Core and Rim

Core

Core noun - The seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions.

Rim is an antonym for core.

Nearby Words: cored, coring

Rim

Rim noun - The line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something.
Usage example: the rim of a glass

Core is an antonym for rim.

Nearby Words: rimed, rimless

How words are described

actual actual core actual rim
entire entire core entire rim
inner inner core inner rim
damaged damaged core damaged rim

Both words in one sentence

  • Days of Future Past The core worlds colonized the rim worlds, and there hadn't originally been much central government.
  • Slobs Versus Snobs This serves to illustrate the rift between the polished, hi-tech core worlds and scruffy, wild-west rim worlds.
  • Going Native Nandi, former Companion (a ritualized and very high-class prostitute from the urban, "civilized" Core) turns tough-talking madam of a rim-world brothel.
    Source: Going Native
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