BRIM (brimmed, brimming)

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Irregular inflected forms: brimmed    , brimming   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does brim mean? 

• BRIM (noun)
  The noun BRIM has 2 senses:

1. the top edge of a vessel or other container

2. a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat

  Familiarity information: BRIM used as a noun is rare.

• BRIM (verb)
  The verb BRIM has 2 senses:

1. be completely full

2. fill as much as possible

  Familiarity information: BRIM used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRIM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The top edge of a vessel or other container

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

brim; lip; rim

Hypernyms ("brim" is a kind of...):

edge (a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brim"):

collar; shoe collar (the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot)

Holonyms ("brim" is a part of...):

vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))

Derivation:

brim (fill as much as possible)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("brim" is a kind of...):

projection (any structure that branches out from a central support)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brim"):

bill; eyeshade; peak; visor; vizor (a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes)

snap brim (a brim that can be turned up and down on opposite sides)

Holonyms ("brim" is a part of...):

chapeau; hat; lid (headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim)

• BRIM (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they brim    ... he / she / it brims   
Past simple: brimmed   
Past participle: brimmed   
-ing form: brimming   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be completely full

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

His eyes brimmed with tears

Hypernyms (to "brim" is one way to...):

feature; have (have as a feature)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fill as much as possible

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

brim a cup to good fellowship

Hypernyms (to "brim" is one way to...):

fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

brim (the top edge of a vessel or other container)

 Context examples 

You will also be highly creative this month, for the same house that is brimming with happy planets is also the house from which new creative ideas will emerge.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He was dressed in rusty black, with a very broad-brimmed top-hat and a loose white necktie—the whole effect being that of a very rustic parson or of an undertaker’s mute.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was pierced in the brim for a hat-securer, but the elastic was missing.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cells of Earth’s plants and animals would not hold up well on Titan, where surface temperatures average minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 179 degrees Celsius), and lakes brim with liquid methane.

(NASA Finds Moon of Saturn Has Chemical That Could Form ‘Membranes’, NASA)

Each time the chaise swayed, her head with the great hat swayed also, so that sometimes we saw the crown of it and sometimes the brim.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was dressed in a long gray gown, and wore a broad hat of the same color, much weather-stained, with three scallop-shells dangling from the brim.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wearing sunglasses and a hat with a brim to block ultraviolet sunlight may help to delay cataracts.

(Cataract, NIH: National Eye Institute)

It is bounded laterally by the borders of the quadratus lumborum muscles and extends from the diaphragm to the brim of the true pelvis, where it continues as the pelvic extraperitoneal space.

(Murine Retroperitoneum, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Martin did not deign to offer excuses, but called for whiskey, filling his own glass brimming before he passed the bottle.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Mr. Omer took off his broad-brimmed hat, and sat down and panted.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)