Words that rhyme with krim

n 1: the top edge of a vessel or other container [syn: brim, rim, lip] 2: a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat v 1: be completely full; "His eyes brimmed with tears" 2: fill as much as possible; "brim a cup to good fellowship"

adj 1: lacking in light; not bright or harsh; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music" [syn: dim, subdued] 2: lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" [syn: dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy] 3: made dim or less bright; "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner" [syn: dimmed, dim] [ant: bright, undimmed] 4: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things" [syn: black, bleak, dim] 5: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow] v 1: switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam [syn: dim, dip] 2: become dim or lusterless; "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose" 3: make dim or lusterless; "Time had dimmed the silver" 4: make dim by comparison or conceal [syn: blind, dim] 5: become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" [syn: blur, dim, slur] [ant: focalise, focalize, focus]

n 1: athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training [syn: gymnasium, gym]

n 1: a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation) [syn: hymn, anthem] v 1: sing a hymn 2: praise by singing a hymn; "They hymned their love of God"

n 1: one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper 2: any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree [syn: limb, tree branch] 3: (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet 4: either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip; "the upper limb of the bow" 5: the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles; "the limb of the sextant" 6: any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm; "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer" [syn: arm, branch, limb]

n 1: a firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater

n 1: a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices

adj 1: used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed; "yogurt made with skim milk"; "she can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter" [syn: skim, skimmed] n 1: a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; "there was a thin skim of oil on the water" 2: reading or glancing through quickly [syn: skim, skimming] v 1: travel on the surface of water [syn: plane, skim] 2: move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of [syn: skim over, skim] 3: examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down] 4: cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond" [syn: skim, skip, skitter] 5: coat (a liquid) with a layer 6: remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of milk" [syn: skim, skim off, cream off, cream] 7: read superficially [syn: skim, skim over]

adj 1: being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street" [syn: slender, slight, slim, svelte] 2: small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus" [syn: slender, slim] v 1: take off weight [syn: reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down] [ant: gain, put on]

n 1: the act of swimming; "it was the swimming they enjoyed most": "they took a short swim in the pool" [syn: swimming, swim] v 1: travel through water; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank" 2: be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom [syn: float, swim] [ant: go down, go under, settle, sink] 3: be dizzy or giddy; "my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne" 4: be covered with or submerged in a liquid; "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy" [syn: swim, drown] 5: move as if gliding through water; "this snake swims through the soil where it lives"

n 1: a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor" [syn: energy, vim, vitality] 2: an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style" [syn: energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim]

n 1: a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse" [syn: caprice, impulse, whim] 2: an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it" [syn: notion, whim, whimsy, whimsey]

n 1: United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909) [syn: McKim, Charles Follen McKim]

n 1: a minor match preceding the main event [syn: preliminary, prelim] 2: an examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue [syn: preliminary examination, preliminary exam, prelim]