Trim in a sentence as a noun

The core team recognizes that the API needs a trim.

See, their number one problem was getting more bushes to trim.

Maybe PG prefers the community to be small, so he's trying to trim it down?

Trim in a sentence as a verb

This goes counter to the point of the shoes: to look trim and to make the woman's foot look small and pretty.

Their business model since the dawn of time has been "You call us up, we send a van of guys to your house, they uses scissors to trim your bushes.

> Using stats trim-outliers, which throws away best and worsepeople make this mistake over and over again.

Trim in a sentence as an adjective

It is one thing to clarify or to trim fluff from a title but it is another to guess at what a better title might be for a technical area that is beyond the expertise of a moderator.

The ridiculously precise progress bar may actually be a case of "reality is unrealistic": if you produced a quick-and-dirty progress bar by just printing a float, without bothering to trim the precision, you'd get something like that.

Trim definitions

noun

a state of arrangement or appearance; "in good trim"

See also: trimness

noun

a decoration or adornment on a garment; "the trimming on a hat"; "the trim on a shirt"

See also: trimming passementerie

noun

attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation

noun

cutting down to the desired size or shape

See also: trimming clipping

verb

remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber"

See also: pare

verb

decorate, as with ornaments; "trim the christmas tree"; "trim a shop window"

verb

cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"

See also: reduce

verb

balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces; "trim an airplane"

verb

be in equilibrium during a flight; "The airplane trimmed"

verb

decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods

See also: garnish dress

verb

cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"

See also: snip clip crop dress prune

verb

cut closely; "trim my beard"

See also: shave

verb

adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used

adjective

thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"

See also: spare

adjective

of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat"

See also: shipshape well-kept

adjective

neat and smart in appearance; "a clean-cut and well-bred young man"; "the trig corporal in his jaunty cap"; "a trim beard"

See also: clean-cut trig

adjective

severely simple in line or design; "a neat tailored suit"; "tailored curtains"

See also: tailored