different between rim vs bank

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima (“rim, edge, border, bank, coast”), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô (“edge, border”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *rem?- (“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”).

Noun

rim (plural rims)

1. An edge around something, especially when circular.
2. (automotive, cycling) A wheelrim.
3. (journalism) A semicircular copydesk.
   • 2004, John Russial, Strategic Copy Editing (page 130)

     A copy chief with poor people skills makes life miserable for copy editors on the rim; […]

   • 2009, Gaylon Eugene Murray, Effective Editing (page 7)

     On the rim are copy editors who edit stories for accuracy, brevity and clarity.

Derived terms

• Pacific Rim

Translations

See also

• (wheel rim): mag wheel, alloy wheel

Verb

rim (third-person singular simple present rims, present participle rimming, simple past and past participle rimmed) (transitive)

1. To form a rim on.
2. (transitive) To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.

3. (transitive or intransitive, of a ball) To roll around a rim.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rim, rym, ryme, reme, from Old English r?oma (“membrane, ligament”), from Proto-West Germanic *reum?.

Noun

rim (plural rims)

1. (Britain dialectal) A membrane.
2. (Britain dialectal or obsolete) The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly.

Etymology 3

From a variation of ream.

Verb

rim (third-person singular simple present rims, present participle rimming, simple past and past participle rimmed)

1. (slang) To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act.
   • 2008, Lexy Harper, Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (Like Me), page 216

     When she started thrusting her hips back against his finger, he turned her over and rimmed her asshole as he fingered her clit.

Translations

Anagrams

• IRM, MIR, MRI, Mir, RMI, miR, mir

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrím, from Proto-Germanic *hr?m?.

Noun

rim c (singular definite rimen, not used in plural form)

1. hoarfrost, rime

Etymology 2

From late Old Norse rím, from Middle Low German rim, from French rime (“rhyme”).

Noun

rim n (singular definite rimet, plural indefinite rim)

1. rhyme

Inflection

Further reading

• rim on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 3

See rime.

Verb

rim

1. imperative of rime

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r?m]
• Hyphenation: rim

Etymology 1

From Dutch riem, from Middle Dutch rieme, from Old French raime, rayme (“ream”), from Arabic ???????? (rizma, “bundle”).

Noun

rim (first-person possessive rimku, second-person possessive rimmu, third-person possessive rimnya)

1. ream, a bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.

Etymology 2

From Dutch riem, from Middle Dutch rieme, from Old Dutch *riomo, from Proto-West Germanic *reum?.

Noun

rim (first-person possessive rimku, second-person possessive rimmu, third-person possessive rimnya)

1. (colloquial) leather belt.

Further reading

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

Mizo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rim/

Noun

rim

1. smell
2. odour

Adverb

rim

1. hard

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

• rimb

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (rum?). For rimb, compare the probably related Old Armenian ????? (?umb).

Noun

r?im ?

1. spear, lance, javelin
2. unit of measure the length of a spear

Descendants

• ? Armenian: ??? (??m) (Van, Moks, Shatakh)

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rím and (Old?) French rime

Noun

rim n (definite singular rimet, indefinite plural rim, definite plural rima or rimene)

1. a rhyme

Derived terms

• barnerim

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hrím

Noun

rim m (definite singular rimen, uncountable)
rim n (definite singular rimet, uncountable)

1. rime (frost)

Derived terms

• rimfrost

References

• “rim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?m/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse rím, from Old French rime.

Noun

rim n (definite singular rimet, indefinite plural rim, definite plural rima)

1. a rhyme

Derived terms

• barnerim

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hrím. Akin to English rime.

Noun

rim n (definite singular rimet, uncountable)

1. rime (frost)

Derived terms

• rimfrost

References

• “rim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *r?m? (“number, count, series”), from Proto-Indo-European *re(i)- (“to reason, count”). Akin to Old Frisian r?m, Old Saxon -r?m, Old High German r?m, Icelandic rím.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?m/

Noun

r?m n

1. number

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: rime, rhyme

Portuguese

Etymology

Via Old Portuguese rin, from Latin r?n, from Proto-Italic *hr?n, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *g??ren- (“an internal part of the body”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /???/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): [???]
• Hyphenation: rim

Noun

rim m (plural rins)

1. kidney
2. (in the plural) small of the back

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse rím, from Proto-Germanic *r?m?.

Noun

rim n

1. rhyme

Declension

See also

• rimma

Volapük

Noun

rim (nominative plural rims)

1. rhyme

Declension

See also

• rimod

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rí?m] (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -í?m

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hrím, from Proto-Germanic *hr?m?.

Noun

rim n

1. frost, hoarfrost

Etymology 2

From Old Norse rím, from Proto-Germanic *r?m?.

Noun

rim n

1. story, poem, saga
2. rumour

Related terms

• riim

Synonyms

• (story, saga) sögu

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *k.tem? (“full”). Cognate with Thai ???? (dtem), Lao ???? (tem), Northern Thai ????, Lü ??? (?iim), Shan ???? (t?m), Nong Zhuang daem.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?im??/
• Tone numbers: rim¹
• Hyphenation: rim

Adjective

rim (old orthography rim)

1. full

English

Alternative forms

• banck, bancke, banke (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ?k/
• Rhymes: -æ?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Old Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench.

Noun

bank (countable and uncountable, plural banks)

1. (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
2. (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
3. (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.

   Synonyms: banker, banque

4. (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
   • a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Of Usury

     Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.

5. (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
6. (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
7. (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
8. (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

9. (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Bislama: bang

Borrowings

Some may be via other European languages.

Translations

Verb

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

1. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.

2. (transitive) To put into a bank.

3. (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

Derived terms

• bankable
• banked
• banker
• banking
• bank on

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bank, from Old English h?banca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).

Noun

bank (plural banks)

2. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
   • 2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian, 16 September 2014:

     Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.

3. (nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).

   the banks of Newfoundland

4. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
5. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
6. (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
7. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.

   The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.

8. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
9. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
10. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.

    Ores are brought to bank.

Derived terms

Related terms

• bench

Translations

Verb

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

1. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
3. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
4. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.

5. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
6. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

   • Aristoma?chus would haue them to be stript from their leaues in winter, & in any hand to be banked well about, that the water stand not there in any hollow furrow or hole lower than the other ground

7. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
8. (rail transport, Britain) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

Derived terms

• bank-and-turn indicator, turn-and-bank indicator

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English bank (“bank”), banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc (“bench”).

Noun

bank (plural banks)

1. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
2. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
3. (computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
4. (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

Synonyms

• (row or panel of items): (row) line, rank, tier; (panel) block, grid, panel

Derived terms

• double-bank
• filter bank, filterbank
• optical bank
• phone bank

Translations

Verb

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

1. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.

Etymology 4

Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench.

Noun

bank (plural banks)

1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
   • 1658, Edmund Waller, he Passion of Dido for Æneas

     Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.

2. A bench or seat for judges in court.
3. The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

4. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
5. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

6. (uncountable) slang for money

Derived terms

• Bank Royal
• Common Bank

Related terms

• banc
• banquette
• frank bank

References

• “bank”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Knab, knab, nabk

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?k/

Etymology 1

From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)

1. bench, couch

Derived terms

• onder stoele of banke wegsteek
• toonbank

Etymology 2

From Dutch bank, from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

bank (plural banke, diminutive bankie)

1. bank (financial institution)
2. (games, gambling) bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling

Verb

bank (present bank, present participle bankende, past participle gebank)

1. (transitive) to deposit, to bank
2. (intransitive) to bank

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from French banque.

Noun

bank (definite accusative bank?, plural banklar)

1. bank (financial institution)

Declension

Further reading

• “bank” in Obastan.com.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from French banque

Noun

bank

1. bank (financial institution)

Declension

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”).

Noun

bank c (singular definite banken, plural indefinite banker)

1. bank (financial institution, branch office, controller of a game, a safe and guaranteed place of storage)

Declension

Derived terms

• bankanvisning
• bankier
• bankør

Descendants

• ? Faroese: banki
• ? Greenlandic: banki
• ? Icelandic: banki

Etymology 2

From German Bank (“bench”).

Noun

bank c

1. only used in certain expressions

Derived terms

• over en bank

Noun

bank n (singular definite banket, plural indefinite bank)

1. knock (an abrupt rapping sound)
2. (pl) a beating

Declension

Synonyms

• (beating): tæsk, tæv

Verb

bank

1. imperative of banke

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??k/
• Hyphenation: bank
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

1. bench
2. (Netherlands) couch, sofa

   Synonym: sofa

3. place where seashells are found
4. shallow part of the sea near the coast

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bank
• ? Sranan Tongo: bangi
  • ? Aukan: bangi
  • ? Caribbean Hindustani: bángi
  • ? Saramaccan: bángi

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz, related to Etymology 1 above.

Noun

bank f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

1. A bank (financial institution)
2. (games, gambling) The bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling
3. A banknote, especially 100 Dutch guilders (also in the diminutives bankie or bankje.)
4. A bank, collection and/or repository.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bank
• ? Aukan: banku
• ? Caribbean Hindustani: bánk
• ? Malay: bank
  • Indonesian: bank
  • ? Central Dusun: bank
  • ? Central Melanau: bank
  • ? Makasar: bank
  • ? Javanese: bang
  • ? Sundanese: bank
• ? Saramaccan: bánku
• ? Sranan Tongo: bangi
• ? West Frisian: bank
• ? Dutch: bankje, bankie (diminutive)
  • ? Sranan Tongo: barki
    • ? Dutch: barkie

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Bank, from Italian banca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b??k]
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

bank (plural bankok)

1. bank (financial institution)

   Synonym: pénzintézet

2. (gambling) bank (the sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• bank in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• bank in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Icelandic

Etymology

Back-formation from banka (“to knock, to beat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pau??k/
• Rhymes: -au??k

Noun

bank n (genitive singular banks, no plural)

1. knock, blow

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch bank (“bank”), from Middle Dutch banc, from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz. Doublet of bangku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Hyphenation: bank
• Homophone: bang

Noun

bank

1. bank:
   1. an institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
   2. a safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

Derived terms

• perbankan

Compounds

Further reading

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

Maltese

Etymology

From French banque

Pronunciation

Noun

bank m (plural banek)

1. bank

Noun

bank m (plural bankijiet)

1. bench

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English h?banca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).

Noun

bank (plural banks)

1. the bank of a river or lake

Descendants

• English: bank

References

• “bank(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??k/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca

Noun

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)

1. a bank (financial institution)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From the verb banke

Noun

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)

1. a beat, knock, throb

Derived terms

• hjertebank

Etymology 3

Verb

bank

1. imperative of banke

References

• “bank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “bank_4” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “bank_5” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??k/

Noun

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural bankar, definite plural bankane)

1. a bank (financial institution)

Derived terms

References

• “bank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Alternative forms

• panch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *banki.

Noun

bank f

1. bench

Descendants

• Middle High German: banc, bank
  • German: Bank
    • ? Danish: bank
    • ? Norwegian Bokmål: bank
  • Luxembourgish: Bänk
  • Pennsylvania German: Bank
• ? Old French: banc
  • French: banc (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: banc
  • ? Middle English: bank, banke
    • English: bank
  • ? Galician: banco
  • ? Spanish: banco (see there for further descendants)
• ? Old Italian: banco, banca
  • Italian: banco, banca (see there for further descendants)
    • ? Italian: banchetto (see there for further descendants)
  • ? Byzantine Greek: ?????? (pánkos)
    • Greek: ?????? (págkos)
  • ? Middle French: banque (see there for further descendants)
  • ? German: Bank (see there for further descendants)
• ? Medieval Latin: bancus, banca

Polish

Etymology

From Italian banco via German Bank.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?k/

Noun

bank m inan

1. bank

Declension

Derived terms

• bankowy
• bankowo??
• bankier

Descendants

• ? Belarusian: bank (bank)
• ? Ukrainian: ???? (bank)

References

Further reading

• bank in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Slovene

Noun

bánk

1. inflection of bánka:
   1. genitive dual
   2. genitive plural

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba??k/

Etymology

From Dutch bank, German Bank or Low German bank, all from Italian banco, from Old High German banc, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

bank c

1. a bank (financial institution, branch of such an institution)
2. a bank (place of storage)
3. a bank (of a river of lake)
4. a sandbank

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Elfdalian: baunka
• ? Finnish: pankki

References

• bank in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French banc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??k/
• Hyphenation: bank

Noun

bank (definite accusative bank?, plural banklar)

1. bench (long seat)

Declension

Volapük

Noun

bank (nominative plural banks)

1. bank (financial institution)

Declension