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brim

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noun

the upper edge of anything hollow; rim; brink: the brim of a cup.

a projecting edge: the brim of a hat.

margin.

verb (used without object)

to be full to the brim.

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verb (used with object)

to fill to the brim.

Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English brimme brink, rim (earlier, shore, bank); apparently akin to Middle High German brem, (German Bräme), Old Norse barmr rim, edge

Related forms

brim·less, adjective

brim·ming·ly, adverb

un·brim·ming, adjective

Synonyms
1. See rim.

Example Sentences

If you wear it straight with the brim forward, up or down, it's more of a clean-cut look.

Buffalo officials brim with ideas, and some are being implemented.

Hook and loop tabs allows sides of brim to be flipped up as the weather changes.

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If you wear it straight with the brim forward, up or down, it's more of a clean-cut look.

Buffalo officials brim with ideas, and some are being implemented.

Hook and loop tabs allows sides of brim to be flipped up as the weather changes.

Dead leaves drift on the green, cloudy water that's nearly to the brim of the six-million-gallon open concrete reservoir.

Effect is that of a sombrero with a drooping brim add to my plant list.

Bendel's has a black straw number with a round crown and large brim decorated with beige soutache braid.

Nauru resembles an enormous moth-eaten fedora: a ghastly grey mound of rock surrounded by a narrow green brim of vegetation.

And governments can't simply fill reservoirs to the brim.

Called a wind lens, it encircles the turbine blades with a brim.

Effect is that of a sombrero with a drooping brim more add to my plant list enlarge.

One of these hats has the crown covered with brick red velvet and the brim with cloth of the same color.

Basins brim with live fish and sea turtles that clients can kill at home or have slaughtered on the spot.

Rooms brim with tricolor savoir faire in manor house or garden wing amid arbors and walled gardens.

If our local grocery wasn't stocked to the brim with factory farmed food.

The brim represents the days of big losses or gains.

The statistics brim with horrible figures, all unreliable and misleading.

Pristine waters brim with tuna and dolphins in hot pursuit of clouds of fish.

Flying in coach is tough enough these days with airlines cutting back on services and with planes packed to the brim.

Overnight, the nation's business heroes have become villains: the newspapers brim with tales of wicked bosses and wronged workers.

The woks brim with char kway teow, fish bee hoon, and rojak.

If you fill a cup to its brim eventually a single drop will cause it to overflow.

The large brim provides plenty of sun protection, the top part is made of a light weight fabric and adjustable at the back.

Not to be outdone, the forested valleys below brim in season with wildflowers and abundant wildlife.

The oceans brim with millions of different sea creatures.

Our original handcrocheted soft brim beanie made to be worn slightly back on the head.

The bible is full to the brim of innaccuracies and contradictions are downright oppresive teaching.

The brim is longer in the back to keep rain out of your collar.

Many of the city's newspapers and magazines brim with political and intellectual debate.

Meanwhile, my relaxed coworker had filled his to the brim without missing an eligible cherry-or a note in his nonstop serenade.

These hats are available in every possible combination of crown height, brim width and size.

Other styles include a toast-colored basket- weave garden hat with a stenciled brim and a veiled safari hat.

Not with aces up your sleeve or in your hat brim could you achieve a more thoroughly stacked deck.

The mayor beamed below the brim of a tall chef's hat.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun, plural (especially collectively) brim, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) brims.

Southern U.S. bream¹ (def. 4).

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World English Dictionary

bream or (Austral) brim¹ (briːm, brɪm)

—n , pl bream, brim
1.	any of several Eurasian freshwater cyprinid fishes of the genus Abramis, esp A. brama, having a deep compressed body covered with silvery scales
2.	white bream, silver bream a similar cyprinid, Blicca bjoerkna
3.	short for sea bream
4.	(Austral) any of various marine fishes

[C14: from Old French bresme, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German brahsema; perhaps related to brehan to glitter]

brim or (Austral) brim¹

—n

[C14: from Old French bresme, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German brahsema; perhaps related to brehan to glitter]

brim (brɪm)

—n
1.	the upper rim of a vessel: the brim of a cup
2.	a projecting rim or edge: the brim of a hat
3.	the brink or edge of something

—vb , brims, brimming, brimmed
4.	to fill or be full to the brim: eyes brimming with tears

[C13: from Middle High German brem, probably from Old Norse barmr; see berm]

'brimless

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

brim

c.1200, brymme "edge of the sea," of obscure origin, perhaps akin to O.N. barmr "rim, brim," probably related to Ger. bräme "margin, border, fringe," from PIE *bhrem- "point, spike, edge." (O.E. brim meant "sea, surf," and probably was from the Gmc. stem brem- "to roar, rage.") Extended by 1520s

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to cups, basins, hats.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

brim (brĭm)
n.
The rim of the upper opening of the pelvis.

Slang Dictionary

brim definition

n.
a hat. : Man, that is one fine brim you got.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

brim

see filled to the brim.

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