trim

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Editorial note

The core team recognizes that the API needs a trim.

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of trim gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

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

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for trim.

noun

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

noun

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

noun

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

noun

cutting down to the desired size or shape

verb

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

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"

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

verb

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

See also: snip, clip, crop, lop, dress, prune

verb

cut closely; "trim my beard"

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"

adjective

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

adjective

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

adjective

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

Example sentences

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?

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.

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.