Trimmed

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
     1. To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make
        right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.


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              The hermit trimmed his little fire.   --Goldsmith.
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     2. To dress; to decorate; to adorn; to invest; to embellish;
        as, to trim a hat.
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              A rotten building newly trimmed over. --Milton.
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              I was trimmed in Julia's gown.        --Shak.
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     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." --Byron.
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     4. (Carp.) To dress, as timber; to make smooth.
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     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.
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     6. To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat. [Colloq.]
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     {To trim in} (Carp.), to fit, as a piece of timber, into
        other work.
  
     {To trim up}, to dress; to put in order.
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              I found her trimming up the diadem
              On her dead mistress.                 --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  trim
       adj 1: thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a
              body kept trim by exercise" [syn: {spare}]
       2: (used of hair) neat and tidy; "a nicely kempt beard" [syn: {kempt},
           {tidy}]
       3: of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from
          disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little
          sailboat" [syn: {shipshape}, {well-kept}]
       4: (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}]
       5: severely simple in line or design; "a neat tailored suit";
          "tailored curtains" [syn: {tailored}]
       n 1: a state of arrangement or appearance; "in good trim" [syn: {trimness}]
       2: a decoration or adornment on a garment; "the trimming on a
          hat"; "the trim on a shirt" [syn: {trimming}, {passementerie}]
       3: attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its
          own orientation
       4: cutting down to the desired size or shape [syn: {trimming},
          {clipping}]
       v 1: remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size;
            "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim
            lumber" [syn: {pare}]
       2: decorate, as with ornaments; "trim the christmas tree";
          "trim a shop window"
       3: 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}]
       4: balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces; "trim
          an airplane"
       5: be in equilibrium during a flight; "The airplane trimmed"
       6: decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
          [syn: {garnish}, {dress}]
       7: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the
          plants in the garden" [syn: {snip}, {clip}, {crop}, {lop},
           {dress}, {prune}, {cut back}]
       8: cut closely; "trim my beard" [syn: {shave}]
       9: adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used
       [also: {trimming}, {trimmed}, {trimmest}, {trimmer}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  trimmed
       adj : made neat and tidy by trimming; "his neatly trimmed hair"
             [syn: {cut}] [ant: {untrimmed}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  trimmed
       See {trim}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  112 Moby Thesaurus words for "trimmed":
     abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, adorned, all up with, beaded,
     beat, beaten, bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled,
     beribboned, bespangled, bested, bobbed, bordered, capsule,
     capsulized, clipped, compressed, condensed, confounded, cropped,
     curtailed, cut short, decked, decked out, decorated, defeated,
     digested, discomfited, docked, done for, done in, down, edged,
     elided, elliptic, embellished, fallen, feathered, festooned,
     figured, fimbriated, fixed, floored, flowered, fringed,
     gaff-rigged, garnished, hors de combat, jeweled, laciniate,
     laciniated, lambasted, lateen-rigged, lathered, licked, marged,
     marginate, marginated, margined, mowed, mown, nipped, on the skids,
     ornamented, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered,
     overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned,
     overwhelmed, panicked, plumed, pollard, polled, pruned,
     put to rout, reaped, rigged, routed, ruined, scattered, settled,
     shaved, sheared, short-cut, shortened, silenced, skinned,
     skinned alive, skirted, snub, snubbed, spangled, spangly,
     stampeded, studded, tricked out, trounced, undone, upset, whelmed,
     whipped, worsted, wreathed