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Trimming   /trˈɪmɪŋ/   Listen
Trimming

noun
1.
The act of adding decoration.
2.
A decoration or adornment on a garment.  Synonyms: passementerie, trim.  "The trim on a shirt"
3.
Cutting down to the desired size or shape.  Synonyms: clipping, trim.


Trim

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.



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"Trimming" Quotes from Famous Books



... conviction settled by long residence in the interior. I have come to understand the unspeakable loveliness of a solitary spray of blossoms arranged as only a Japanese expert knows how to arrange it—not by simply poking the spray into a vase, but by perhaps one whole hour's labour of trimming and posing and daintiest manipulation—and therefore I cannot think now of what we Occidentals call a 'bouquet' as anything but a vulgar murdering of flowers, an outrage upon the colour-sense, a brutality, an abomination. Somewhat in the same way, and for similar reasons, ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn
... thirty inches wide, with so and so many threads to the warp—according to the specifications. But what soldier will ever think of counting the threads in his blouse, or know whether it was cut from goods thirty inches wide or twenty-eight? So, you see, with a little trimming here and a little paring there we can make a good hundred thousand florins out of ...
— Manasseh - A Romance of Transylvania • Maurus Jokai
... trees that had been grafted had three different kinds of fruit on them, and others had three kinds of apples on them besides the pears. This grafting I did myself, and the trees were considered very fine by Boss. Another part of my work was the trimming of the hedge and the ...
— Thirty Years a Slave • Louis Hughes
... many ways of thinning and pruning and trimming her forests,—lightning-strokes, heavy snow, and storm-winds to shatter and blow down whole trees here and there or break off branches as required. The results of these methods I have observed in ...
— The Story of My Boyhood and Youth • John Muir
... employed by a great man, becomes a most dastardly "schema mundi" when taken up by a school of little men. Therefore the only help which we can hope for from the Peelites is that they will serve as ballast and cooling pump to both parties, but their very trimming and moderation make them fearfully likely to obtain power. It depends on the wisdom of the present government, whether they ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al


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