What's the difference between brim and topmost?

Brim


Definition:

  • (n.) The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.
  • (n.) The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border.
  • (n.) The rim of a hat.
  • (v. i.) To be full to the brim.
  • (v. t.) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
  • (a.) Fierce; sharp; cold. See Breme.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Last year, in a continuing campaign to improve policing , he produced a book brimming with indignation.
  • (2) In general, we could say that the combination of these daily rules makes the detention atmosphere unsafe, full of stress and brimful of pressure.
  • (3) Nutritional stresses are indicated by dental lesions, hypoplasias, stature, and skull base height and pelvic brim index.
  • (4) This week I spoke to Richard Murphy , the economist and tax expert, whose new book has the self-explanatory title The Courageous State and brims with imaginative thinking.
  • (5) The likelihood of failure or complication was greater for stones above than for those below the pelvic brim (15 of 25 or 60 per cent versus 26 of 75 or 35 per cent, p less than 0.05).
  • (6) His private palace, seven miles outside town in Kawele, brimmed with paintings, sculptures, stained glass, ersatz Louis XIV furniture, marble from Carrara in Italy and two swimming pools surrounded by loudspeakers playing his beloved Gregorian chants or classical music.
  • (7) It was subdivided into fractures of the acetabulum, fractures of the pelvic girdle, dislocations, and fractures of the pelvic brim on the basis of the system of Judet and Engler as well as Feldkamp.
  • (8) At 56 he brims with the energy of a much younger man; he has international standing and experience and an undoubted feel for the needs and ambitions of the big players.
  • (9) Kennedy's wife Vicki sat in the front row, her eyes always brimming but never overwhelmed.
  • (10) The distance from the external urethral orifice to the cranial pubic brim was correlated (P less than 0.001) with bodyweight but was not significantly different in the continent and incontinent bitches.
  • (11) 'I greet the year 1968 with serenity,' he announced, brimming with self-satisfaction.
  • (12) Diego Forlán, 30 yards from the target, showed all the confidence that has been brimming over in his work for the Europa League winners Atlético Madrid.
  • (13) Spurs have been guilty of starting matches sluggishly this season but they brimmed with menace from the start, Adebayor and Gareth Bale going close with headers from corners.
  • (14) Six or seven” out of 10 was the faintly damning verdict of one Chinese tourist, an MBA student at Bath University, on the bride’s outfit: a glamorous cream Stella McCartney trouser suit with a wide-brimmed hat.
  • (15) Where’s your warrant?’” says Greste, wearing the same wide-brimmed hat he was arrested in.
  • (16) These predicted increases in risk, resulting from greater solar ultraviolet exposure, can be offset by adopting changes to behaviour during the summer months which may involve spending less time outdoors, wearing appropriate clothing including wide-brimmed hats, applying topical sunscreens, or a combination of these.
  • (17) calculi below the pelvic brim) underwent local shock-wave lithotripsy.
  • (18) Investment spurred a full-on revival of the arts scene, a gallery district and a brimming outdoor gallery of street art in Central and Humewood.
  • (19) Much beer was drunk, many speeches were made, brimming glasses raised to a company whose success had plainly served all who were present.
  • (20) The inverse covariability between the transverse inlet diameter and the brim index is weak (r = -0,17).

Topmost


Definition:

  • (a.) Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The combined results describe the depth of segregation of DMS blocks in Avcothane, the presence of DMS within the topmost 20 A in Biomer, and similar impurities in the model polymers.
  • (2) Kate Middleton, it has been disclosed this month , will ride to her wedding with the future King William in a mere motor car, only to be transported away at the end in the shimmering glory of a state coach – symbolising her transformation from commoner to iconic ingredient in the topmost rank of British society.
  • (3) The topmost activity after incubation however is present in the nodular melanoma.
  • (4) College students were handling vinegar to help neutralize the effects of tear-gas; medical students were bandaging the wounded; the owners of the posh mansions of the Morumbi neighborhood were in front of their villas, handling water and vinegar to passersby; Anonymous Brazil hacked several websites and Twitter accounts in order to motivate people to take the streets and even Gloria Kalil, Brazil's topmost fashion guru, dedicated an entry on her weblog on how to dress properly for the riots, in order to be better protected from tear-gas and rubber bullets.
  • (5) With the notable exception of the topmost twentieth, income groups in the top half were net gainers from the changes.
  • (6) Fresh human cadaveric ligamentous spine segments (T12-sacrum) were potted and clinically relevant loads applied through the loading frame attached to the topmost vertebra of the specimen.
  • (7) With 8.5% of all occupational poisonings in Poland organophosphate poisonings hold one of the topmost positions.
  • (8) Yes, there were iconic shows from the US like Kojak and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but these were just well made entertainments at the very tippy-topmost peak of a mound of dross.
  • (9) The removal of the topmost cell layers of the epidermal stratum corneum by stripping initiates a series of biochemical events which alters the normal homeostatic control of and results in the acceleration of the cell cycle in basal cells which are ten to twenty cell layers removed from the site of stripping.
  • (10) In the computer-derived data, the relative risk of 'death' or 'hypertension' was greatest in the topmost quintile.
  • (11) And she was a model also for every writer coming from the back of beyond, demonstrating – as she so signally did – that you can be a nobody from nowhere, but, with talent, courage, perseverance through hard times, and a dollop of luck, you can scale the topmost storyheights.
  • (12) Topmost temperatures were significantly hotter than temperatures reached at other sites.
  • (13) On the average, NH4+ oxidizers were 540-fold more abundant in the topmost 1 cm of sediment than in the water, and NO2- oxidizers were 250-fold more abundant.
  • (14) "When it really comes to the poor and women's issues, she definitely gives it the topmost priority.
  • (15) After topical treatment of enamel pieces cut from bovine incisors, the chemical composition of the solution phases and of the topmost layers of enamel were determined by special techniques of elemental and surface analysis.
  • (16) The device consists of polyethylene tubes froming two perpendicular loops joined and fixed and their topmost point by ligature.

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