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perimeter
English
Etymology
Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek perimetros, based on peri- ‘around’ + metron ‘measure’. From Ancient Greek ?????????? (perímetros).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: p?r?m'?t?r, IPA(key): /p????m?t?(?)/
- Rhymes: -?m?t?(?)
Noun
perimeter (plural perimeters)
- (mathematics) The sum of the distance of all the lengths of the sides of an object.
- (mathematics) The length of such a boundary.
- The outer limits of an area. See synonyms at circumference.
- A fortified strip or boundary usually protecting a military position.
- An instrument for determining the extent and shape of the field of vision.
Synonyms
- (mathematics): circumference
Translations
Synonyms
- (given grounds): premises
Related terms
- perimeter fence
- perimetric, perimetrical
- perimetrically
Anagrams
- peritreme
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brim
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)
- (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)
- 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
- 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.
- 1813, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Remorse
- 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)
- (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.
- (transitive) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
- Tennyson:
- Arrange the board and brim the glass.
- Tennyson:
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)
- Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.
Etymology 4
See breme.
Adjective
brim (comparative more brim, superlative most brim)
- (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)
- 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
- (poetic) the edge of the sea or a body of water
- (poetic) surf; the surface of the sea
- (poetic) sea, ocean, water
Declension
Derived terms
- briml?þend
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *brim?.
Noun
brim n
- surf
Declension
References
- brim in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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