Brim

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  • noun. The uppermost edge of a hollow container or natural basin.
  • noun. A projecting rim or edge, especially around the bottom of a hat.
  • noun. Full capacity.
  • intransitive verb. To be full to the brim, often to overflowing.
  • intransitive verb. To be abundantly filled or supplied.
  • intransitive verb. To fill to the brim.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The sea; ocean; water; flood.
  • noun. A brink, edge, or margin; more especially, the line of junction between a body of water and its bank, or between the bank and the adjoining level: as, to descend to the brim of a lake; the river is full to the brim.
  • noun. The upper edge of anything hollow: as, the brim of a cup.
  • noun. A projecting edge, border, or rim round anything hollow: as, the brim of a hat.
  • To be in heat, as a boar or sow.
  • To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
  • To be full to the brim: as, a brimming glass.
  • To coast along near; skirt.
  • To brim over, to run over the brim; overflow: often used in a figurative sense.
  • noun. The forehead.
  • noun. A fish of the family Centrarchidæ, the long-eared sunfish, Lepomis auritus.
  • Famous; celebrated; well known; notorious.
  • Violent; fierce; terrible; sharp.
  • Strong; powerful.
  • Sharp; acute.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.
  • noun. The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border.
  • noun. The rim of a hat.
  • intransitive verb. To be full to the brim.
  • intransitive verb. to be so full that some of the contents flows over the brim; as, a cup brimming over with wine; a man brimming over with fun.
  • transitive verb. To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
  • adjective. Fierce; sharp; cold. See breme.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The sea; ocean; water; flood.
  • noun. an edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water)
  • noun. the topmost rim or lip of a container
  • noun. a projecting rim, especially of a hat
  • verb. to be full to overflowing
  • verb. Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.
  • adjective. fierce; sharp; cold
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. be completely full
  • noun. the top edge of a vessel or other container
  • verb. fill as much as possible
  • noun. a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat
  • Word Usage
    "Ensure that the width of the lower brim is not too broad as this would direct most of the light just downwards onto the table and that the lower brim width will define the light distribution pattern."
    cross-reference
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    feature  fill  fill up  have  make full  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Grim  Grimm  Him  Im  Jim  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cape  collar  ribbon  rim  slipper  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bank  board  border  border  bordure  
    variant
    breme  brimmed  brimming  
    verb-form
    brimmed  brimming  brims