said yesterday in an interview at the World Economic ... «Bloomberg, Jan 13»

RIM's CIO Will Retire At The End Of The Year

RIM's Chief Information Officer, Robin Bienfait, will retire at the end of this year, the company announced today. Bienfait has been with the company for six years. «Business Insider, Dec 12»

BlackBerry maker RIM loses patent dispute with Nokia

The Swedish arbitrator ruled RIM was not entitled to make or sell mobile devices ... "RIM is liable to pay royalties and damages to Nokia for its ... sales of any ... «Reuters, Nov 12»

Flatlining user base spells end of RIM's growth story

RIM is in the midst of a long-running slump in sales, but despite that, it has still managed to sell enough devices to keep adding to the BlackBerry user base, ... «Globe and Mail, Sep 12»