Brim vs. Ocean — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Brim and Ocean
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Definitions
Brim
The uppermost edge of a hollow container or natural basin.
Ocean
The ocean (also the sea or the world ocean) is the body of salt water which covers approximately 71% of the surface of the Earth and contains 97% of Earth's water. Another definition is "any of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is divided".
Brim
A projecting rim or edge, especially around the bottom of a hat.
Ocean
The entire body of salt water that covers more than 70 percent of the earth's surface.
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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Ocean
Abbr. Oc. or O. Any of the principal divisions of the ocean, including the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans.
Brim
To be full to the brim, often to overflowing
The cup is brimming with chowder.
Ocean
A great expanse or amount
"that ocean of land which is Russia" (Henry A. Kissinger).
Brim
To be abundantly filled or supplied
A monument brimming with tourists.
Workers brimming with pride.
Ocean
(countable) One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
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Brim
To fill to the brim.
Ocean
(uncountable) Water belonging to an ocean.
The island is surrounded by ocean
Brim
(obsolete) The sea; ocean; water; flood.
Ocean
(figuratively) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits.
The boundless ocean of eternity
An ocean of difference
Brim
An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water).
Ocean
A blue colour, like that of the ocean (also called ocean blue).
Brim
The topmost rim or lip of a container.
The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.
Ocean
The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; - called also the sea, or great sea.
Like the odor of brine from the oceanComes the thought of other years.
Brim
A projecting rim, especially of a hat.
He turned the back of his brim up stylishly.
Ocean
One of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans.
Brim
(intransitive) To be full to overflowing.
The room brimmed with people.
Ocean
An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs.
You're gonna need an oceanOf calamine lotion.
Brim
(transitive) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
Ocean
Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream.
Brim
Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.
Ocean
A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
Brim
(obsolete) Fierce; sharp; cold.
Ocean
Anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
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
