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Brim and Brio Definitions

Brim

The uppermost edge of a hollow container or natural basin.

Brio

Vigor; vivacity
"She tells their story with brio and a mixture of sympathy and tart insight" (Michiko Kakutani).

Brim

A projecting rim or edge, especially around the bottom of a hat.

Brio

Vigour or vivacity.

Brim

Full capacity
"No sooner had the fighting started than the hotel filled to the brim with a most extraordinary collection of people" (George Orwell).
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Brio

Quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous

Brim

To be full to the brim, often to overflowing
The cup is brimming with chowder.

Brim

To be abundantly filled or supplied
A monument brimming with tourists.
Workers brimming with pride.

Brim

To fill to the brim.

Brim

(obsolete) The sea; ocean; water; flood.
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Brim

An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water).

Brim

The topmost rim or lip of a container.
The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.

Brim

A projecting rim, especially of a hat.
He turned the back of his brim up stylishly.

Brim

(intransitive) To be full to overflowing.
The room brimmed with people.

Brim

(transitive) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.

Brim

Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.

Brim

(obsolete) Fierce; sharp; cold.

Brim

The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.
Saw I that insect on this goblet's brimI would remove it with an anxious pity.

Brim

The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border.
The feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water.

Brim

The rim of a hat.

Brim

To be full to the brim.

Brim

To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
Arrange the board and brim the glass.

Brim

Fierce; sharp; cold. See Breme.

Brim

The top edge of a vessel

Brim

A circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat

Brim

Be completely full;
His eyes brimmed with tears

Brim

Fill as much as possible;
Brim a cup to good fellowship

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