nim
pronunciation
How to pronounce nim in British English:
UK [nɪm]
How to pronounce nim in American English:
US [ nɪm]
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- Noun:
- game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining m
Word Origin
- nim (v.)
- "to take, to steal" (archaic), Old English niman "to take, accept, receive, grasp, catch" (cognates: Old Frisian nima, Middle Dutch nemen, German nehmen, Gothic niman; see nimble). The native word, replaced by Scandinavian-derived take (v.) and out of use from c. 1500 except in slang sense of "to steal," which endured into 19c.
Example
- 1. Marsh goes on to describe his impression of nim .
- 2. By the time project nim ended I was ready to cheer on the ape rebellion in rise of the planet of the apes .
- 3. Several years later a bigger stronger caesar attacks a neighbor while trying to protect rodman 's father and is sent away to a primate " sanctuary " that bears a striking resemblance to the oklahoma lab where nim lived right down to the cattle prods .
- 4. Lacking results , terrace once again took nim away from his mother .
- 5. Nim eventually gets some chimp companionship .