TRIM
Drive cleanup instruction
Trim means to cut away small amounts to neaten or reduce: trim a hedge, trim your beard, trim the fat from meat.
Extended uses keep this sense of removal for improvement: trim the budget, trim unnecessary words.
Trim also means to decorate or furnish: trim a Christmas tree, the trim on a house.
As an adjective, trim describes something neat and compact: a trim figure, a trim little boat.
As a noun, trim can mean a haircut that shapes without major change, decorative molding, or the adjustment of a boat's balance in the water.
Severance or reduction
- reduceMake smaller in degree
- slashAngled line or swipe
- pareRemove outer layer
- streamlineRemove unnecessary elements
economize · downsize · curtail · shrink · tighten · prune · scale · eliminate
Ship's wind-catching fabric
snip
Small quick cut
cut · lop · shorten · neaten · tidy · crop · pare · scissor · edge · shape
cut
Severance or reduction
streamline · economize · downsize · curtail · shrink · tighten · prune · scale · eliminate · shave
sail
Ship's wind-catching fabric
ballast · keel · tack · heel · list · mast · jib · mainsail · boom · windward
embellishment
Decorative addition or exaggeration
border · ribbon · braid · lace · molding · garnish · accent · ornament · finishing · detail
lean
Lacking fat; incline
slender · svelte · athletic · lithe · sleek · shapely · muscular · tight · firm · healthy
- hedge trimmerDevice for shaping shrubbery
- wood trimOrnamental lumber edging
- trimming nailsCutting fingertip keratin
- trim downDecrease in size
- beard trimmerTool for shortening whiskers
- trim the sails
trims, trimmed, trimming, trimmings, trimmer, trimmers, trimly, trimness, untrimmed