Then I slipped out the card. No water leaks out because no air can come in; the rim is too close to the table for that.
Source: tatoeba (48111)
Rim
//ɹɪm//
Synonyms for "rim" (86 found)
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Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (43)
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10 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
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1 entrieshas context
6 entriesis a
6 entriesmanner of
3 entriesmeronym
1 entriespart of
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20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
Translations
83 translations across 26 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- перваз noun (edge around something)
- рамка noun (edge around something)
- ръб noun (edge around something)
- обрамчвам verb (form a rim)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 轮边 noun (edge around something)
Danish
3 entries- fælg noun (edge around something)
- indfatning noun (edge around something)
- rand noun (edge around something)
Dutch
2 entries- rand noun (edge around something)
- baffen verb (lick the anus)
Esperanto
1 entries- rando noun (edge around something)
Finnish
4 entries- kehä noun (edge around something)
- reuna noun (edge around something)
- reunus noun (edge around something)
- kiertyä verb (roll around a rim)
French
3 entries- bord noun (edge around something)
- jante noun (edge around something)
- bouffer le cul verb (lick the anus)
Galician
4 entries- aba noun (edge around something)
- anta noun (edge around something)
- arengo noun (edge around something)
- beira noun (edge around something)
German
2 entries- Rand noun (edge around something)
- |Kante noun (edge around something)
Hungarian
2 entries- karima noun (edge around something)
- káva noun (edge around something)
Icelandic
4 entries- barmur noun (edge around something)
- brún noun (edge around something)
- kantur noun (edge around something)
- rönd noun (edge around something)
Ingrian
2 entries- laita noun (edge around something)
- varo noun (edge around something)
Interlingua
2 entries- bordo noun (edge around something)
- orlo noun (edge around something)
Irish
2 entries- fonsa noun (edge around something)
- imeall noun (edge around something)
Italian
2 entries- bordo noun (edge around something)
- orlo noun (edge around something)
Macedonian
2 entries- ра́мка noun (edge around something)
- раб noun (edge around something)
Māori
4 entries- ngutu noun (edge around something)
- niao noun (edge around something)
- parengaru noun (edge around something)
- pārua noun (edge around something)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- innfatning noun (edge around something)
- kant noun (edge around something)
- rand noun (edge around something)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- kant noun (edge around something)
- rand noun (edge around something)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Kaunt noun (edge around something)
Portuguese
4 entries- aro noun (edge around something)
- borda noun (edge around something)
- orla noun (edge around something)
- orlar verb (form a rim)
Russian
3 entries- край noun (edge around something)
- о́бод noun (edge around something)
- ободо́к noun (edge around something)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- bile noun (edge around something)
- iomall noun (edge around something)
- oir noun (edge around something)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- gobela noun (edge around something)
- ivica noun (edge around something)
- naplatak noun (edge around something)
- obod noun (edge around something)
Spanish
3 entries- borde noun (edge around something)
- canto noun (edge around something)
- escarchar verb (coat the rim of a glass)
Swedish
3 entries- kant noun (edge around something)
- rand noun (edge around something)
- rimma verb (lick the anus)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
I enjoy sipping on a margarita with salt around the rim.
Source: tatoeba (62920)
My Latin teacher used to look down sternly on me over the rim of her glasses, but now I know it only had to do with the fact that she was wearing reading glasses and that she will have found it a nuisance taking them off all the time, so what looked like contempt towards us students might well and truly have been kindness.
Source: tatoeba (2588813)
Tom filled Mary's wine glass to the rim.
Source: tatoeba (2956722)
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