Definitions for TRIM
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trim, trimnessnoun

   a state of arrangement or appearance

   "in good trim"

2. trimming, trim, passementerienoun

   a decoration or adornment on a garment

   "the trimming on a hat"; "the trim on a shirt"

3. trimnoun

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

4. trim, trimming, clippingadjective

   cutting down to the desired size or shape

5. spare, trimadjective

   thin and fit

   "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"

6. shipshape, trim, well-keptadjective

   of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder

   "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat"

7. clean-cut, trig, trimadjective

   neat and smart in appearance

   "a clean-cut and well-bred young man"; "the trig corporal in his jaunty cap"; "a trim beard"

8. tailored, trimverb

   severely simple in line or design

   "a neat tailored suit"; "tailored curtains"

9. pare, trimverb

   remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size

   "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber"

10. trimverb

    decorate, as with ornaments

    "trim the christmas tree"; "trim a shop window"

11. reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring downverb

    cut down on; make a reduction in

    "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"

12. trimverb

    balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces

    "trim an airplane"

13. trimverb

    be in equilibrium during a flight

    "The airplane trimmed"

14. trim, garnish, dressverb

    decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods

15. snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut backverb

    cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

    "dress the plants in the garden"

16. shave, trimverb

    cut closely

    "trim my beard"

17. trimverb

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trimnoun

   decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders

   Paint the house white with blue trim.

2. trimnoun

   a haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style

   I went to the hairdresser for a trim and came back nearly bald.

3. trimnoun

   the manner in which something is equipped or adorned; especially, of a car

   The car comes in three different trims.

4. trimnoun

   sexual intercourse

5. trimnoun

   The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast; the manner in which a vessel floats on the water, whether on an even keel or down by the head or stern

6. trimnoun

   The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.

7. trimverb

   to reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'.

8. trimverb

   to decorate or adorn; especially, to decorate a Christmas tree

   They traditionally trim the tree on Christmas Eve.

9. trimverb

   To modify the angle of a vessel to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause a vessel to assume, a certain position, or trim, in the water. (FM 55-501).

10. trimverb

    To modify the angle of a vessel's sails relative to the wind, especially to set the sails to the most advantageous angle.

11. trimadverb

    In good order, properly managed or maintained.

12. trimadverb

    With sails well trimmed.

13. trimadjective

    physically fit

    He goes jogging every day to keep trim.

14. trimadjective

    slender, lean; as a trim figure

15. trimadjective

    neat or smart in appearance; as a trim lawn

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Trimadjective

   Nice; smug; dressed up.

   Etymology: getrymmeð , Saxon, completed.

   Tone paine in cottage doth take,
   When t’other trim bowers do make. Thomas Tusser, Husb.

   A trim exploit, a manly enterprize,
   To conjure tears up in a poor maid’s eyes
   With your derision. William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night’s Dream.

   The Dorick order has, in comparison of those that follow, a more masculine aspect, and little trimmer than the Tuscan that went before, save a sober garnishment now and then of lions heads in the cornice, and of triglyphs and metopes always in the frize. Henry Wotton, Architect.

   Dost thou not blush to live so like a beast,
   So trim, so dissolute, so loosely drest. John Dryden, Persius.

2. Trimnoun

   Dress; geer; ornaments.

   They come like sacrifices in their trim,
   And to the five-ey’d maid of smoaky war,
   All hot, and bleeding, will we offer them. William Shakespeare.

   Forget
   Your laboursome and dainty trims, wherein
   You made great Juno angry. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

   The goodly London in her gallant trim,
   The phœnix daughter of the vanquish’d old,
   Like a rich bride does to the ocean swim,
   And on her shadow rides in floating gold. Dryden.

3. To Trimverb

   Etymology: trimman , Saxon, to build.

   1. To fit out.

   Malicious censurers ever,
   As rav’nous fishes do a vessel follow
   That is new trimm’d. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   2. To dress; to decorate.

   Our youth got me to play the woman’s part,
   And I was trim’d in Julia’s gown. William Shakespeare.

   Pennyroyal and orpin they use in the country to trim their houses, binding it with a lath against a wall. Francis Bacon.

   Two arts attend architecture, like her principal gentlewomen, to dress and trim her, picture and sculpture. Henry Wotton.

   The victim ox that was for altars prest,
   Trimm’d with white ribbons and with garlands drest,
   Sunk of himself. John Dryden, Georg.

   3. To shave; to clip.

   Mephibosheth had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard. 2 Sam. xix. 24.

   Clip and trim those tender strings like a beard. Brown.

   The barber may trim religion as he pleases. James Howell.

   Trim off the small superfluous branches. John Mortimer.

   4. To make neat; to adjust.

   I found her trimming up the diadem
   On her dead mistress. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopatra.

   Go, sirrah, to my cell, as you look
   To have my pardon, trim it handsomely. William Shakespeare.

   Yet are the men more loose than they!
   More kemb’d, and bath’d, and rubb’d, and trimm’d
   More sleek, more soft, and slacker limb’d. Ben Jonson.

   To blast the living, gave the dead their due,
   And wreaths, herself had tainted, trimm’d anew. Thomas Tickell.

   When workmen fit a piece into other work, they say they trim in a piece. Joseph Moxon, Mech. Exercises.

   Each muse in Leo’s golden days
   Starts from her trance, and trims her wither’d bays. Alexander Pope.

   5. To balance a vessel.

   Sir Roger put his coachman to trim the boat. Spectator.

   6. It has often up emphatical.

   He gave you all the duties of a man,
   Trimm’d up your praises with a princely tongue,
   Spoke your deservings like a chronicle. William Shakespeare.

4. To Trimverb

   To balance; to fluctuate between two parties.

   If such by trimming and time-serving, which are but two words for the same thing, betray the church by nauseating her pious orders, this will produce confusion. Robert South, Serm.

   For men to pretend that their will obeys that law, while all besides their will serves the faction; what is this but a gross, fulsome juggling with their duty, and a kind of trimming it between God and the devil. Robert South, Sermons.

   He who heard what ev’ry fool cou’d say,
   Wou’d never fix his thought, but trim his time away. John Dryden, Hind and Panther.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trim

   Trim generally refers to the act of cutting off, removing, or reducing something. It can refer to making something neat or smaller in size by cutting away irregular or unwanted parts. It can also mean decorating or adding a finishing touch to something. In other contexts, it could refer to the upholstery, finish, accessories, or extras included in a vehicle or a building.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Trimverb

   to make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust

2. Trimverb

   to dress; to decorate; to adorn; to invest; to embellish; as, to trim a hat

3. Trimverb

   to make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree

4. Trimverb

   to dress, as timber; to make smooth

5. Trimverb

   to adjust, as a ship, by arranging the cargo, or disposing the weight of persons or goods, so equally on each side of the center and at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well; as, to trim a ship, or a boat

6. Trimverb

   to arrange in due order for sailing; as, to trim the sails

7. Trimverb

   to rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat

8. Trimverb

   to balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favor each

9. Trimnoun

   dress; gear; ornaments

10. Trimnoun

    order; disposition; condition; as, to be in good trim

11. Trimnoun

    the state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, etc., by which she is well prepared for sailing

12. Trimnoun

    the lighter woodwork in the interior of a building; especially, that used around openings, generally in the form of a molded architrave, to protect the plastering at those points

13. Trimverb

    fitly adjusted; being in good order., or made ready for service or use; firm; compact; snug; neat; fair; as, the ship is trim, or trim built; everything about the man is trim; a person is trim when his body is well shaped and firm; his dress is trim when it fits closely to his body, and appears tight and snug; a man or a soldier is trim when he stands erect

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Trim

   Trim or trimming in clothing and home decorating is applied ornament, such as gimp, passementerie, ribbon, ruffles, or, as a verb, to apply such ornament. Before the industrial revolution, all trim was made and applied by hand, thus making heavily trimmed furnishings and garments expensive and high-status. Machine-woven trims and sewing machines put these dense trimmings within the reach of even modest dressmakers and home sewers, and an abundance of trimming is a characteristic of mid-Victorian fashion. As a predictable reaction, high fashion came to emphasize exquisiteness of cut and construction over denseness of trimming, and applied trim became a signifier of mass-produced clothing by the 1930s. The iconic braid and gold button trim of the Chanel suit are a notable survival of trim in high fashion. In home decorating, the 1980s and 1990s saw a fashion for dense, elaborately layered trimmings on upholstered furniture and drapery. Today, most trimmings are commercially manufactured. Scalamandré is known for elaborate trim for home furnishings, and Wrights is a leading manufacturer of trim for home sewing and crafts. Trims are used generally to enhance the beauty of the garments. It attracts buyers. Appropriate use of it creates more value of the product.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Trim

   trim, adj. in good order: nice.—v.t. to make trim: to put in due order: to dress: to decorate: to clip: to reduce to proper form: to arrange for sailing: to rebuke sharply, to thrash.—v.i. to balance or fluctuate between parties:—pr.p. trim′ming; pa.t. and pa.p. trimmed.—n. dress: ornaments: state of a ship as to sailing qualities: arrangement.—adv. Trim′ly.—ns. Trim′mer, one who trims: one who fluctuates between parties, a time-server: a scold: a small horizontal beam on a floor into which the ends of joists are framed: a float bearing a baited hook and line, used in fishing for pike; Trim′ming, that which trims: ornamental parts, esp. of a garment, dish, &c.: (pl.) fittings.—adv. Trim′mingly.—n. Trim′ness. [A.S. trymian, to strengthen, set in order—trum, firm.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trim

   The difference in draft at the bow and stern of a vessel or the manner in which a vessel floats in the water based on the distribution of cargo, stores and ballast aboard the vessel. See also draft; watercraft.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trim

   The set of a ship on the water, whether by the head or the stern, or on an even keel. It is by the disposition of the ballast, cargo, masts, and other weight which she carries, that a vessel is best adapted for navigation. Also, the working or finishing of any piece of timber or plank to its proper shape or form.--In trim, is neat and regular.--To trim, is to arrange the sails so that they may receive the full advantage of the wind.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trim

   The chief town of the county of Meath, Ireland, on the Boyne, 27 miles northwest from Dublin. It was taken by Cromwell in 1649.

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1. TRIM

   What does TRIM stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the TRIM acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TRIM

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Trim is ranked #13474 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Trim surname appeared 2,258 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Trim.
   
   65.5% or 1,480 total occurrences were White.
   29% or 656 total occurrences were Black.
   1.9% or 44 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.9% or 43 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.1% or 25 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.4% or 10 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Adjust
   • Attitude
   • Balance
   • Be
   • Cut
   • Decorate
   • Neatness
   • Ship

Anagrams for TRIM »

1. RMIT

How to pronounce TRIM?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say TRIM in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of TRIM in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of TRIM in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of TRIM in a Sentence

1. Morgan Stanley:

   A 5 percent cost trim could boost 2017 earnings per share by 11 percent and by 8 percent over 2017-21.

2. Officer Brady:

   If I'm going to trim half of my lunch [period] to go meet a kid, have a great interaction — and someday one kid won't think twice about actually telling a cop when they need help or are just asking a question — then I did my job.

3. Gardiner Hallock:

   You think of what it took to build Monticello – you need people who made bricks, people who laid the bricks, who chopped the wood, converted it into fine trim and woodwork and then installed it, and then there's people who need to plaster the interior walls as well and lay the floors - and slave craftsmen were involved with all of those steps.

4. Liu Zhiquan:

   For those governments that have already pushed out relocation plans for their heavy industries without taking environmental capacity into consideration, they would probably need to reshape their plans and trim other industries in their regions.

5. Thomas Tusser:

   For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine, For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine, For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve, For the next matrons or drudges they serve, For the next doth crave a staff for a stay, For the next a bier to fetch them away.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=TRIM
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Trim
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=TRIM
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/TRIM
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=TRIM
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=TRIM
8. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=TRIM
10. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
11. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html