brim

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water).
2. The topmost rim or lip of a container.
3. A projecting rim, especially of a hat.

Verb

1. To be full to overflowing.
2. To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.

Verb

Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.

Adj

Fierce; sharp; cold.

Concepts

bord

lisière

côté

jante

🛞

lèvre

limite

rivage

🏦

rive

🏦

marge

berge

🏦

rebord

bordure

flanc

Synonymes

edge

rim

brink

border

fringe

margin

lip

verge

side

overflow

ledge

brow

bank

🏦

edging

coast

limb

marge

mouth

end

🔚

extremity

beach

🏖️

perimeter

periphery

tip

rand

seashore

hem

shore

seaside

selvage

slop

threshold

tour

turn

twirl

virgin

fill to the brim

redfish

rudder fish

selvedge

top up

spokesman of chief

fully loaded

edge water

arris

Bermuda sea chub

black snapper

blear-eyed snapper

brim snapper

filled to the brim

Bermuda chub

red snapper

queen snapper

fringe water

night snapper

tropical sheephead

hoop rim

abutment

coil ring

boil over

bookcase

bream

breathe

bubble over

butt

circuit

contour

crawl

detour

disk

exude

fill

flange

flap

foot

🦶

give off

latus

limbus

neb

opening

peak

point

porch

rime

round

run over

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bɹɪm/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: brim

Appartenant à néerlandais: berm

Appartenant à bavarois: Bräm

Appartenant à allemand: Bräme

Appartenant à danois: bræmme

Appartenant à suédois: bräm

Appartenant à islandais: barmur

Hérité de ancien anglais: bremman

In summary

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.