Nim Definition

nĭm
nam, nimmed, nimming, nome, nomen
noun
A game in which players in turn remove small objects from a collection, such as matchsticks arranged in rows, and attempt to take, or avoid taking, the last one.
American Heritage
verb
To steal or pilfer.
Webster's New World

(intransitive, UK dialectal) To walk with short, quick strides; trip along.

Wiktionary

Origin of Nim

  • From Middle English nimen (“to take"), from Old English niman (“to take"), from Proto-Germanic *nemanÄ… (“to take"), from Proto-Indo-European *neme- (“to give or take one's due"). Cognate with West Frisian nimme (“to take"), Low German nehmen (“to take"), Dutch nemen (“to take"), German nehmen (“to take"), Danish nemme (“to learn, grasp"). Related to numb, nimble.

    From Wiktionary

  • Perhaps from German nimm second person sing. imperative of nehmen to take from Middle High German nemen from Old High German neman nem- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Nim Sentence Examples

  • At marriage they burn benzoin with nim seeds (Melia Azadirachta, Roxburgh) to keep off evil spirits, and prepare the bride-cakes by putting a quantity of benzoin between layers of wheaten dough, closed all round, and frying them in clarified butter.

  • This nether his -ld was known as the Duat (Dat, Ti), and through it passed in t sun on his journey during the hours of night; here too, as nim sy thought, dwelt the dead and their king Osiris.

  • That great nim ural feature of Egypt, the Nile, was of course one of the gods; mer name was Hapi, and as a sign of his fecundity he had long and dulous breasts like a woman.

  • These are short but fair-sized streams. Near the Kunlong ferry the Nam Nim, on the right bank, and the Nam Ting, on the left, are considerably longer, and the Nam Ting is navigable by native craft for considerable stretches up to Meng Ting and farther.

  • In the legend of nimbarka, he stops the sun setting by catching it in a nim tree.

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