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Trim

noun

1.

A state of arrangement or appearance. Synonym: trimness.

2.

A decoration or adornment on a garment. Synonyms: passementerie, trimming. "The trim on a shirt"

3.

Attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation.

4.

Cutting down to the desired size or shape. Synonyms: clipping, trimming.

verb

(past & past part. trimmed; pres. part. trimming)

1.

Remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size. Synonym: pare. "Trim the photograph" , "Trim lumber"

2.

Decorate, as with ornaments. "Trim a shop window"

3.

Cut down on; make a reduction in. Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim back, trim down. "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"

4.

Balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces.

5.

Be in equilibrium during a flight.

6.

Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods. Synonyms: dress, garnish.

7.

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of. Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip.

8.

Cut closely. Synonym: shave.

9.

Adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used.

adjective

(compar. trimmer; superl. trimmest)

1.

Thin and fit. Synonym: spare. "A body kept trim by exercise"

2.

Of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder. Synonyms: shipshape, well-kept. "A trim little sailboat"

3.

Neat and smart in appearance. Synonyms: clean-cut, trig. "The trig corporal in his jaunty cap" , "A trim beard"

4.

Severely simple in line or design. Synonym: tailored. "Tailored curtains"

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"Trim" Quotes from Famous Books

... dramatist expect actors to portray his actions? During Hamlet's fencing match with Laertes in the last scene the Queen says, "He's fat, and scant of breath." Was she describing his size, or meaning that he was out of fencing trim? ...

— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton

... bedpost. There was such a charm in her way of adapting these treasures, that the other girls liked to test her with new problems in the way of millinery and dress-making; millionnaire friends implored her to trim their hats, and lent her their own things in order to learn how to wear them. This applied especially to certain rich cousins, shy and studious girls, who adored her, and to whom society only ceased to be alarming when the brilliant Kate took them under her wing, and graciously accepted a few ...

— Malbone - An Oldport Romance • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... about twenty-five, are neat, clean, trim craft, no longer coppered perpendicularly [Footnote: Still occurs sometimes: the idea is that as they roll more than they sail less strain is brought on the seams of the copper.] instead of horizontally after the older fashion. Skippers and crews are well paid for the voyage, which ...

— To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II - A Personal Narrative • Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron

... a more curious fact that the males of some birds which are provided with special weapons for battle, and which in a state of nature are so pugnacious that they often kill each other, suffer from possessing certain ornaments. Cock-fighters trim the hackles and cut off the combs and gills of their cocks; and the birds are then said to be dubbed. An undubbed bird, as Mr. Tegetmeier insists, "is at a fearful disadvantage; the comb and gills offer an easy hold to his adversary's beak, and as a cock always strikes where ...

— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin

... the feast to sway, Or keep Mirth's boat in better trim; For Nature had but little clay Like that of which she moulded him. The meanest guest that graced his board Was there the freest of the free, His bumper toast when Peter poured, And passed it round with ...

— Headlong Hall • Thomas Love Peacock

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