rim

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   (basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended

   the ball hit the rim and bounced off

2. 2
   verb

   roll around the rim of

   the ball rimmed the basket

3. 3
   verb

   furnish with a rim

   rim a hat

4. 4
   verb

   run around the rim of

   Sugar rimmed the dessert plate

5. 5
   noun

   An edge around something, especially when circular.

   That's... our galaxy. We're beyond the rim.

6. 6
   noun

   A wheelrim.

   About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.

7. 7
   noun

   A semicircular copydesk.

   COPY READER — Journeyman, experienced makeup, now slot man on metropolitan midwest daily. Will travel for good rim job on large paper.

8. 8
   verb

   To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.

   Palm trees rim the beach.

Etymology

From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima (“rim, edge, border, bank, coast”), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô (“edge, border”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *remə- (“to rest, support, be based”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rim (“plank, wooden cross, trellis”), Old Saxon rimi (“edge; border; trim”), Icelandic rimi (“a strip of land”).