(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.
Rime
Definition:
(n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
(n.) White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.
(v. i.) To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
(n.) A step or round of a ladder; a rung.
(n.) Rhyme. See Rhyme.
(v. i. & t.) To rhyme. See Rhyme.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is recent evidence that children naturally divide syllables into the opening consonant or consonant cluster (the onset) and the rest of the syllable (the rime).
(2) Both TRS and RIME sense transcripts are preferentially synthesized compared to anti-sense transcripts, and are much more abundant in bloodstream forms than in cultured procyclics.
(3) In Experiment 1, partial identity priming using word-final trigrams was observed only when the bigram corresponded to the orthographic rime unit.
(4) Treiman (1983) and others have argued that spoken syllables are best characterized not as linear strings of phonemes, but as hierarchically organized units consisting of an onset (initial consonant or consonant cluster) and a rime (the vowel and any following consonants) and that the rime is further divided into a peak or nucleus (the vowel) and a coda (the final consonants).
(5) Words which rhyme share a common rime and thus can be categorized on that speech unit.
(6) The results were discussed in relation to theories suggesting that syllables consist of an onset and a rime.
(7) "The sectarian element was introduced into the revolution in March 2011 by the Assad regime itself, which wants to identify it with sectarian strife," says Syrian writer and analyst Rime Allaf .
(8) Who wants to see the soil stripped from the land, the sea rimed with rubbish?
(9) Monosyllabic words were blended and learned as easily with onset-rime segmentation as with whole word units, for all children.
(10) By then, the Syrian revolutionaries had lost their innocence and the Syrian regime had lost its reticence,” wrote Rime Allaf, a pro-uprising Syrian commentator.
(11) Although there were singles that joined Ultravox's Vienna in the "unfairly denied the top slot" corner – Daft Punk's One More Time (kept off by Leann Rimes's Can't Fight the Moonlight), Pink's Get the Party Started (George Harrison's death pushing My Sweet Lord back to the top) and Kelis's Milkshake (stuck at second base for a whole month thanks to Michelle McManus's All the Time and then LMC's Take Me to the Skies Above) – it was also true that only the genuinely great have hogged the top spot this decade.
(12) Smith's film is a horror comedy starring Michael Parks, featuring the actor, in Smith's words, reciting "some Lewis Carroll and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to some poor motherfucker sewn into a realistic walrus costume".
(13) "It is a ridiculous and dangerous comment," said Rime Allaf, a Syrian analyst at the Chatham House thinktank in London.
(14) That is, can children learn more words segmented at the onset-rime boundary (e.g., CL-AP, D-ISH) than words segmented after the vowel (CLA-P, DI-SH)?
(15) In addition to the antigen gene, it contains seven putative coding regions (ESAGs, for expression site-associated genes), as well as a RIME retroposon.
(16) Here's why: Heavy metal makes kids read Romantic poetry By taking the words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and turning them into songs, Iron Maiden (with Rime of the Ancient Mariner) and Rush (Xanadu, based on Kubla Khan) have done more to draw attention to one of English literature's heroes than any number of Oxbridge academics.
(17) Grade 2 and 3 readers increasingly used larger orthographic correspondences termed rimes (e.g., -ook, -ild).
(18) These results are consistent with the view that syllables are coded in terms of an onset (initial consonant or cluster) and a rime (remainder).
(19) We asked whether this same onset-rime segmentation might also be beneficial in teaching children to read.
(20) In all three experiments, onset-rime segmentation proved more helpful than postvowel segmentation in short-term learning of the words.