What's the difference between bezel and rim?

Bezel


Definition:

  • (n.) The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It has a smaller bezel (43% less), and is much thinner (7.5mm v 9.4mm) When you hold it it will be dramatically different experience.
  • (2) LG is one of the world's biggest suppliers of LCD and OLED screens, and has been pioneering so-called "edge-to-edge" smartphone screens that have very little in the way of bezel or body either side or surrounding the screen.
  • (3) The 9.7in iPad is expected to get a thinner body and bezels, to match the design of the iPad mini.
  • (4) I saw my father, larger than life, and the Irish landscape, skewed and magical, framed by curved, shining bezels.
  • (5) Now the iPad Air takes its cues from the mini – a thinner bezel around the screen (but with thumb detection so you don't accidentally activate it), an almost-vertical profile (but gently rounded), and so little weight that you might think it's just a large mini.
  • (6) The round screen has virtually no bezel, meeting the aluminium casing at the edges, but does have a squared-off bottom that resembles a flat tyre, where some of the electronic components are placed to operate the screen.
  • (7) The video for the 9.7in iPad suggests that the new model - updating the one released last October at the same time as the iPad mini - will be significantly thinner, and about 17cm wide rather than 18.5cm for the older model, because the bezel on the longer sides of the screen has been made thinner - as on the iPad mini .
  • (8) It is being 20% thinner, with with a slimmer bezel around the high-resolution screen, and a 64-bit processor with M7 co-processor.
  • (9) The new device is likely to feature a redesigned chassis , taking cues from the iPad mini in the form of a smaller bezel, and from the iPhone 5 in the form of an anodised aluminium back.
  • (10) Unbox Therapy has a hands-on video with what it claims is the “space grey” version of the iPad 5, featuring a black front bezel.
  • (11) The soft-touchback and thumb-wide screen bezel mean you don't have to worry about it slipping out of your grasp, or your fingers accidentally activating the touchscreen.
  • (12) The iPad, which already includes a high-quality 'retina' screen, is thought to be much thinner and with a slimmer 'bezel', or frame more like the latest iPad mini.

Rim


Definition:

  • (n.) The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.
  • (n.) The lower part of the abdomen.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (2) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
  • (3) Both adiphenine.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.
  • (4) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
  • (5) But officials warned the rains may not reach the heart of the Rim fire.
  • (6) RIM has always struggled to explain to the authorities that, unlike most other companies, it technically cannot access or read the majority of the messages sent by users over its network.
  • (7) Early complications included disc entrapment against the ventricular wall in three cases, wedging of chorda between disc and valve rim in two and posterior perforation of the left ventricle in three patients.
  • (8) On CT scans the tumor thrombus usually appeared as an endoluminal filling defect surrounded by a rim of contrast material.
  • (9) The usual approach to the inferior orbit has been through a subciliary skin incision and dissection of a skin flap to the orbital rim.
  • (10) This permitted employment of cast combined crowns with wide perigingival metal rims to support the clasp dentures to make them look better when supplying 73 patients with partial removable dentures.
  • (11) Two patients had a second arthroscopy, and no evidence of instability of the peripheral rim was found.
  • (12) Fold the edges of the baking parchment down over the rim of the basin.
  • (13) Healing of rim widths to 5 mm can be obtained with these methods.
  • (14) In young people the basic histological pattern of clusters, composed of cores of chief cells with surrounding rims of sustentacular cells, has commonly superimposed on it prominence of the dark variant of chief cells.
  • (15) A hypointense vascular rim was noted on MR in seven of 13 extracanalicular acoustic tumors and in three of seven meningiomas.
  • (16) It was suggested that the differences in rim area were already present prior to the manifestation of the VFD.
  • (17) "I'm interested to see what RIM's new OS has in store, and hope I'll be able to sample some of its features on the 9900.
  • (18) MRI delineated discrete lesions, typical of cavernous angiomas, with a mixed hyperintense, reticulated, central core surrounded by a hypointense rim.
  • (19) When pointing to its importance in retention, it applies to the rim margins, its relation to the support and its role in the valve closure of the upper total prosthesis.
  • (20) Enhanced sonograms were classified into five patterns according to the relative changes of the echo levels between the tumor and the nontumorous parenchyma of the liver as a result of enhancement: hyperechoic change, isoechoic change, hypoechoic change with hyperechoic rim (rim sign), marginal spotty hyperechoic change, and internal spotty hyperechoic change.

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