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Trimmer   /trˈɪmər/   Listen
Trimmer

noun
1.
A worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs.  Synonym: pruner.
2.
A machine that trims timber.
3.
Capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine adjustments.  Synonym: trimming capacitor.
4.
Joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc..  Synonym: trimmer joist.


Trim

adjective
(compar. trimmer; superl. trimmest)
1.
Thin and fit.  Synonym: spare.  "A body kept trim by exercise"
2.
Of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder.  Synonyms: shipshape, well-kept.  "A trim little sailboat"
3.
Neat and smart in appearance.  Synonyms: clean-cut, trig.  "The trig corporal in his jaunty cap" , "A trim beard"
4.
Severely simple in line or design.  Synonym: tailored.  "Tailored curtains"



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"Trimmer" Quotes from Famous Books



... a fairly true characterization of Sophy Decker from one of fifty people: from a salesman in a New York or Chicago wholesale millinery house; from Otis Cowan, cashier of the First National Bank of Chippewa; from Julia Gold, her head milliner and trimmer; from almost anyone, in fact, except a member of her own family. They knew her least of all. Her three married sisters—Grace in Seattle, Ella in Chicago, and Flora in Chippewa—regarded her with a rather affectionate disapproval from ...
— One Basket • Edna Ferber
... be that on a Saturday evening the Young Gent would draw down his six dollars worth of salary and chase himself to the barber shop, where the Bolivian lawn trimmer would put a crimp in his mustache and plaster his forehead with three cents worth of hair and ...
— You Should Worry Says John Henry • George V. Hobart
... end to importunities for which he had as yet no reply, and he was enabled to slip within, where he found himself in a place of almost absolute quiet. Before him lay a basement hall leading to a kitchen, which, even at that moment, he noticed to be in trimmer condition than is usual where much housework is done, but he saw nothing that bespoke tragedy, or even a break in the ordinary routine of life as observed in houses of ...
— The Circular Study • Anna Katharine Green
... opportunities. In order that it should seize these one chief thing appeared imperative: doctrinal uniformity. The emperor himself, albeit unbaptised and very ignorant of Greek, came and seated himself in the midst of Christian thought upon a golden throne. At the end of it all Eusebius, that supreme Trimmer, was prepared to damn everlastingly all those who doubted that consubstantiality he himself had doubted at the beginning of the conference. It is quite clear that Constantine did not care who was damned or for what period, ...
— God The Invisible King • Herbert George Wells
... heard, even in America. But in the main, his prose pen was employed against the crown and the Church, while they still existed; against the king's memory, after the unfortunate monarch had fallen, and in favor of the parliament and all its acts. Milton was no trimmer; he gave forth no uncertain sound; he was partisan to the extreme, and left himself no loop-hole of retreat in the change that ...
— English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History - Designed as a Manual of Instruction • Henry Coppee


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