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Definition: Trimming |
TrimmingNoun1. The act of adding decoration; "the children had to be in bed before it was time for the trimming of the tree". 2. A decoration or adornment on a garment; "the trimming on a hat"; "the trim on a shirt". 3. Cutting down to the desired size or shape. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trimming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Ornamentation of lace etc. on dress. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Eliminates the flash produced during stamping or cutting out. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemical Industry | The operation of removing the carbonised part of the wick of an oil lamp. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The process of fine adjustment of the capacitance, inductance or resistance. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A method for square-cutting pieces of lumber to standard lengths. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A)the cutting off of one or more branches of a tree, whether standing, felled or fallen; b)the cutting of a felled or fallen, and sometimes standing, stem clear of branches, i. e. more or less flush with its surface, without stubs. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mechanical Engineering | Flight control sub-system through which pilot inputs bias controls about all axes to obtain desired trim. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | To trim: to cut away excess or imperfect material, as uneven edges, sheet not removed in blanking operations, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Removal of unwanted metal from the outside contour of a workpiece. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Slang in 1811 | TRIMMING. Cheating, changing side, or beating. I'll trim his jacket; I'll thresh him. To be trimmed; to be shaved; I'll just step and get trimmed. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Statistics | A procedure for the rejection of observations suggested by Tukey(1962), for removing equal numbers of lowest and highest observations in order to improve estimation of a location parameter from a simple random sample. The motive is to guard against'wild shots'or a long tailed distribution. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | Strip of metal(occasionally length of cord or wire)attached to a structure member to achieve desired trim. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TrimmingSynonyms: clipping (n), passementerie (n), trim (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: equalise (food & agriculture, industry). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disapprobation | Reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach; rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming; correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec, rebuff; slap, slap on the face; home thrust, hit; frown, scowl, black look. |
Edge | Frame, fringe, flounce, frill, list, trimming, edging, skirting, hem, selvedge, welt, furbelow, valance, gimp. |
Improbity | Shabbiness; Adjective: villainy, villany; baseness; Adjective: abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling. |
Ornament | Embroidery; brocade, brocatelle, galloon, lace, fringe, trapping, border, edging, trimming; hanging, tapestry, arras; millinery, ermine; drap d'or. |
Tergiversation | Adjective: changeful; irresolute; ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving; coquetting; Verb: |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Trimming |
| English words defined with "trimming": braid, braiding, butcher knife ♦ cut ♦ garnish, gold braid ♦ Hamburg edging, hedge trimmer ♦ inkle ♦ marabou, miniver ♦ passementerie, Plastron, pruning, Purfile, Purflew ♦ ribbon, rickrack, ricrac, Rimmer, rough, Ruche ♦ sable, sheared, soutache ♦ To trim up, Topiarian, topiary, trim, trimmed, Trimmingly ♦ uncut ♦ Zax. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "trimming": TRIMMING MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR, TRIMMING SEWER, AUTOMATIC. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "trimming": Zax. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A little late for trimming the verge don't you think (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Maude, these new finger razors make hedge trimming as much fun as sitting through church (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Trimming of Paradise Gulch (1910) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Sorting, trimming, and bailing sponges at Key West, Florida. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Trimming hoves. Credit: USDA. |
 | [Army Nurses trimming a Christmas tree]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Washington, D.C. Workmen in front of the Trimming Shop. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Two women trimming a man's hair. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Trimming edge of inner sole. Boot shop, Alpine, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Trimming lower part of boot. Cowboy bootmaking shop, Alpine, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Long Island City, New York. Atlantic Macaroni Company, makers of Caruso brand products. Feeding spaghetti, still moist, into a trimming machine. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | El Paso, Texas. Phelps Dodge refining company. Trimming bars of pure copper. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Eric Weidemeyer, 2080 Jericho Turnpike, New Hyde Park. Trimming. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption |
 | Electric hedge trimmer trimming the hedges. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I have some notion of putting such a trimming as this to my white and silver poplin |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He usually passed an hour or two there, trimming, weeding, and making holes here and there in the ground, and planting seeds |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Children may return to day care after the first treatment dose, after bathing, and after trimming and scrubbing nails. (references) | |
Business | Hospital administrators will not only have to start trimming their budgets but also, at the same time, modernize their facilities. (references) | |
Economic History | Oman | To encourage Omanis to seek private sector employment, the government is trimming the gilt from its heretofore-generous benefits package. (references) |
Oman | Since 1996, the government has encouraged early retirement with pensions for Omanis with 10 years in the civil service as a means of trimming government employment rolls and offering opportunities to recent graduates. (references) | |
Ukraine | Although foreign investors may still encounter resistance in trimming a project's work force to an efficient level, the insistence of local administration and management on keeping a maximum number of people employed within an enterprise is beginning to wane. (references) | |
Trade | India | Exporters coming from abroad are also allowed to import drawings, patterns, labels, price tags, buttons, belts, trimming and embellishments required for export, as part of their passenger baggage, without a license. (references) |
Worker Rights | Philippines | Mindanao plantations growing bananas for export frequently used children as day laborers in trimming and fertilizing plants and in clearing irrigation ditches. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Trimming" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 79.26% of the time. "Trimming" is used about 135 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 79.26% | 107 | 31,463 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.81% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.7% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.22% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 135 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "trimming": braid trimming ♦ fur trimming ♦ lace trimming ♦ line trimming ♦ trimming a candle ♦ trimming adjustment ♦ trimming bunches ♦ trimming capacitor ♦ trimming joist ♦ trimming out ♦ trimming shots ♦ trimming tab ♦ trimming up. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "trimming": cost-trimming, end-trimming, fingernail-trimming, hedge-trimming, re-trimming, rudder-trimming. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "trimming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | هزيمة (beating, debacle, defeat, discomfiture, drubbing, licking, overthrow, repulse, reverse, rout, thrashing, wall), قلامة, قصاصة (chip, clip, clipping, cutting, scrap, slip, snip, snippet), قراضة, زينة (adornment, embellishment, garnish, gaud, ornament, pompon, topping), زركشة, ضغط النفقات, ضربات عنيفة (drubbing, paste), شذابة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | украшение (adornment, bibelot, decoration, fallal, figuration, garnish, garniture, knick knack, ornament, ornamentation, set off), скастряне (letdown, put down, rocket, set down, wigging), гарнитура (dressing, fixings, furniture, garnish, garniture, set, suite), очистване (ablution, ablutions, abstersion, cleaning, cleansing, depuration, purge, purging, purification, removal), окастряне (ax, axe, paring, stripping), затягане (clinch, fastening), бой (action, battle, doing, drubbing, fight, hiding, lashing, leathering, licking, lump, punishment, rough and tumble, rough up, thrashing, towelling, turnup, tussle, walloping, warming, whaling), принадлежности (accessories, adjuncts, appendages, appointments, belongings, clobber, equipage, etceteras, findings, fittings, fixings, habiliment, materials, paraphernalia, requisites, tackle, things), поправяне (mending, recension, reclamation, rectification, redress, reformation, reinstatement, renovation, reparing, retrieval, undoing), подстригване (haircut, profession, shearing). (various references) | |
Chinese | 饰物. (various references) | |
Czech | krajkový lem. (various references) | |
Danish | trimning (clipping), trimming, triming, tilhugning, justering (adjuster, adjustment, adjustment device, end-butting, end-trimming, equalising, equalizing, fit, fitting, justification, meter proving, realignment, rigging, setting, verification), afgrene (branching, debranching, delimbing, disbranching, knotting, lopping, shragging, snedding, trimming out), afkvase (branching, debranching, delimbing, disbranching, knotting, lopping, shragging, snedding, trimming out), afkviste (branching, debranching, delimbing, disbranching, knotting, lopping, shragging, snedding, trimming out), afskæring (cut-off, dressing, edging off, offcut, shearing, truncation), at snyde vægen, besaetning (drove, flock, herd), beskæring (clipping, pruning, tipping, topping), bort (away), grat (burr, flash, overflow, paring, shaving, spew), afgratning (dressing, edging off), heltømmerskæring, udjævning (evening out, facing, smoothing), oprisning (trimming-out), opstamning (trimming-out), paasat pynt, renskaering (dressing, fettling), rensning af væge, rod-og topbeskæring, hakke 2.gang. (various references) | |
Dutch | terugvouwen, trimmen (attitude control, clipping), kantrechten (squaring, to trim), afsnijdsel (burr, meat scraps, meat trimmings, paring, shaving), afvijlsel (burr, paring, shaving), afwerken van kanten (de-flash, dressing, fettling, flash, flash-lathe, to de-burr, to fettle, to take the burr off, to trim, to trim the edges off), belegsel, besnijden (circumcise), disselen af, garneersel, garnituur, gelijkmaken (facing, grading, leveling, levelling, machine grading, regulating), afbramen (de-burr, de-fin, de-flash, dressing, fettle, fettling, flash, flash-lathe, to de-burr, to fettle, to take the burr off, to trim, to trim the edges off), het overtollige (burr, paring, shaving), keepfrezen, nadunnen, op maat brengen (end-butting, end-trimming, equalising, equalizing), passement, passend maken (adjust, put right), raveling (trimmed opening in floor), sierlijst (banding, lipping, moulding, railing), snoeien (clip, cut, prune, shear), herbelading. (various references) | |
Esperanto | pasamento. (various references) | |
Finnish | karsinta (elimination, lopping, pruning). (various references) | |
French | garniture, émondage (trimming-out). (various references) | |
German | Beschneiden (circumcise, clip, curtail, cut, cut back, dress, lop, pare, prune, to clip, trim), pflegend (cherishing, fostering, grooming, nursing, nurturing), Besatz (border, edging, facing, neckband). (various references) | |
Greek | παρυφή (flounce, selvage, thrum, welt), διαμόρφωση δείγματος (facing), διευθέτηση φορτίου, τελική διάτμηση (clipping), τελικό αραίωμα, αποπαρύφωση, αποξάκριδο (burr, paring, shaving), αποκοπή (abruption, abscission, amputation, apocope, recision, severance), αποκοπή πλαγίων βλαστών (trimming-out), αποκλαδώνω (branching, debranching, delimbing, disbranching, knotting, lopping, shragging, snedding, trimming out), απόξεσμα (burr, paring, shaving), λεπτή ρύθμιση συντονισμού, ψαλίδισμα (clip, clipping), χείλος (brim, edge, ledge), κν.γαρνιτούρα, πελέκημα των στρωτήρων, περίκοψη (dressing, fettling), περικοπή (abridgement, citation, curtailment, cutback, excerpt, excision, truncation), ξαναπέρασμα, ξάκρισμα (dressing, edging off), γαρνίρισμα (frill), στολίζων, στολισμόσ (adornment, arrayal, decoration, titivation), συμπλήρωμα (accessory, addendum, adjunct, complement, refill, supplement, top up), έλεγχος στάσης πρόνευσης (attitude control), κλάδεμα προετοιμασίας μεταφύτευσης, άκρο (abutment, border, brim, brow, butt, edge, end, extreme, extremity, foot, ledge, limb, Marge, Neb, peak, rim, tip, verge). (various references) | |
Hebrew | 'זום (clipping, pruning). (various references) | |
Hungarian | trimmelés, utánhangolás, szóvirág (flourish, flowers of speech, frills, garnish), sujtás (frog, lace, soutache, stripe, trim, trimmings), nyesés (chop, cut, paring, shearing), nyírás (clip, clipping, paring, shear, shearing), kiegyenlítés (acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, acquitting, adequation, alignment, clearing, equalization, equation, return, satisfaction, scaling, settlement), körülvágás, dísz (decoration, fallals, gaiety, honor, honorary, ornament, parade, state, trappings), beállítás (adjustment, approach, focusing, focussing, pointing, presentation, regulation, set, setting). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pencukuran (shaving, trimming down). (various references) | |
Italian | guarnizione (decoration, garnish, garnishment, gasket, join, joint, seal, sealing gasket, topping). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | トリパノソーマ症 (sleeping sickness, toluene, torque, torque converter, tribune, trilemma, trill, trim, trimmer, triple, triple crown, triple jump, triple play, trivia, trivialism, trooper, truffle, trypanosoma, trypanosomiasis, Turkey, turquoise), 剪裁 (cutting, pruning, shearing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | トリミング , せ"さい (cutting, delicate, fine, former wife, incompetence, lack of ability, late wife, nice, pruning, shearing, subtle, war damage). (various references) | |
Korean | 트리밍. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | immingtray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | guarnição (binding, border, braid, facing, fittings, fringe, garnish, garniture, garrison, gasket, lining, mounting, post, setting, trim). (various references) | |
Romanian | ornamentaţie (adornment, garniture, ornamentation, work), mustrare (dressing, lash, lecture, pi-jaw, prick, rebuke, remonstrance, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, row, scolding, slur, snub, trim, wigging), garniturã (assortment, complement, decorations, garnish, garniture, gasket, jabot, packing, set, side dish, suite, trimmings), firet (gimp), bordurã (binding, border, curb, curb-stone, edging, flange, frame, fringe, kerb, ledge, list, margin), bãtaie zdravãnã (good thrashing, thrashings), arimare (stowage), aranjare (adjustment, arrangement, arranging, array, collocation, disposition, dressing, setting). (various references) | |
Russian | приспосабливать подгонка (tailoring). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skraćivanje (condensation, contraction, reduction, shortening, syncopation), poraz (debacle, defeat, drubbing, reverse, rout), podrezivanje, dovođenje u red, širit (galloon, gimp, lace, lacing). (various references) | |
Spanish | adorno (adornment, deck, decoration, dedication, fixture, garnish, garnishee, motif, ornament). (various references) | |
Swedish | trimning (trim), garnering (dressing, furbelow, garnish, garniture, topping). (various references) | |
Turkish | yenilgi (bankruptcy, beating, checkmate, defeat, discomfiture, drubbing, licking, reverse, thrashing), uçlarından alma, süsleme (adornment, décor, decoration, embellishment, enrichment, figuration, grace, grace note, ornament, ornamentation, trim), süs (adornment, apparel, attire, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, encrustation, enrichment, facings, falbala, falbelo, fancy, finery, flamboyance, flourish, flower, frill, frippery, garnish, garnishment, garniture, get up, make up, ornament, ornamental, ornamentation, scrimshaw, setoff, setout, trim), garnitür (fixings, garnish, garniture, jardiniere, side dish, side order), dengeleme (equalization, equilibration, stabilization), dayak (bashing, basting, beating, birching, caning, chastisement, corporal punishment, dressing down, drubbing, dusting, flogging, fustigation, hiding, lacing, licking, prop, rod, rubdown, sock, the works, thrashing, wallop, whacking, whaling, whipping), düzenleme (arrangement, collocation, distribution, execution, hatcher, layout, make up, organizing, regulation, reorganization, setting), düzeltme (adjustment, amendment, correcting, correction, emendation, improvement, melioration, proofreading, readjustment, recension, rectification, refinement, reformation, retouch), azar (earful, going-over, jaw, lashing, lecture, objurgation, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, reproval, rocket, scolding, slating, talking to, telling off, tongue-lashing), aksesuar (accessaries, accessary, accessories, accessory, attachment, fixings, ornament). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вражаючий (affecting, impressive, magnific, magnifical, wonderful), оздоблення (decking, decoration, ornamentation), прикрашання (beautification, dressing, embellishment, enrichment, ornament, ornamentation, paint). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính chất đợi thời, sự tỉa, sự sắp xếp gọn g ng trật tự sự cắt, sự rầy la, sự hớt, sự b o. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trimming": trimmings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "trimming": overtrimming, pretrimming, retrimming, untrimming. (additional references) | |
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"Trimming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: taiming, timming, tramming, tremin, trimmning, trining. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "trimming" (pronounced tri"ming) |
| 5 | -r i" m i ng | brimming. |
| 4 | -i" m i ng | dimming, skimming, slimming, swimming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, beaming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, cramming, damming, damning, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, disarming, disclaiming, dooming, dreaming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, informing, jamming, lambing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, ramming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, redeeming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shaming, shortcoming, slamming, squirming, steaming, stemming, storming, streaming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, taming, teaming, teeming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-m-m-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: mitring, rimming. | |
-2 letters: miming, miring, riming, timing, tiring. | |
-3 letters: iring, minim. | |
-4 letters: girn, girt, grim, grin, grit, inti, mini, mint, miri, ring, ting, trig, trim. | |
-5 letters: gin, git, mig, mim, mir, nim, nit, rig, rim, rin, tin. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-m-m-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: immigrant, trimmings. | |
+2 letters: immigrants, misterming, retrimming, untrimming. | |
+3 letters: immigrating, immigration, pretrimming. | |
+4 letters: immigrations, nonimmigrant, overtrimming, recommitting, symmetrizing. | |
+5 letters: commiserating, immigrational, immortalising, immortalizing, mainstreaming, masterminding, nonimmigrants. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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