RIMMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rimmed mean? 

• RIMMED (adjective)
  The adjective RIMMED has 1 sense:

1. having a rim or a rim of a specified kind

  Familiarity information: RIMMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIMMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a rim or a rim of a specified kind

Context example:

do you wear rimmed or rimless glasses?

Similar:

horn-rimmed (having the frame made of horn or tortoise shell or plastic that simulates either)

red-rimmed (rimmed with red)

Antonym:

rimless (lacking a rim or frame)

 Context examples 

They found that all expanding rimmed spots seen on the scans had the telltale features of chronic active lesions when examined under a microscope.

(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)

Storm followed storm, and between the storms there was the silence, broken only by the boom of the surf on the desolate shore, where the salt spray rimmed the beach with frozen white.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The knuckles were skinned and inflamed clear across, the fingers swollen, the nails rimmed with black.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

From his spats to his gold-rimmed spectacles he was a Conservative, a churchman, a good citizen, orthodox and conventional to the last degree.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And now, if I do but step into the parlour, I can see her once more, with over eighty years of saintly life behind her, silver-haired, placid-faced, with her dainty ribboned cap, her gold-rimmed glasses, and her woolly shawl with the blue border.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Charles Augustus Milverton was a man of fifty, with a large, intellectual head, a round, plump, hairless face, a perpetual frozen smile, and two keen grey eyes, which gleamed brightly from behind broad, gold-rimmed glasses.

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

While some of the lesions heal, completely or partially, other lesions remain and rimmed ones appear to actively expand, or “smolder”, for many years.

(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)

Stanley Hopkins led us first to the house, where he introduced us to a haggard, grey-haired woman, the widow of the murdered man, whose gaunt and deep-lined face, with the furtive look of terror in the depths of her red-rimmed eyes, told of the years of hardship and ill-usage which she had endured.

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

The team found that, regardless of the treatment they were receiving, 56 percent of the patients had at least one rimmed lesion.

(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)

Moreover, these patients developed motor and cognitive disabilities at a younger age than the patients who had no rimmed lesions.

(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)