trim adj

1 thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise" [syn: spare]

2 (used of hair) neat and tidy; "a nicely kempt beard" [syn: kempt, tidy]

3 of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat" [syn: shipshape, well-kept]

4 (of persons) neat and smart in appearance; "a clean-cut and well-bred young man"; "the trig corporal in his jaunty cap" [syn: clean-cut, trig]

5 severely simple in line or design; "a neat tailored suit"; "tailored curtains" [syn: tailored]

1 a state of arrangement or appearance; "in good trim" [syn: trimness]

2 a decoration or adornment on a garment; "the trimming on a hat"; "the trim on a shirt" [syn: trimming, passementerie]

3 attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation

4 cutting down to the desired size or shape [syn: trimming, clipping]

1 remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber" [syn: pare]

2 decorate, as with ornaments; "trim the christmas tree"; "trim a shop window"

3 cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" [syn: reduce, cut down, cut back, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down]

4 balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces; "trim an airplane"

5 be in equilibrium during a flight; "The airplane trimmed"

6 decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods [syn: garnish, dress]

7 cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, lop, dress, prune, cut back]

8 cut closely; "trim my beard" [syn: shave]

9 adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used [also: trimming, trimmed, trimmest, trimmer]trimming

1 the act of adding decoration; "the children had to be in bed before it was time for the trimming of the tree"

2 a decoration or adornment on a garment; "the trimming on a hat"; "the trim on a shirt" [syn: trim, passementerie]

3 cutting down to the desired size or shape [syn: trim, clipping]trimming See trim

English

Noun

1. The act of someone who trims.

   I gave a good trimming to my elderly neighbour's hedges.

2. Material that is removed by someone trimming something, as a piece of steak.

   He gave the trimmings to the dog under the kitchen table.

Verb

trimming

1. Present participle of to trim.

   I am helping my elderly neighbour by trimming his hedge.

The word trim can mean:

• To remove part or all of something:
  • Book trimming, a part of the publishing process which involves trimming the pages of a book so they have even edges
  • Trim (programming), also called "strip", a function to remove white space from the ends of a string
  • In film editing, the process of shortening scenes by a few minutes, seconds, or even frames
  • "Trim", slang for a pubic region with trimmed pubic hair
  • In a lengthy electronic exchange (eg. Usenet), removing parts of the conversation that are no longer relevant -- see Posting style
• Adjust:
  • Adjustment of sails on a ship or boat
  • Adjustment of the angle of a ship to the water by shifting cargo or ballast.
  • Adjustment of airfoils on an aircraft
  • Adjustment of a variable resistor or capacitor
• Decorate; examples include
  • Trim a Christmas tree
  • Casing (moulding), a kind of decorative molding (Molding (decorative))
  • Trim package, a set of cosmetic (mostly non-functional) embellishments to a vehicle, such as an automobile
  • Trim (sewing) for clothing and home decorating, is applied ornament such as gimp, passementarie, ribbon, or, as a verb, to apply such ornament
• Slang term for fit (ie. healthy):
  • Trim trail, a special sort of trail that combines running with exercising
• In music and audio, the term used for sensitivity. Higher trim means that a greater magnitude of the audio waves are sampled.
• Trimming, the process of modifying parametric or polygonal surfaces in 3D computer graphics and CAD
• In stagecraft trim refers to a preset height at which a batten (theater) is used.

People

• Trim (rapper), a British grime MC

Places

• Trim, County Meath, a town and castle in Ireland
• Trim Station (OC Transpo), a bus station for OC Transpo buses in Ottawa, Canada
• Trim Road (Ottawa), a road in Ottawa

Other

• Trim (cat), the first feline to circumnavigate Australia
• Trimmed, a 1922 film starring Hoot Gibson

As an acronym

• Tidal, Residual, Inter-tidal Mudflat
• Tone Ringer Illuminated Model, a British telephone with a distinct ringing sound
• Trade-related Investment Measures, an agreement within the Uruguay Round trade negotiations
• Transfusion-related immunomodulation
• TRIM Context, a records management software product from TOWER Software
• Trim optimization, a set of techniques (algorithmic or heuristic or hybrid) to reduce the waste resulting from cutting an arbitrary set of demand rolls from a jumbo or master roll, in materials processing
• TRiM, Trauma Risk Management, is model of peer group traumatic stress management approved by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) within the UK and initially used by the Royal Marines

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