I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
outer
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Ling Gill is better enjoyed from its outer rim than from its confines.
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Roll out a pastry lid, place it over the filling and damp the outer rim .
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Can you advise me on how I could repair a chip in its outer rim ?
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He had found the observation post two miles beyond the outer rim of the Jabal Hamrin.
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At the outer rim of awareness, the known and declared nationalists fade into a host that have still to declare themselves.
■ NOUN
canyon
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Occasionally they caught a glimpse of trees on the canyon rim , five thousand feet above.
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It took more than 11 hours to run the Grand Canyon rim to rim and back.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her lipstick left a red mark on the rim of the cup.
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John's glasses had small lenses and steel rims.
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The ball hit the rim of the basket and bounced off.
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The china set was blue with a gold rim .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A more famous slide can be seen below the Middle Brothers Peak on the north valley rim .
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First there was a nearly circular rim of resplendent mountains, their white caps glistening in the morning sun.
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Gently he pressed the two ends of the wallet's rim towards each other.
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He kept banging this other face into the rim of the bucket.
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I lifted up my glass of wine and looked straight into her eyes over the rim .
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Imagine thousands of tourists swarming over the countryside along the southern rim of the Ocala National Forest.
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The other picked up his drink and took a long swallow, watching her over the rim of the tankard.
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The river was dangerous here, still gnawing at the rim of the path.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her eyes were rimmed with black.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And Francie's collar, she saw, was rimmed with dirt and his neck was filthy.
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But his dark rimmed glasses and old fashioned looks belie a career spent one step ahead.
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Her eyes were rimmed with the price of traversing oceans, the jump of time zones.
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People went about exhausted, ashen-faced, their eyes rimmed with red.
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The flowers are a subtle shade of pale green, rimmed in purple as the days go on.
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The wall is rimmed with razor wire; guards, dressed in camouflage, stand watch.