Dictionary Entry
rim
rim is a 3-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.
- 2noun
The lower part of the abdomen.
- 3transitive verb
To furnish with a rim; to border.
- 4noun
the top edge of a vessel or other container
- 5noun
a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object
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- 6noun
the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached
- 7noun
(basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended
"the ball hit the rim and bounced off"
- 8noun
the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object
- 9verb
roll around the rim of
"the ball rimmed the basket"
- 10verb
furnish with a rim
"rim a hat"
- 11verb
run around the rim of
"Sugar rimmed the dessert plate"
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