Usually means: Edge or border of something.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word rim:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. rim: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rim: Merriam-Webster
  3. RIM, rim, rim: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rim: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rim: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rim: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rim, rim: Wordnik
  8. rim: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Rim: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. rim: Wiktionary
  11. rim: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. rim: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. rim: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. RIM: Dictionary.com
  15. rim: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. rim: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. RIM, Rim (basketball), Rim (coin), Rim (crater), Rim (craters), Rim (disambiguation), Rim (firearms), Rim (novel), Rim (wheel), Rim: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Rim: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. rim: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. rim: Rhymezone
  21. rim: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. rim: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. RIM: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. rim: FreeDictionary.org
  25. rim: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. rim: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. rim: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Banjo Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Rim: Numismatic Dictionary
  6. rim-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Rim (disambiguation), rim: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. Rim (disambiguation), rim: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Rim (disambiguation), rim: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. RIM: Acronym Finder
  2. RIM: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rim, rim: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rim: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rim: Backgammon
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Rim: Bicycle Glossary
  4. rim: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. RIM: Fiberglass Glossary
  3. rim: Coin Collecting

(Note: See riming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An edge around something, especially when circular.
noun:  (automotive, cycling) A wheelrim.
noun:  (journalism) A semicircular copydesk.
verb:  (transitive) To form a rim on.
verb:  (transitive) To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive, of a ball) To roll around a rim.
verb:  (vulgar, slang) To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act; to perform anilingus.
noun:  (UK dialectal) A membrane.
noun:  (UK dialectal or obsolete) The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly.
noun:  (British, dialectal) A step of a ladder; a rung.

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