different between rim vs bound

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

• bownd (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English bound, bund (preterite) and bounden, bunden, ibunden, ?ebunden (past participle), from Old English bund- and bunden, ?ebunden respectively. See bind.

Verb

bound

1. simple past tense and past participle of bind

   I bound the splint to my leg.

   I had bound the splint with duct tape.

Adjective

bound (not comparable)

1. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).

2. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
3. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
4. (dated) Constipated; costive.
5. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
6. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.

Antonyms

• (logic: constrained by a quantifier): free

Hyponyms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bound, bownde, alternation (with -d partly for euphonic effect and partly by association with Etymology 1 above) of Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”).

Adjective

bound (comparative more bound, superlative most bound)

1. (obsolete) Ready, prepared.
2. Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

   Which way are you bound?

   Is that message bound for me?
3. (with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to

Derived terms

Related terms

• bound to
• I'll be bound

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English bounde, from Old French bunne, from Medieval Latin bodina, earlier butina (“a bound, limit”)

Noun

bound (plural bounds)

1. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.

   I reached the northern bound of my property, took a deep breath and walked on.

   Somewhere within these bounds you may find a buried treasure.

2. (mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English bounden, from the noun (see above).

Verb

bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded)

1. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
2. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 5

From Middle English *bounden (attested as bounten), from French bondir (“leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”); perhaps from Late Latin bombit?re, present active infinitive of bombit? (“hum, buzz”), frequentative verb, from Latin bombus (“a humming or buzzing”).

Noun

bound (plural bounds)

1. A sizeable jump, great leap.

   The deer crossed the stream in a single bound.

2. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
3. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.

   the bound of a ball

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

Derived terms

• by leaps and bounds

Translations

Verb

bound (third-person singular simple present bounds, present participle bounding, simple past and past participle bounded)

1. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.

   The rabbit bounded down the lane.

2. (transitive) To cause to leap.

   to bound a horse

   • , Act V, Scene II, page 93:

     […] Or if I might buffet for my Loue, or bound my Hor?e for her fauours, I could lay on like a Butcher, and fit like a Iack an Apes, neuer off.

3. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.

   a rubber ball bounds on the floor

4. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.

   to bound a ball on the floor

Derived terms

• rebound

Translations

Anagrams

• Dubon

Middle English

Noun

bound

1. Alternative form of band