The shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object.

Dutch: rand
Polish: obwódka

basketball The hoop from which the net is suspended.

The outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached.

Dutch: velg
Polish: felga

A projection used for strength or for attaching to another object.

synonym: flange.

Dutch: richel, flens

The top edge of a vessel or other container.

synonyms: brim, lip.

Roget 231: edge, verge, brink, brow, brim, margin, border, confine, skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth; jaws, chops, chaps, fauces; lip, muzzle.    threshold, door, porch; portal etc. (opening) 260; coast, shore.    frame, fringe, flounce, frill, list, trimming, edging, skirting, hem, selvedge, welt, furbelow, valance, gimp.    ... show more

Dutch: boord, rand

Run around the rim of.

Furnish with a rim.

Roll around the rim of.

Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside).

synonyms: frost, hoar, hoarfrost.

Roget 198: interval, interspace^†; separation etc. 44; break, gap, opening; hole etc. 260; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure^†, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.    gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith^†, strait, gully; pass; furrow etc. 259; abra^†; barranca^†, barranco^†; clove [U.S.], gulch [U.S.], notch [U.S.]; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime [Lat.], hiatus valde deflendus [Lat.]; parenthesis etc. (interjacence) 228^†; void etc. (absence) 187; incompleteness etc. 53.    [interval of time] period etc. 108; interim (time) 106.    ... show more

Roget 383: cold, coldness etc. adj.; frigidity, inclemency, fresco.    winter; depth of winter, hard winter; Siberia, Nova Zembla; wind-chill factor.    [forms of frozen water] ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze [U.S.], lolly [U.S.]; icicle, thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier; nev_ee, serac^†; pruina^†.    [cold substances] freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium.    [Sensation of cold] chilliness etc. adj.; chill; shivering etc. v.; goose skin, horripilation^†; rigor; chattering of teeth; numbness, frostbite.    ... show more

Dutch: vorst, rijm, rijp
Polish: mróz, szron

Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds).

synonym: rhyme.

Dutch: rijmwoord, rijm
Polish: rym

Be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable.

synonym: rhyme.

Compose rhymes.

synonym: rhyme.

Dutch: berijmen, rijmen