Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Trim   /trɪm/   Listen
noun
Trim  n.  
1.
Dress; gear; ornaments. "Seeing him just pass the window in his woodland trim."
2.
Order; disposition; condition; as, to be in good trim. " The trim of an encounter."
3.
The state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, etc., by which she is well prepared for sailing.
4.
(Arch) 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.
In ballast trim (Naut.), having only ballast on board.
Trim of the masts (Naut.), their position in regard to the ship and to each other, as near or distant, far forward or much aft, erect or raking.
Trim of sails (Naut.), that adjustment, with reference to the wind, witch is best adapted to impel the ship forward.


verb
Trim  v. t.  (past & past part. trimmed; pres. part. trimming)  
1.
To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust. "The hermit trimmed his little fire."
2.
To dress; to decorate; to adorn; to invest; to embellish; as, to trim a hat. "A rotten building newly trimmed over." "I was trimmed in Julia's gown."
3.
To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree. " And trimmed the cheerful lamp."
4.
(Carp.) To dress, as timber; to make smooth.
5.
(Naut.)
(a)
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.
(b)
To arrange in due order for sailing; as, to trim the sails.
6.
To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat. (Colloq.)
To trim in (Carp.), to fit, as a piece of timber, into other work.
To trim up, to dress; to put in order. "I found her trimming up the diadem On her dead mistress."


Trim  v. i.  To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favor each.


adjective
Trim  adj.  (compar. trimmer; superl. trimmest)  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. "With comely carriage of her countenance trim." "So deemed I till I viewed their trim array Of boats last night."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Trim" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mallorings' park and their long Georgian house, carefully fronting south. There, too, was the pond of what village there was, with the usual ducks on it; and three well-remembered cottages in a row, neat and trim, of the old, thatched sort, but evidently restored. Out of the door of one of them two young people had just emerged, going in the same direction as the car. Felix passed them and turned to look. Yes, it was they! He stopped the car. They ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... group may therefore go into a jar quite readily when moved toward the other end of the jar to that into which the post strap must go when in proper position for the cover. When the group is forced back into its proper position the strap may break the jar. It is a good plan not only to trim the ends of the negative straps perfectly flush, but to round the strap corners where they go into ...
— The Automobile Storage Battery - Its Care And Repair • O. A. Witte
... as he came. When he reached the landing, I turned the handle, and we entered the room together, closing the door after us. The blind was still down, and in the dim, uncertain light nothing out of the common was, at first, to be seen. The shabby little room looked trim and orderly enough, save for a heap of cast-off feminine clothing piled upon a chair. The bed appeared undisturbed except by the half-seen shape of its occupant, and the quiet face, dimly visible in its shadowy corner, might have ...
— John Thorndyke's Cases • R. Austin Freeman
... ladies declared that they should be delighted—they hoped that Miss Tarrant was in good trim; whereupon they were corrected by others, who reminded them that it wasn't her—she had nothing to do with it—so her trim didn't matter; and a gentleman added that he guessed there were many present ...
— The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) • Henry James
... with decision. "The most effective way in which to be generous to other people is to be strict with one's self; but it never occurred to me till lately. I've been so eager that my neighbor's garden should be trim and productive, that mine ...
— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com