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Definition: Grime |
GrimeNoun1. The state of being covered with unclean things. Verb1. Make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grime" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
GrimE is an adventure game engine, created at LucasArts. It was first used for the game Grim Fandango.GrimE was the successor to SCUMM. It preserved some of that engine's features. Like SCUMM it is based around characters and objects which interact with each other, on top of pre-rendered backgrounds. The major difference between GrimE and SCUMM is that the engine which deals with character rendering and movement in GrimE is a true 3D engine; characters are collections of 3D-rendered polygons and movement is controlled in full 3D by the keyboard. There are other, less obvious differences; the way actions are scripted, for example, is completely different, and allows for much more sophisticated movements and actions by non-player characters.
After Grim Fandango, a slightly improved GrimE engine was used in Escape From Monkey Island, the fourth game in the Monkey Island series.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "GrimE."
Synonyms: GrimeSynonyms: dirt (n), filth (n), grease (n), grunge (n), stain (n), begrime (v), bemire (v), colly (v), dirty (v), soil (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: clean (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff; sossle, sozzle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Grime |
| English words defined with "grime": dirty ♦ smeared, smirched, smudged, smudgy, soiled ♦ unclean. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "grime": AUTOMOBILE DETAILER, automobile washer, steam ♦ boot polisher ♦ shoe polisher, SHOE SHINER, STEAM CLEANER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "grime": Killow. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Life of Grime (1999) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | "A shallow North Korean stream provides a natural washtub for the 1st Marine Division Leatherneck as he takes advantage of a lull in the fighting to clean off the dust and grime of battle. In the background, UN truck moves up with supplies for the front." Photograph and caption released by Commander Naval Forces Far East, under date of 2 July 1951. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Grime" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.47% of the time. "Grime" is used about 131 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.47% | 129 | 28,132 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.53% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 131 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "grime" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Grime | Last name | 130 | 56,938 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "grime": grime-covered, grime-grey, grime-sprayed, grime-streaked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
grime | 106 | appraisal county district grime | 8 |
madonna grime | 47 | grime tattoo | 8 |
martha grime | 39 | gary grime | 8 |
scott grime | 33 | henry grime | 8 |
grace grime | 28 | grime roger | 7 |
grime county texas | 28 | grime motor | 7 |
grime county | 26 | bishop grime | 6 |
tammy grime | 24 | corbin grime | 6 |
grime ia | 20 | grime owen | 6 |
camryn grime | 18 | peter grime | 6 |
grime kalen | 17 | tiny grime | 5 |
grime tinsley | 17 | center dallas grime | 5 |
camp grime | 16 | grime road | 5 |
grime aerospace | 15 | grime county texas real estate | 5 |
grime iowa | 12 | grime vic | 5 |
john grime | 10 | karolyn grime | 4 |
county fair grime | 10 | grime kaler ober shriver | 4 |
nikki grime | 10 | grime owen realty | 4 |
frank grime | 9 | real estate grime county | 4 |
diana grime lee | 9 | tom grime | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "grime"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zhul (scum, slime), zgjyrë (cinder, clinker, dross, rust, scum, slag), ndot (bedaub, besmirch, bespatter, contaminate, defile, dirty, disgust, foul, pollute, repugnance, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splash). (various references) | |
Arabic | وسخ متمكن, وسخ (bedraggle, befoul, begrime, defiled, dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubbiness, litter, mess up, offset, ordure, scum, slattern, smut, soil, soot, sordid, stain, tarnish), سخام (bloat, colly, crock, smut, soot). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цапам (daub, mess, muck, paddle, puddle, soil, stain, sully), кир (dirt, filth), нечистотия (dirt, dirtiness, filthiness, impurity, manginess), мърся (dirty, pollute), мръсотия (beastliness, dirt, dirtiness, filth, foulness, impurity, mess, muck, mud, obscenity, offscourings, ordure, squalor). (various references) | |
Czech | neèistota (dirt, impurity), špína (dirt, filth, filthiness, impurity, soil, squalor). (various references) | |
Farsi | چرک کردن (Putrefy, Stain, Suppurate), چرک سیاه کردن , دوده (Black, Smut, Soot). (various references) | |
French | salir, saleté (grubbiness), crasse (grubbiness). (various references) | |
German | Schmutz (dirt, dirtiness, dung, filth, grimes, muck, mud, ordure, smudginess, smut, sordidness, squalor). (various references) | |
Greek | ρύποσ (dirt, filth), βρομιά (muck, stink), λέρα (dirtiness, filth, soil, speck, splotch), λερώνω (bedraggle, befoul, begrime, besmear, besmirch, bespatter, blacken, defile, dirty, foul, moil, slur, smear, smirch, soil, splotch, stain, sully). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ללכלך (befoul, daub, dirty, foul, muck, smirch, smudge, soil, stain, sully), לז"ם (contaminate, infect, pollute, taint). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szenny (dirt, filth, muck, scuz, scuzz, squalor), korom (black, carbon deposit, lampblack, smut, soot), mocsok (Colly, creep, defilement, muck, ordure, scuz, scuzz, sleaze, sleazebag, smirch, sodding, squalor). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengotori (dash off, defile, mess, pollute, slobber), daki (ascend, climb, mount, skin-dirt). (various references) | |
Italian | sudiciume (dinginess, dirt, filth, filthiness, frowziness, muck, nastiness, raunchiness, scruffiness). (various references) | |
Manx | sollaghey (assault, assault sexually, begrime, besmear, besmirch, contaminate, contamination, defile, defilement, dirty, muck, muddy, pollute, pollution, soil, soiling, stain, sully), scoodyn (ring, scum, tidemark, tidemark on neck), scoig (scruff, throttle), broid (blow, dirt, filth, pollutant, smut). (various references) | |
Norwegian | sot, skitt (dirt, filth). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imegray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sujeira (dirt, filth, foulness, grubbiness, mess, muck, smirch, smut, soil), sujar (bedabble, befoul, begrime, besmear, besmirch, blemish, blotch, daub, defile, dirt, dirty, dishallow, drabble, draggle, foul, make it wrong, mess, muck, muddy, slubber, smirch, smoke, smudge, soil, stain, sully), p de carvo, fuligem (black, crock, smut, soot), engordurado (oily), encardir, encardimento. (various references) | |
Romanian | murdãrie (contamination, corruption, defilement, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, dishonesty, dung, filth, filthiness, foulness, greasiness, litter, maculation, mess, muck, nastiness, naughty words, offscourings, ordure, puddle, refuse, rust, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, squalidity), mânji (bedaub, beddable, besmear, besmirch, blur, daub, defile, foul, mess, smirch, soil, stain, sully), jeg (dirt, greasiness), funingine (smoke, smut, soot). (various references) | |
Russian | сажа (carbon black, smoke-black, smut, soot). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | garež (soot), prljavština (dirt, dirtiness, filth, impurity, muck, squalor). (various references) | |
Spanish | tiznar (begrime, smudge), mugre (dirt, dirtiness, grease, squalor). (various references) | |
Swedish | sot (sickness, soot), smutsa ned (sully), smuts (dirt, dirtiness, filth, foulness, muck, night-soil, ordure, squalor). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำให้เปื้อน (mire, smirch, soil), รอยเปื้อน (smear, smudge, smutch, taint). (various references) | |
Turkish | pisletmek (befoul, begrime, bemire, besmear, besmirch, dirty, make a mess of, make dirty, mess, muck, smutch, soil), kirletmek (bedaub, befoul, begrime, bemire, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, daub, defile, dirty, foul, foul up, make dirty, mess, pollute, rape, slur, smear, smirch, smutch, soil, spatter, stain, sully, tarnish, vitiate), kir (dirt, filth, smear, smirch, soil, stain, tarnish). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | неохайність (dirtiness, grubbiness, negligence, slapdash, untidiness), бруд (dirt, feculence, filth, foul, foulness, mullock, squalor). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | than (consumption, scoop), cáu ghét, b" hóng (smoke-black, soot). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle High German | 1100-1500 | greme. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "grime": grimed, grimes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "grime": begrime. (additional references) | |
Words containing "grime": begrimed, begrimes. (additional references) | |
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"Grime" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: egrim, Gareme, Geremew, gime, gimey, Gimi, gimme, gimu, glime, goiem, Graiae, Grami, gramo, greame, greige, Gremmo, greyie, gribe, Gride, grie, grieb, grieg, Griem, griex, grife, Grifel, grige, grike, grimae, grimaee, Grimaux, grimce, Grimek, grimel, grimer, grimet, grimey, grimm, Grimmia, grimn, grimp, Grimpe, grimper, grims, grine, grinse, grise, grism, grite, grive, griwe, groje, grome, grone, Grumio, grune, Gryke, Grzimek, Guigma, Guimet, gwine, Ngiriye, urime. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "grime" (pronounced grī"m) |
| 3 | -r ī" m | anticrime, prime, crime, rhyme. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-m-r" | |
-1 letter: emir, germ, grim, mire, rime. | |
-2 letters: erg, gem, gie, ire, meg, mig, mir, reg, rei, rem, rig, rim. | |
-3 letters: em, er, me, mi, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-m-r" | |
+1 letter: begrim, emigre, gamier, grimed, grimes, imager, maigre, megrim, mirage, regime. | |
+2 letters: armiger, begrime, begrims, emigres, epigram, gambier, gammier, gemmier, germier, germina, gimpier, gisarme, glimmer, gomeril, gremial, gremlin, gremmie, grimace, grimier, grimmer, gripmen, gummier, imagers, imagery, immerge, impregn, mangier, megrims, merging, metring, migrate, mingier, mingler, mirages, misgrew, muggier, ogreism, perming, primage, ragtime, reaming, regimen, regimes, reimage, remiges, terming. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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