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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



... appearance. In single suits I saw sleeves of one color, the waist of another, the skirt of another; scarlet jackets and gray skirts; black waists and blue skirts; black skirts and gray waists; the trimming chiefly gold braid and buttons, to give a military air. The gray and gold uniforms of the officers, glittering between, made up a carnival of color. Every moment we saw strange meetings and partings ...
— Strange True Stories of Louisiana • George Washington Cable
... evaporation. The steam contains the aroma or fine volatile oil and essentials which pass into the air. In a fairly large family little meat need be purchased for the stock pot if the housewife insists that all portions of bone and trimming be sent with the purchased meat. The French women look with horror on the American women leaving all the scrap and trimming to ...
— Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book - Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions • Mary A. Wilson
... irresistible. In the presence of the irresistible the conventional is a crazy structure swept away with very little creaking of its timbers on the flood. When we feel its power we are immediately primitive creatures, flying anywhere in space, indifferent to nakedness. And after trimming ourselves for it, the sage asks your permission to add, it will be the thing we are most certain some day to feel. Had not she trimmed herself?—so much that she had won fame for an originality mistaken by her for the independent ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... the guides," said Mr. Waterman. "He's a corker. He's been up in through to Lac Corbeau trimming up some of ...
— Bob Hunt in Canada • George W. Orton
... simply because they looked for something deep and recondite, when the solution lay almost upon the very surface. Was Catharine sincerely in favor of peace? She was never sincere. Her Macchiavellian training, the enforced hypocrisy of her married life, the trimming policy she had thought herself compelled to pursue during the minority of the kings, her two sons, had eaten from her soul, even to its root, truthfulness—that pure plant of heaven's sowing. Loving peace only because it freed her from the fears, the embarrassments, the vexations of war—not ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird


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