different between brim vs shore

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English brim, from Old English brim (“surf, flood, wave, sea, ocean, water, sea-edge, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *brim? (“turbulence, surge; surf, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *breman? (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rem-, *b?erem-, *b?rem(e)-, *breme- (“to hum, make a noise”). Cognate with Icelandic brim (“sea, surf”), Old English brymm, brym (“sea, waves”), Old English bremman (“to rage, roar”), Dutch brommen (“to hum, buzz”), German brummen (“to hum, drone”), Latin frem? (“roar, growl”, verb), Ancient Greek ????? (brém?, “roar, roar like the ocean”, verb).

Noun

brim (plural brims)

1. (obsolete) The sea; ocean; water; flood.

Derived terms

• brimsand

Etymology 2

From Middle English brim, brem, brimme (“margin, edge of a river, lake, or sea”), probably from Middle English brim (“sea, ocean, surf, shore”). See above. Cognate with Dutch berm (“bank, riverbank”), Bavarian Bräm (“border, stripe”), German Bräme, Brame (“border, edge”), Danish bræmme (“border, edge, brim”), Swedish bräm (“border, edge”), Icelandic barmur (“edge, verge, brink”). Related to berm.

Noun

brim (plural brims)

1. An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water).

   • The feet of the priest that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water.

   • 1819, "A Portrait", in Peter Bell

     A primrose by a river ' s brim

2. The topmost rim or lip of a container.
   • 1813, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Remorse

     Saw I that insect on this goblet's brim / I would remove it with an anxious pity.

3. A projecting rim, especially of a hat.

Derived terms

• brimful
• to the brim

Translations

Verb

brim (third-person singular simple present brims, present participle brimming, simple past and past participle brimmed)

1. (intransitive) To be full to overflowing.

   The room brimmed with people.

   • 2006 New York Times

     It was a hint of life in a place that still brims with memories of death, a reminder that even five years later, the attacks are not so very distant.
2. (transitive) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
   • Tennyson:

     Arrange the board and brim the glass.

Translations

Etymology 3

Either from breme, or directly from Old English bremman (“to roar, rage”) (though not attested in Middle English).

Verb

brim (third-person singular simple present brims, present participle brimming, simple past and past participle brimmed)

1. Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.

Etymology 4

See breme.

Adjective

brim (comparative more brim, superlative most brim)

1. (obsolete) Fierce; sharp; cold.

Anagrams

• IBMR, IRBM

Indonesian

Etymology

From English brim, from Middle English brim, brem, brimme (“margin, edge of a river, lake, or sea”), probably from Middle English brim (“sea, ocean, surf, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *brim? (“turbulence, surge; surf, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *breman? (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rem-, *b?erem-, *b?rem(e)-, *breme- (“to hum, make a noise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?br?m]
• Hyphenation: brim

Noun

brim (first-person possessive brimku, second-person possessive brimmu, third-person possessive brimnya)

1. brim: a projecting rim of a hat.

Further reading

• “brim” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brim/

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brim?.

Noun

brim n

1. (poetic) the edge of the sea or a body of water
2. (poetic) surf; the surface of the sea
3. (poetic) sea, ocean, water

Declension

Derived terms

• briml?þend

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brim?.

Noun

brim n

1. surf

Declension

References

• brim in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: shô, IPA^(key): /???/
• (General American) enPR: shôr, IPA^(key): /???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: sh?r?, IPA^(key): /?o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: sure (accents with the pour–poor merger); Shaw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English schore, from Old English *s?ora (attested as s?or- in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *skurô (“rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”). Possibly related to Old English s?ieran (“to cut”), which survives today as English shear.

Cognate with Middle Dutch scorre (“land washed by the sea”), Middle Low German schor (“shore, coast, headland”), Middle High German schorre ("rocky crag, high rocky shore"; > German Schorre, Schorren (“towering rock, crag”)), and Limburgish sjaor (“riverbank”). Maybe connected with Norwegian Bokmål skjær.

Noun

shore (plural shores)

1. Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.

   • the fruitful shore of muddy Nile
2. (from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port.

Usage notes

• Generally, only the largest of rivers, which are often estuaries, are said to have shores.
• Rivers and other flowing bodies of water are said to have banks.
• River bank(s) outnumbers River shore(s) about 200:3 at COCA.

Hyponyms

• (land adjoining a large body of water): beach, headland, coast

Derived terms

Related terms

• longshoreman
• shorage

Translations

Verb

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

1. (obsolete) To set on shore.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Dutch schooren (“to prop up, support”) and Middle Low German schore (“to shovel, sweep”). It is of uncertain origin, but has been found in some other Germanic languages. Compare Old Norse skorða (“piece of timber set up as a support”).

Noun

shore (plural shores)

1. A prop or strut supporting the weight or flooring above it.

   The shores stayed upright during the earthquake.

Verb

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

1. (transitive, without up) To provide with support.
2. (usually with up) To reinforce (something at risk of failure).

   My family shored me up after I failed the GED.

   The workers were shoring up the dock after part of it fell into the water.

Synonyms

• (without up): reinforce, strengthen, support, buttress
• (with up): prop up, bolster

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

See shear.

Verb

shore

1. simple past tense of shear

Etymology 4

Noun

shore (plural shores)

1. (Obsolete except in Hiberno-English) A sewer.

Etymology 5

Perhaps a form of score, or another form of sure, equivalent to assure.

Verb

shore (third-person singular simple present shores, present participle shoring, simple past and past participle shored)

1. (Scotland, archaic) To warn or threaten.
2. (Scotland, archaic) To offer.

References

Anagrams

• H-O-R-S-E, H.O.R.S.E., HORSE, Horse, RSeOH, Rohes, hoers, horse, hoser, shero, shoer