What is the difference between brim and rim

I hate it when bartenders fill martini glasses to the brim. When I try to lift it to my mouth, it always spills, no matter how careful I am.

Johnny's mother filled his lunchbox to the brim every day with good, healthful food, which he promptly traded to his classmates for candy and chips. You should never fill a baking pan to the brim with batter, since the batter will expand during baking.

Only fill them halfway. I love going caroling. It always fills me to the brim with the "Christmas spirit. Teachers: We supply a list of EFL job vacancies. Idiom: to fill to the brim. Also brimming full nearly overflowing. New2grammar Can I say "the brim of the plate" since they are mostly round?

With salutations to Del, I would have said "no. That excludes only "lunch box" and "baking pan" in my experience, although I now recall that we had a few round baking pans for making round cakes, and cupcake tins for baking nine or a dozen cupcakes together, each cup of which could be said to have a brim. All the items on your list are containers of sorts, so anything on your list which you conceive of as being round IMHO would have a brim.

I didn't mean to imply that anything which is round has a brim. Certainly not "round like a ball," which is spherical. The lower part of the abdomen. To furnish with a rim; to border. Example Sentences: 1 Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented. HCl and proadifen. HCl form more stable complexes, suggesting that hydrogen bonding to the carbonyl oxygen by the hydroxyl-group on the rim of the CD ring could be an important contributor to the complexation.

Her eyes brimmed with tears when she heard the sad news. When she came back from her first day at her new job, Mary was brimming with happiness. Would you like salt on the rim of your margarita glass? You'll need to replace this rim that got bent in the accident. Does not include Spain. I want to get some rims with the spinners for my hot rod.

Filled to the Brim or Filled to the Rim? By Mignon Fogarty Grammar Girl. May 5, About the Author. Follow Facebook Linkedin Pinterest.