different between visor vs brim

English

Alternative forms

• vizor

Etymology

From Middle English viser, from Anglo-Norman viser and Old French visiere.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?va?z?/
• Rhymes: -a?z?(?)

Noun

visor (plural visors)

1. A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.
2. A mask for the face.
   • 1608, William Shakspeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act IV, Scene IV, line 44.

     No visor does become black villainy
     So well as soft and tender flattery.

3. The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.

Related terms

• vizard

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From vide? (“to see, look; watch, observe”), via the radical of its supine v?sum +? -tor, from Proto-Italic *wid?? (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i?.sor/, [?u?i?s??r]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /??i?.sor/, [??i?sor]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.sor/, [?vi?s??r]

Noun

v?sor m (genitive v?s?ris); third declension

1. one who sees, looks at, watches; a seer, viewer, watcher
2. one who scouts, explores; one who performs reconnaissance; a scout

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

v?sor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of v?s? (“to view, look into, stare at; go see, visit”)

References

• visor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• visor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1684
• visor in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, page 3519

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

visor f

1. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of visa
2. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of vise

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi?so?/, [bi?so?]

Noun

visor m (plural visores)

1. visor

Swedish

Noun

visor

1. indefinite plural of visa

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