What's the difference between rim and rimmer?

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.

Rimmer


Definition:

  • (n.) An implement for cutting, trimming, or ornamenting the rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc.; also, a reamer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wayne Rimmer Bromborough, Wirral • John Mills criticises the sell-off of ARM to Japanese investors ( The ARM sell-off is bad for Britain , 19 July) as being against the interests of British working people.
  • (2) Robb had a brief and he held it.” Rimmer also points to another area of potential controversy in the IP chapter: criminal procedures and penalties in respect of disclosure of trade secrets, computer crimes and espionage.
  • (3) But green groups and trade experts including Matthew Rimmer, professor of intellectual property and innovation at the Queensland University of Technology, have been surprised to learn the chapter doesn’t actually use the words climate change.
  • (4) In an email on 13 July 2009 to Richard Westlake, Johnson's private secretary, Rimmer wrote: "My own advice on this remains that there are insufficient grounds to do so … and that the Met would deeply resent what they would see as 'interference' in an operational investigation which could, of course, be revived at any given time."
  • (5) Rosemary Rimmer-Clay, who was a 19-year-old student at Dundee University in 1975 at a time when he was rector of the university, said that a man who she had once viewed as a hero had abused his power to prey on young girls.
  • (6) Helen Rimmer, from Friends of the Earth said she was disappointed with the deferral.
  • (7) Joyce Rimmer Birmingham • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com
  • (8) However, Friends of the Earth's north-west campaigner, Helen Rimmer, said: "These plans will be met by stiff opposition from local people rightly concerned about having the UK's first attempted multiple-well fracking operation under their feet.
  • (9) Last month freedom of information responses from 155 acute hospital trusts in England – which is almost all of them – received by BMJ Careers journalist Abi Rimmer found that only “one in every 100 consultants has actively opted out of non-emergency weekend working or used a clause in their contract to avoid non-emergency out of hours work”.
  • (10) Rimmer is constantly finding great ideas in Lebanese restaurants.
  • (11) Matthew Rimmer, an expert in intellectual property law at the Australian National University, said the TPP could affect a range of laws, including Australia’s tobacco plain packaging laws.
  • (12) The review group will be chaired by Stephen Rimmer , Home Office director general, and will include MPs, representatives from the national bodies for school governors and heads, and councillors.
  • (13) For services to Parliament and voluntary service to the community through Great Culverden Park Ltd. Stephen John Rimmer.
  • (14) Stephen Rimmer, the Home Office's director general of crime and policing, wrote to Yates asking what the Met was doing about the allegations about the involvement of 27 other journalists and whether the police would be informing all those allegedly targeted, and not just those whose phones were sucessfully tapped.
  • (15) Andrew Osagie and Michael Rimmer also failed to get out of their 800m heats after surprisingly underwhelming performances.
  • (16) Updated at 8.53pm BST 8.52pm BST Half-time emails "It's not possible to get smashed on Coors Light," roars Robin Rimmer.
  • (17) An exchange of letters placed in the House of Commons library discloses that Stephen Rimmer, the Home Office's director general of crime and policing, wrote to Yates last Friday asking what the Met was doing about the allegations about the involvement of 27 other journalists and whether the police would be informing all those allegedly targeted.
  • (18) David Rimmer, Shell's general managed for global gas said, "Shell sees renewables as a major part of the future energy mix but this analysis has shown that increased reliance on gas in the near term saves money and jobs, delivers on climate targets and allows new technologies to be improved before large scale deployment."
  • (19) Three years later, Aston Villa's rookie goalkeeper Nigel Spink was summoned from the bench after 10 minutes to replace the injured Jimmy Rimmer.
  • (20) Rimmer also showed there was acute sensitivity about Yates, who was responsible for the police investigation into whether Labour had traded peerages for donations to the party.

Words possibly related to "rim"

Words possibly related to "rimmer"