Brim vs. Brio: What's the Difference?
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.
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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
