Crossword clues for trimming
trimming
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trim \Trim\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trimmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Trimming.] [OE. trimen, trumen, AS. trymian, trymman, to prepare, dispose, make strong, fr. trum firm, strong; of uncertain origin.]
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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.
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To dress; to decorate; to adorn; to invest; to embellish; as, to trim a hat.
A rotten building newly trimmed over.
--Milton.I was trimmed in Julia's gown.
--Shak. 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.''
--Byron.(Carp.) To dress, as timber; to make smooth.
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(Naut.)
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.
To arrange in due order for sailing; as, to trim the sails.
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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.
--Shak.
Trimming \Trim"ming\, a. from Trim, v.
The Whigs are, essentially, an inefficient, trimming,
halfway sort of a party.
--Jeffrey.
Trimming joist (Arch.), a joist into which timber trimmers
are framed; a header. See Header.
--Knight.
Trimming \Trim"ming\, n.
The act of one who trims.
That which serves to trim, make right or fitting, adjust, ornament, or the like; especially, the necessary or the ornamental appendages, as of a garment; hence, sometimes, the concomitants of a dish; a relish; -- usually in the plural.
The act of reprimanding or chastisting; as, to give a boy a trimming. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of someone who trims. 2 Material that is removed by someone trimming something, as a piece of steak. 3 An accompaniment to a meal. 4 (context colloquial dated English) A reprimand or chastise. vb. (present participle of trim English)
WordNet
adj. thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise" [syn: spare]
(used of hair) neat and tidy; "a nicely kempt beard" [syn: kempt, tidy]
of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat" [syn: shipshape, well-kept]
(of persons) neat and smart in appearance; "a clean-cut and well-bred young man"; "the trig corporal in his jaunty cap" [syn: clean-cut, trig]
severely simple in line or design; "a neat tailored suit"; "tailored curtains" [syn: tailored]
v. remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber" [syn: pare]
decorate, as with ornaments; "trim the christmas tree"; "trim a shop window"
cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" [syn: reduce, cut down, cut back, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down]
balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces; "trim an airplane"
be in equilibrium during a flight; "The airplane trimmed"
decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods [syn: garnish, dress]
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, lop, dress, prune, cut back]
cut closely; "trim my beard" [syn: shave]
adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used
n. the act of adding decoration; "the children had to be in bed before it was time for the trimming of the tree"
a decoration or adornment on a garment; "the trimming on a hat"; "the trim on a shirt" [syn: trim, passementerie]
cutting down to the desired size or shape [syn: trim, clipping]
n. a state of arrangement or appearance; "in good trim" [syn: trimness]
a decoration or adornment on a garment; "the trimming on a hat"; "the trim on a shirt" [syn: trimming, passementerie]
attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation
cutting down to the desired size or shape [syn: trimming, clipping]
See trim
Wikipedia
In computer programming, trimming (trim) or stripping (strip) is a string manipulation in which leading and trailing whitespace is removed from a string.
For example, the string (enclosed by apostrophes)
' this is a test 'would be changed, after trimming, to
'this is a test'Usage examples of "trimming".
Then supper was prepared sumptuously, and the new companion said unto the other, You ought to accompt me not onely your Captaine in robbery and fight, but also in pleasures and jolity, whereupon by and by with pleasant cheere he prepared meat, and trimming up the house he set all things in order, and brought the pottage and dainty dishes to the Table: but above all he plyed them wel with great pots and jugs of wine.
Lefevre was a country dame, a widow, one of these half peasants, with ribbons and bonnets with trimming on them, one of those persons who clipped her words and put on great airs in public, concealing the soul of a pretentious animal beneath a comical and bedizened exterior, just as the country-folks hide their coarse red hands in ecru silk gloves.
In her wardrobe there are invariably a lot of sheer muslins, voiles and wash silks in white, mauve, greys, pinks, or delicate stripes, the outline following the fashion, voluminous, straight or clinging, the bodice tight with trimmings inset or full, beruffled, or kerchiefed.
The connection of the laterals with the mains, the laying of the larger sizes of tiles so as to form a close joint, the wedging of these larger tiles firmly into their places, and the trimming which is necessary in going around sharp curves, and in putting in the shorter pieces which are needed to fill out the exact length of the drain, demand more skill and judgment than are often found in the common ditcher.
He talked her through the incision, the insertion of the forceps and removal of the little fragment of meniscus , and the trimming of the tear and removal of the piece she had cut off.
Indiana is a thing complicated and multiform, and, like picking up the rose-leaves and trimming the bushes in Paradise, asking other hands than those of the original mother.
Life, is used to inexplicable underlining that turns out to be dog hairs, and apparent shifts from print to Braille where someone overdue for a forepaw nail trimming has checked my copy, but the printouts of my articles about Bobbie and Margaret, retrieved from the floor after the break-in, looked as if they had been used for paper-training.
Ladies with the airs of queens descended from their carriages at the entrance to the notions shop, unencumbered by nursemaids or servants, and as they pretended to buy Holland laces and passementerie trimmings, they pawned, between sobs, the last glittering ornaments of their lost paradise.
Dutch might at last refuse to assist in trimming this balance, unless Britain should submit to make the grand pensionary of Holland a pensionary of England, and take a number of their forces into English pay.
Down in the control room Quinton had completed his final checks, readjusting the trimming tanks against the findings on his slide-rule.
Indeed, Soli was doing well, trimming out the hut and fitting the key block as expertly as any Alaloi.
Elizabeth had already divested herself of hat, coat, and jacket, and Marina found herself eyeing the fashionable emerald trumpet skirt with its trimming of black soutache braid and the cream silk shirtwaist with its softening fall of Venice lace with a pang of envy.
At the clang of his bayonet against the brass trimmings, Martha Moulton groaned in spirit, for, if there was any one thing that she deemed essential to her comfort in this life, it was to keep spotless, speckless and in every way unharmed, the great knocker on her front door.
He worked belowdecks, trimming out the cabin until the heat sent him topside desperate for fluids and one stingy breeze.
But it is a beautiful fur, and will make a muff for Arabella, besides trimming a pelisse!