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English Grammar and Usage Problems => Use and Misuse => Topic started by: fimbriae on September 15, 2009, 05:40:07 PM

Title: I had found an unfamiliar term.
Post by: fimbriae on September 15, 2009, 05:40:07 PM

What is rimming? please let me know it.

Title: Re: I had found an unfamiliar term.
Post by: Joe Carillo on September 15, 2009, 07:11:49 PM

This is what my Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary says about "rimming":

rim
Function: verb
Inflected Form:rimmed ; rimming
Date:1621

transitive verb 
1 : to run around the rim of  <putts that rim the cup>
2 : to serve as a rim for  : BORDER  <cliffs rimming the camp>
intransitive verb   : to form or show a rim

Title: Re: I had found an unfamiliar term.
Post by: fimbriae on September 15, 2009, 07:24:39 PM

Quote from: Joe Carillo on September 15, 2009, 07:11:49 PM

This is what my Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary says about "rimming":

rim
Function: verb
Inflected Form:rimmed ; rimming
Date:1621

transitive verb 
1 : to run around the rim of  <putts that rim the cup>
2 : to serve as a rim for  : BORDER  <cliffs rimming the camp>
intransitive verb   : to form or show a rim

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