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| Main Entry: |
brimming/brimful
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overflowing; up to the top |
| Synonyms: | awash, chock-full, crammed, crowded, filled, flush, full, full to the top, jammed, level with, loaded, overfull, packed, running over, stuffed, topfull |
| Antonyms: | empty, unfilled |
| Main Entry: | stuffed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crammed |
| Synonyms: | bursting, crowded, filled, full, glutted, gorged, jam-packed, jammed, loaded, overflowing, packed, packed like sardines, running over, satisfied, saturated, tight |
| Main Entry: | heaping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sated |
| Synonyms: | abundant, full, running over |
| Main Entry: | brimming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overflowing |
| Synonyms: | awash, brimful, chock-full, crammed, crowded, filled, flush, full, jammed, level with, loaded, overfull, packed, running over, stuffed, topfull |
| Antonyms: | empty, unfilled |
| Main Entry: | brim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flow over the top |
| Synonyms: | fill, fill up, hold no more, overflow, run over, spill, swell, teem, well over |
| Main Entry: | dip into |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | try, sample |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, browse, dabble, flip through, get, glance at, glance over, leaf through, peruse, play at, rifle through, run over, run through, scan, seize, skim, take, taste, thumb through |
| Main Entry: | estimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | guess, try to value |
| Synonyms: | account, appraise, assay, assess, believe, budget, calculate roughly, cast, cipher, class, classify, compute, conjecture, consider, count, decide, deduce, determine, enumerate, evaluate, examine, expect, figure, form opinion, gauge, guess, guesstimate, judge, look into, look upon, number, outline, plan, predict, prophesy, rank, rate, reason, reckon, regard, run over, scheme, set a figure, size up, sum, suppose, surmise, suspect, tax, think, think through |
| Notes: | estimate implies a calculation has been performed and it is on that basis that a judgment or valuation is being made, while estimation implies that an on-the-spot evaluation is being performed and that it is an opinion based on that evaluation; an estimate conveys a more reasoned or impersonal judgment than an estimation |
| Main Entry: | frisk |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | search |
| Synonyms: | check, fan, inspect, run over, shake down |
| Main Entry: | glance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | look at briefly |
| Synonyms: | browse, check out, dip into, flash*, flip through, gaze, get a load of, glimpse, leaf through, peek, peep, peer, riffle through, run over, run through, scan, see, skim through, take a gander, take in, thumb through, view |
| Notes: | a glance captures more than a glimpse; the verb glance takes no object while glimpse does |
| Antonyms: | stare |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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