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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


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"Trim" Quotes from Famous Books



... he could see that Dick Sand, aided by Tom and his companions, commenced to brace the yards in such a manner as to trim them close to ...
— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne
... shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures: Russet lawns, and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim, with daisies pied; Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes. Hard by a cottage chimney ...
— L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas • John Milton
... George Square. It was better at Hermiston, where Kirstie Elliott, the sister of a neighbouring bonnet-laird, and an eighteenth cousin of the lady's, bore the charge of all, and kept a trim house and a good country table. Kirstie was a woman in a thousand, clean, capable, notable; once a moorland Helen, and still comely as a blood horse and healthy as the hill wind. High in flesh and voice and colour, she ran the house ...
— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson
... his own hair in the new way he had decided on. He had had it cut in the old fashion a few days before going into retirement, but toward the end of that retirement it had grown beyond its usual length. All he could do about it was to place himself between two mirrors, and trim the longest locks. Fortunately, he had plenty of time for this operation. After the first two or three weeks, his wounds required very little attention each day. His vocal and handwriting exercises weren't to be carried to excess, and so he had a good deal of time on his ...
— The Mystery of Murray Davenport - A Story of New York at the Present Day • Robert Neilson Stephens
... her. He intimated in his dumb language that he wanted to take the helm, and gently took the tiller from her. He was soon proficient in steering, for there was now nothing to do but keep the boat in the middle of the river, and occasionally to trim the sail. ...
— Hope and Have - or, Fanny Grant Among the Indians, A Story for Young People • Oliver Optic


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