Synonyms of the word trim


TRIMADJUST - ADORN - ADORNMENT - ATTITUDE - BALANCE - BE - BEAUTIFY - CLEAN-CUT - CLIP - CLIPPING - CORRECT - CROP - CUT - CUTTING - DECORATE - DECREASE - DRESS - EMBELLISH - EQUILIBRATE - EQUILIBRIZE - GARNISH - GRACE - LEAN - LESSEN - LOP - MINIFY - NEATNESS - ORNAMENT - PARE - PASSEMENTERIE - PLAIN - PRUNE - REDUCE - SET - SHAVE - SHIPSHAPE - SNIP - SPARE - SPRUCENESS - TAILORED - THIN - TIDY - TRIG - TRIMMING - TRIMNESS - WELL-KEPT

trim

  • v. (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'…
  • v. (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
  • v. (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs.
  • v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast;…
  • v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially…
  • v. (dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
  • v. (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
  • v. (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
  • n. (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
  • n. (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
  • n. Dress; gear; ornaments.
  • n. (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse.
  • n. (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast;…
  • n. (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
  • adj. Physically fit.
  • adj. Slender, lean.
  • adj. Neat or smart in appearance.
  • adv. (nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
  • adv. (nautical) With sails well trimmed.

adjust

  • v. (transitive) To modify.
  • v. (transitive) To improve or rectify.
  • v. (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
  • v. (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.

adorn

  • v. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
  • n. (obsolete) adornment.

adornment

  • n. A decoration; that which adorns.
  • n. The act of decorating.

attitude

  • n. The position of the body or way of carrying oneself; posture.
  • n. Disposition or state of mind.
  • n. (uncountable, countable) A negative, irritating, or irritated attitude; posturing.
  • n. (aeronautics, nautical, engineering) The orientation of a vehicle or other object relative to the horizon,…
  • n. (ballet) A position similar to arabesque, but with the raised leg bent at the knee.
  • v. To assume or to place in a particular position or orientation; to pose.
  • v. To express an attitude through one's posture, bearing, tone of voice, etc.

balance

  • n. (uncountable) a state in which opposing forces harmonise; equilibrium.
  • n. (uncountable) mental equilibrium; mental health; calmness, a state of remaining clear-headed and unperturbed.
  • n. something of equal weight used to provide equilibrium (literally or figuratively); counterweight.
  • n. a pair of scales.
  • n. (uncountable) awareness of both viewpoints or matters; neutrality; rationality; objectivity.
  • n. (uncountable) the overall result of conflicting forces, opinions etc.; the influence which ultimately…
  • n. (uncountable) apparent harmony in art (between differing colours, sounds, etc.).
  • n. (accounting) a list accounting for the debits on one side, and for the credits on the other.
  • n. (accounting) the result of such a procedure; the difference between credit and debit of an account.
  • n. (watchmaking) a device used to regulate the speed of a watch, clock etc.
  • n. (law) the remainder.
  • n. (obsolete, astrology) Libra.
  • v. (transitive) To bring (items) to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To make (concepts) agree.
  • v. (transitive) To hold (an object or objects) precariously; to support on a narrow base, so as to keep from…
  • v. (transitive) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
  • v. (transitive, dancing) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally.
  • v. (nautical) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass.
  • v. (transitive) To make the credits and debits of (an account) correspond.
  • v. (intransitive) To be in equilibrium.
  • v. (intransitive) To have matching credits and debits.

be

  • v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
  • v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
  • v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
  • v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
  • v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
  • v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
  • v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
  • v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
  • v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
  • v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
  • v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
  • v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
  • v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
  • v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

beautify

  • v. (transitive) To make beautiful, or to increase the beauty of.

clean-cut

  • adj. Having a neat, smart appearance.

clip

  • v. To grip tightly.
  • v. To fasten with a clip.
  • v. (archaic) To hug, embrace.
  • v. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
  • n. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
  • n. An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.
  • n. (obsolete) An embrace.
  • n. A frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into the magazine of a firearm…
  • n. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the…
  • n. (fishing, Britain, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
  • v. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
  • v. To curtail; to cut short.
  • v. (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
  • v. (American football) An illegal tackle: Throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting…
  • v. (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
  • v. (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering…
  • v. To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
  • n. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole.
  • n. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
  • n. (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
  • n. (informal) A blow with the hand.

clipping

  • v. present participle of clip.
  • n. (countable) A piece of something removed by clipping.
  • n. (countable) An article clipped from a newspaper.
  • n. (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a word).
  • n. (uncountable, signal processing) The process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain…
  • n. (uncountable, computer graphics) The use of a mask to hide part of an object or image.
  • n. (uncountable, American football) Falling, rolling, or throwing one's body on the back of an opponent's…

correct

  • adj. Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
  • adj. With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
  • v. (transitive) To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
  • v. (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
  • v. (transitive) To inform (someone) of the latter's error.

crop

  • n. (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or…
  • n. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
  • n. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
  • n. The lashing end of a whip.
  • n. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
  • n. A rocky outcrop.
  • n. The act of cropping.
  • n. A short haircut.
  • n. (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store…
  • n. (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
  • n. (archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of…
  • n. (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
  • n. (mining) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
  • v. (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
  • v. (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
  • v. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.
  • v. (intransitive) To yield harvest.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.

cut

  • adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
  • adj. Reduced.
  • adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
  • adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
  • adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
  • adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
  • adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
  • adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
  • adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
  • adj. Removed from a team roster.
  • adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
  • n. An opening resulting from cutting.
  • n. The act of cutting.
  • n. The result of cutting.
  • n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
  • n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
  • n. A share or portion.
  • n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
  • n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
  • n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
  • n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
  • n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
  • n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
  • n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
  • n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
  • n. A slab, especially of meat.
  • n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
  • n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
  • n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
  • n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
  • n. A haircut.
  • n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
  • n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
  • n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
  • n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
  • n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
  • n. A skein of yarn.
  • v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
  • v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
  • v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
  • v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
  • v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
  • v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
  • v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
  • v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To write.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
  • v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
  • v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
  • v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

cutting

  • v. present participle of cut.
  • n. (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut.
  • n. (countable) A section removed from the larger whole.
  • n. (countable) A newspaper clipping.
  • n. (countable) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
  • n. (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
  • n. (uncountable) The editing of film or other recordings.
  • n. (uncountable) Self-harm; the act of cutting one's own skin.
  • n. (machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
  • n. (countable) A narrow passage, dug for a road, railway or canal to go through.
  • adj. (not comparable) That is used for cutting.
  • adj. Of remarks, criticism, etc., potentially hurtful.

decorate

  • v. (transitive) To furnish with decorations.
  • v. (transitive) To improve the appearance of an interior of a house, room, office and so forth.
  • v. (computing, transitive) (In some programming languages) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further…

decrease

  • v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
  • n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
  • n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

dress

  • n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
  • n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
  • n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
  • n. A dress rehearsal.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
  • v. To adorn, ornament.
  • v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
  • v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
  • v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
  • v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
  • v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
  • v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
  • v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
  • v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
  • v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

embellish

  • v. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
  • v. To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.

equilibrate

  • v. (transitive) To balance, or bring into equilibrium.
  • v. (intransitive) To balance, to be in a state of equilibrium.

equilibrize

  • v. (transitive) To balance, or bring into equilibrium.
  • v. (intransitive) To balance, to be in a state of equilibrium.

garnish

  • v. To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
  • v. (cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.
  • v. To furnish; to supply.
  • v. (slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter.
  • v. (law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.
  • n. A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
  • n. Pewter vessels in general.
  • n. Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially when showy…
  • n. (cooking) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
  • n. (slang, obsolete) Fetters.
  • n. (slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from…

grace

  • n. (not countable) Elegant movement; poise or balance.
  • n. (not countable) Charming, pleasing qualities.
  • n. (not countable, theology) Free and undeserved favour, especially of God. Unmerited divine assistance given…
  • n. (not countable, theology) Divine assistance in resisting sin.
  • n. (countable) Short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
  • n. (finance) An allowance of time granted for a debtor during which he is free of at least part of his normal…
  • n. (card games) A special move in a solitaire or patience game that is normally against the rules.
  • v. (transitive) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
  • v. (transitive) To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
  • v. (transitive) To supply with heavenly grace.
  • v. (transitive, music) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.

lean

  • v. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
  • v. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc.
  • v. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.
  • v. To hang outwards.
  • v. To press against.
  • n. (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
  • adj. (of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
  • adj. (of meat) having little fat.
  • adj. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
  • adj. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
  • adj. (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed…
  • adj. efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean…
  • v. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or…
  • v. To conceal.
  • n. (slang) A recreational drug based on codeine laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community…

lessen

  • v. (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
  • v. (intransitive) To become less.

lop

  • n. (Geordie) A flea.
  • v. (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune…
  • v. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
  • v. To allow to hang down.
  • n. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
  • n. (US, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
  • n. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

minify

  • v. To make smaller.
  • v. To reduce in apparent size, as for example objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase…
  • v. (computing) To remove white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to…

neatness

  • n. The state of being neat.

ornament

  • n. An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
  • n. A Christmas tree decoration.
  • n. (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to…
  • v. To decorate.
  • v. To add to.

pare

  • v. (transitive) to remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
  • v. (transitive, often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting…
  • v. to trim the hoof of a horse.

passementerie

  • n. A decorative piece of lace or other cloth on clothes.
  • n. Trimmings consisting of braids, cords, beads, tinsel, etc.

plain

  • adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
  • adj. Simple.
  • adj. Obvious.
  • adj. Open.
  • adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
  • adv. (colloquial) Simply.
  • n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
  • v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
  • n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
  • n. A battlefield.
  • n. (obsolete) A plane.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

prune

  • n. (obsolete) A plum.
  • n. The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
  • n. (slang) An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.
  • v. (transitive, horticulture) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make…
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
  • v. (transitive, computer science) To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
  • v. (obsolete) To preen; to prepare; to dress.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged…

reduce

  • v. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish,…
  • v. (intransitive) To lose weight.
  • v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
  • v. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
  • v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
  • v. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
  • v. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
  • v. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
  • v. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
  • v. (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to…
  • v. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
  • v. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).

set

  • v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
  • v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
  • v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
  • v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
  • v. (transitive) To adjust.
  • v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
  • v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
  • v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
  • v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
  • v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
  • v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
  • v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
  • v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
  • v. (intransitive) To solidify.
  • v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
  • v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
  • v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
  • v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
  • v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
  • v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
  • v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
  • v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
  • v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
  • v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
  • v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
  • v. To place or fix in a setting.
  • v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
  • v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
  • v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
  • v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
  • v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
  • v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
  • v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
  • v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
  • v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
  • v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
  • n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
  • n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
  • n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
  • n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
  • n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
  • n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
  • n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
  • n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
  • n. A young oyster when first attached.
  • n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
  • n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
  • n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
  • n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
  • adj. Fixed in position.
  • adj. Rigid, solidified.
  • adj. Ready, prepared.
  • adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
  • adj. Prearranged.
  • adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
  • adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
  • n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
  • n. A rudimentary fruit.
  • n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
  • n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
  • n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
  • n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
  • n. An object made up of several parts.
  • n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
  • n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
  • n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
  • n. The scenery for a film or play.
  • n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
  • n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
  • n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
  • n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
  • n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
  • n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
  • n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
  • n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
  • n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
  • v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

shave

  • v. (transitive) To make bald by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair…
  • v. (transitive) To cut anything in this fashion.
  • v. (intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.
  • v. (transitive) To cut finely, as with slices of meat.
  • v. To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
  • v. (archaic, transitive) To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat.
  • v. (US, slang, dated, transitive) To buy (a note) at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest,…
  • n. An instance of shaving.
  • n. A thin slice; a shaving.
  • n. (US, slang, dated) An exorbitant discount on a note.
  • n. (US, slang, dated) A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right…
  • n. A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a spokeshave.

shipshape

  • adj. Meticulously neat and tidy.
  • adj. Organized, serviceable, trained and ready for action.

snip

  • v. To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
  • v. To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
  • v. To break off; to snatch away.
  • v. (informal) To circumcise.
  • v. (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
  • n. The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
  • n. A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
  • n. Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
  • n. A small amount of something; a pinch.
  • n. (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
  • n. A small or weak person, especially a young one.
  • n. (dated) An impertinent or mischievous person.
  • n. (obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.
  • n. (obsolete, slang) A tailor.

spare

  • adj. Scanty; not abundant or plentiful.
  • adj. Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.
  • adj. Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
  • adj. Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
  • adj. Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
  • adj. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Slow.
  • n. The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
  • n. Parsimony; frugal use.
  • n. An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
  • n. That which has not been used or expended.
  • n. A spare part, especially a spare tire.
  • n. (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in…
  • n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins…
  • n. (Canada) A block of school during which one does not have a class.
  • v. To show mercy.
  • v. To keep.
  • v. (transitive) To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to…

spruceness

  • n. the property of being spruce, of being neat and elegant.

tailored

  • adj. Adjusted by a tailor, fitted.
  • adj. Made by a tailor.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of tailor.

thin

  • adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
  • adj. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
  • adj. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
  • adj. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
  • adj. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
  • adj. (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head…
  • adj. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
  • adj. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
  • n. (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete…
  • n. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
  • v. (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
  • v. (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
  • v. To dilute.
  • v. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
  • adv. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

tidy

  • adj. (obsolete) In good time; at the right time; timely; seasonable; opportune; favourable; fit; suitable.
  • adj. (obsolete) Brave; smart; skillful; fine; good.
  • adj. Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order.
  • adj. Arranged neatly and in order.
  • adj. Not messy; neat and controlled.
  • adj. Satisfactory; comfortable.
  • adj. (informal) Generous, considerable.
  • v. To make tidy; to neaten.
  • n. A tabletop container for pens and stationery.
  • n. A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of…
  • n. (dated) A child's pinafore.
  • n. The wren.
  • interj. (Wales) Expression of positive agreement, usually in reply to a question.

trig

  • adj. (now chiefly dialectal) True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.
  • adj. (now chiefly dialectal) Safe; secure.
  • adj. (now chiefly dialectal) Tight; firm; steady; sound; in good condition or health.
  • adj. Neat; tidy; trim; spruce; smart.
  • adj. (now chiefly dialectal) Active; clever.
  • n. (now chiefly dialectal) A dandy; coxcomb.
  • n. (uncountable) Trigonometry.
  • n. (surveying, countable, informal) A trigonometric point, trig point.
  • n. (Britain) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion;…
  • v. (transitive) To stop (a wheel, barrel, etc.) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.
  • v. To fill; to stuff; to cram.

trimming

  • n. The act of someone who trims.
  • n. Material that is removed by someone trimming something, as a piece of steak.
  • n. An accompaniment to a meal.
  • n. (colloquial, dated) A reprimand or chastisting.
  • v. present participle of trim.

trimness

  • n. The property of being trim.

well-kept

  • adj. neat, tidy, kept in good condition.
  • adj. (of a secret) not told to anyone.

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