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brim

(brĭm)

1. The uppermost edge of a hollow container or natural basin.

2. A projecting rim or edge, especially around the bottom of a hat.

3. Full capacity: "No sooner had the fighting started than the hotel filled to the brim with a most extraordinary collection of people" (George Orwell).

v. brimmed, brim·ming, brims

v.intr.

1. To be full to the brim, often to overflowing: The cup is brimming with chowder.

2. To be abundantly filled or supplied: a monument brimming with tourists; workers brimming with pride.

v.tr.

To fill to the brim.

[Middle English brimme.]

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brim

(brɪm)

1. the upper rim of a vessel: the brim of a cup.

2. a projecting rim or edge: the brim of a hat.

3. the brink or edge of something

vb, brims, brimming or brimmed

to fill or be full to the brim: eyes brimming with tears.

[C13: from Middle High German brem, probably from Old Norse barmr; see berm]

ˈbrimless adj

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brim

(brɪm)

n., v. brimmed, brim•ming. n.

1. the upper edge of anything hollow; rim; brink.

2. a projecting edge: the brim of a hat.

3. a margin.

v.i.

4. to be full to the brim.

v.t.

5. to fill to the brim.

[1175–1225; Middle English brimme brink, rim]

brim′less, adj.

brim′ming•ly, adv.

syn: See rim.

brim

Past participle: brimmed
Gerund: brimming

Imperative
brim
brim

Present
I brim
you brim
he/she/it brims
we brim
you brim
they brim

Preterite
I brimmed
you brimmed
he/she/it brimmed
we brimmed
you brimmed
they brimmed

Present Continuous
I am brimming
you are brimming
he/she/it is brimming
we are brimming
you are brimming
they are brimming

Present Perfect
I have brimmed
you have brimmed
he/she/it has brimmed
we have brimmed
you have brimmed
they have brimmed

Past Continuous
I was brimming
you were brimming
he/she/it was brimming
we were brimming
you were brimming
they were brimming

Past Perfect
I had brimmed
you had brimmed
he/she/it had brimmed
we had brimmed
you had brimmed
they had brimmed

Future
I will brim
you will brim
he/she/it will brim
we will brim
you will brim
they will brim

Future Perfect
I will have brimmed
you will have brimmed
he/she/it will have brimmed
we will have brimmed
you will have brimmed
they will have brimmed

Future Continuous
I will be brimming
you will be brimming
he/she/it will be brimming
we will be brimming
you will be brimming
they will be brimming

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been brimming
you have been brimming
he/she/it has been brimming
we have been brimming
you have been brimming
they have been brimming

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been brimming
you will have been brimming
he/she/it will have been brimming
we will have been brimming
you will have been brimming
they will have been brimming

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been brimming
you had been brimming
he/she/it had been brimming
we had been brimming
you had been brimming
they had been brimming

Conditional
I would brim
you would brim
he/she/it would brim
we would brim
you would brim
they would brim

Past Conditional
I would have brimmed
you would have brimmed
he/she/it would have brimmed
we would have brimmed
you would have brimmed
they would have brimmed

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Noun	1.	brim - the top edge of a vessel or other container lip, rim shoe collar, collar - the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot edge - a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object; "he rounded the edges of the box" vessel - an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
	2.	brim - a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat eyeshade, visor, vizor, peak, bill - a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes; "he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead" chapeau, hat, lid - headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim projection - any structure that branches out from a central support snap brim - a brim that can be turned up and down on opposite sides
Verb	1.	brim - be completely full; "His eyes brimmed with tears" feature, have - have as a feature; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France"
	2.	brim - fill as much as possible; "brim a cup to good fellowship" fill, fill up, make full - make full, also in a metaphorical sense; "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride"

brim

noun

1. peak, shade, shield, visor Rain dripped from the brim of his baseball cap.

2. rim, edge, border, lip, margin, verge, brink, flange The toilet was full to the brim with insects.

verb

1. be full, spill, well over, run over, overflow, spill over, brim over They are brimming with confidence.

2. fill, well over, fill up, overflow Michael looked at him imploringly, his eyes brimming with tears.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

brim

noun

1. The projecting rim on the front of a cap:

bill, peak, visor.

2. A fairly narrow line or space forming a boundary:

border, borderline, brink, edge, edging, fringe, margin, periphery, rim, verge.

Chiefly Military: perimeter.

Translations

حافّـهرَفْرَف القُبَّعَهيَطْفَحُ، يَفيضُ

krempanaplnit seokraj

fylde til randen medløbe over afrandskygge

Rand überquellen Hutkrempe Krempe

γείσο

ala

bord

csordultig telikszél

barmafullurbarmur, brúnhattbarî

orlo traboccare

kraštaipripildytiprisipildyti

malapiepildīt līdz malām

brem fylle til randen renne over

strecha

rob

ağızdolu olmakkenar

帽边满溢边缘

brim

[brɪm]

A. N [of cup] → borde m; [of hat] → ala f

B. VI (also brim over) → rebosar, desbordarse
to brim with → rebosar de

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

brim

[ˈbrɪm]

[hat] → bord m

to be full to the brim [container] → être plein à ras bord
to be full to the brim with sth [person] → déborder de qch

vi
to be brimming with sth [+ confidence, love] → être débordant(e) de qch
Her eyes were brimming with tears
BUT Elle avait les yeux pleins de larmes.

brim

n (of cup) → Rand m; (of hat also) → Krempe f; full to the brim (with something) (lit) → randvoll (mit etw); she is full to the brim with joy → sie strömt über vor Freude

vi → strotzen (→ with von or vor +dat); her eyes were brimming with tears → ihre Augen schwammen in Tränen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

brim

[brɪm]

1. n (of cup) → orlo; (of hat) → tesa, falda

2. vi to brim (over) with → traboccare di
eyes brimming with tears → occhi colmi di lacrime

brim

(brim) noun

1. the top edge of a cup, glass etc. The jug was filled to the brim.

2. the edge of a hat. She pulled the brim of her hat down over her eyes.

verb – past tense, past participle brimmed –

to be, or become, full to the brim. Her eyes were brimming with tears.

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But they were overcome by unutterable amazement when Mr Pancks, going close up to the most venerable of men and halting in front of the bottle-green waistcoat, made a trigger of his right thumb and forefinger, applied the same to the brim of the broad-brimmed hat, and, with singular smartness and precision, shot it off the polished head as if it had been a large marble.

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There was a mouth under the eyes, the lipless brim of which quivered and panted, and dropped saliva.

It had toppled over the brim of the cylinder and fallen into the pit, with a thud like the fall of a great mass of leather.

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Now gallants tap their two-edged swords, And pride and passion swell amain; Like red stars flashing through the night The circling wine-cups brim again.

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The stave was still there, and on it Starkey had hung his hat, a deep tarpaulin, watertight, with a broad brim. Peter put the eggs into this hat and set it on the lagoon.

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The speaker, and the schoolmaster, and the third grown person present, all backed a little, and swept with their eyes the inclined plane of little vessels then and there arranged in order, ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.

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"Dark complexion; hair, eyebrows, and whiskers, black; blue frock-coat, buttoned up to the chin; rosette of an officer of the Legion of Honor in his button-hole; a hat with wide brim, and a cane."

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Coarse sandals, bound with thongs, on his bare feet; a broad and shadowy hat, with cockle-shells stitched on its brim, and a long staff shod with iron, to the upper end of which was attached a branch of palm, completed the palmer's attire.

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His hat had a peaked crown and a flat brim, and around the brim was a row of tiny golden bells that tinkled when he moved.

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When they stopped to change at Coventry, the steam ascended from the horses in such clouds as wholly to obscure the hostler, whose voice was however heard to declare from the mist, that he expected the first gold medal from the Humane Society on their next distribution of rewards, for taking the postboy's hat off; the water descending from the brim of which, the invisible gentleman declared, must have drowned him (the postboy), but for his great presence of mind in tearing it promptly from his head, and drying the gasping man's countenance with a wisp of straw.

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Then, astounded by the quantity of beer that was lacking, and remembering having seen stale beer made to foam afresh, I took a stick and stirred what was left till it foamed to the brim.

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Rochester's eyes that they overflow like two cups filled above the brim: have you never remarked that?"