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Trimming   /trˈɪmɪŋ/   Listen
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.


noun
Trimming  n.  
1.
The act of one who trims.
2.
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.
3.
The act of reprimanding or chastisting; as, to give a boy a trimming. (Colloq.)


adjective
Trimming  adj.  A. from Trim, v. "The Whigs are, essentially, an inefficient, trimming, halfway sort of a party."
Trimming joist (Arch.), a joist into which timber trimmers are framed; a header. See Header.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Trimming" Quotes from Famous Books



... woman, who knew herself to be a woman, most of all, was tired of things new and longed, deep in her heart, for the old, old, things that were built into the very foundation of the race and that no amount of gilding and trimming and ornamenting can ever cover up or hide; and no amount of disregarding or ignoring can do away with; lest indeed the race perish ...
— Their Yesterdays • Harold Bell Wright
... scarcely seen her, much less spoken with her, since his arrival from Londinium, he followed the man to the door of her apartments. Here he passed a second slave, a tall fellow with a shock of black, unkempt hair, who was trimming a lamp near by. This one turned his head to watch him as he entered, with fierce wolf eyes into which leaped sudden jealous distrust. But a slave was a slave to Marius; and so heedless was he of the man's ...
— Nicanor - Teller of Tales - A Story of Roman Britain • C. Bryson Taylor
... banks of Korus, the crimson sward, the gorgeous forest. Beneath the trees we saw feeding many herds of plant men. The adults stood aloft upon their toes and their mighty tails, their talons pruning every available leaf and twig. It was then that I understood the careful trimming of the trees which had led me to form the mistaken idea when first I opened my eyes upon the grove that it was the playground of ...
— The Gods of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... uttered a low cry. Coming over the field beyond were Adam and Athalia. By the trimming on the blue dress she wore, he could see that she was still in the Fourth Dimension, for he did not see ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various
... buried the live charcoal deep with ashes, and taking two bits of incense of Cambodia fragrant wood, she threw them over them. She then re-covered the brasier, and repairing to the back of the screen, she gave the lamp a thorough trimming to make it throw out more light; after which, she ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin


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