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Used for making fine adjustments
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trimmer
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A trimmer or preset is a miniature adjustable electrical component. It is meant to be set correctly when installed in some device, and never seen or adjusted by the device's user. Trimmers can be variable resistors ( potentiometers ), variable capacitors ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN hedge ▪ When working with a hedge trimmer , run the supply cable over one shoulder well away from the blades. ▪ Cordless technology is still not perfect, but Black &038; Decker is the first to try a battery-powered hedge ...
Usage examples of trimmer.
The prole was big and square and on the rugged side, the other was trimmer.
There were truck-weighers, coal tram-weighers, engineers, stokers, tenders, strikers, lampmen, cogmen, banksmiths, rubbish-tippers, greasers, screeners, trimmers, labourers, small-coal pickers, doorboys, hitchers, hauliers, firemen .
He hopped up off his chair, went over and grabbed the trimmers from Melissa, and cut the branch that was driving him crazy.
A sailor's eye would have seen that she was even trimmer than usual, with her furled sails skinned up in the bunt and her head-braces lying in perfect Flemish fakes, while even a landsman would have noticed that the officers had abandoned their usual working clothes of easy nankeen pantaloons and light jackets for undress uniform and Hessian boots, while the bargemen were already in their snowy trousers, bright blue jackets and best straw hats, ready to row their Captain ashore as soon as he was invited.
Ted Eddings had equipped a small bedroom with an arbor press, digital scale, case trimmer, reloading dies and everything else needed to keep him in cartridges.
Lisa told me he'd lived in vans and communes, working variously as a roofer, tree trimmer, bean picker, fry cook, and forklift operatornever with any noticeable ambition or success.
Shears's house, was in her front garden cutting her hedge with an electric hedge trimmer.
And when his uncle died in a freak indecent exposure / hedge trimmer accident, hadnt it been Old Pete who gathered up the pieces and dug the grave himself?
Instantly trapped, I heard Raul trying to start a motorized hedge trimmer.
Trouble is, whoever's been doing you must have been using hedge trimmers and no highlight puncher, either.
Catching a male and cutting off a handful of its neck ruff might require a healthy sprint on the part of the would-be wool trimmer, but it wasn't as if a lengthy dash across the plains was going to be necessary.
And firemen, stokers, engineers, trimmers, working to keep the boilers going and the dynamos running and the wireless working, the lights on.
In Miami a good tree trimmer always had his hands full: year-round growth, no real seasons, no time for rest.