trim
US: /ˈtɹɪm/
UK: /tɹˈɪm/
UK: /tɹˈɪm/
English Vietnamese dictionary
trim /trim/
- danh từ
- sự ngăn nắp, sự gọn gàng
- everything is in perfect trim: mọi thứ đều đâu vào đấy, mọi thứ đều ngắn nắp gọn gàng
- trạng thái sẵn sàng
- to be in fighting trim: sẵn sàng chiến đấu
- y phục, cách ăn mặc
- in travelling trim: ăn mặc theo lối đi du lịch
- (hàng hải) sự xoay (buồm) theo đúng hướng gió
- to be in [good] trim
- (thể dục,thể thao) sung sức
- (hàng hải) sắp xếp đâu vào đấy (tàu)
- to be out of trim
- (thể dục,thể thao) không sung sức, không sẵn sàng
- (hàng hải) chưa sắp xếp đâu vào đấy (tàu)
- sự ngăn nắp, sự gọn gàng
- tính từ
- ngăn nắp, gọn gàng, chỉnh tề
- a trim room: căn phòng ngăn nắp
- a trim girl: cô gái ăn mặc gọn gàng
- ngăn nắp, gọn gàng, chỉnh tề
- ngoại động từ
- sắp xếp, thu dọn, sắp đặt cho ngăn nắp thứ tự
- sửa, gạt (bấc đèn); cời (tro để khêu ngọn lửa); cắt, hớt, tỉa (tóc, râu); xén, tỉa (cành lá...); bào, đẽo (gỗ)...
- tô điểm, trang sức, trang điểm
- to trim a dress with lace: điểm thêm dải đăng ten vào cái áo
- (hàng hải) cân bằng trọng tải (của tàu); xoay (buồm) theo hướng gió
- (thông tục) mắng mỏ, sửa cho một trận
- nội động từ
- lựa chiều, nước đôi không đứng hẳn về phía bên nào; tìm cách chiếu lòng cả đôi bên
- to trim away (off)
- cắt, xén, tỉa, gọt bớt (những phần thừa...)
- to trim up
- sửa sang quần áo cho gọn gàng; ăn mặc gọn gàng diêm dúa
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun, adjective
+ verb (-mm-) [VN]
1 to make sth neater, smaller, better, etc., by cutting parts from it: to trim your hair + to trim a hedge (back) + (figurative) The training budget had been trimmed by £10 000. + a neatly-trimmed beard
2 ~ sth (off sth)
~ sth (off / away) to cut away unnecessary parts from sth: Trim any excess fat off the meat. + I trimmed two centimetres off the hem of the skirt.
3 [usually passive] ~ sth (with sth) to decorate sth, especially around its edges: gloves trimmed with fur
Idioms: trim your sails
1 to arrange the sails of a boat to suit the wind so that the boat moves faster
2 to reduce your costs
Phrasal Verbs: trim down
trim sth<->down to become smaller in size; to make sth smaller: By a combination of diet and exercise he's trimmed down from 90 kilos to 70.
+ noun
1 [C, usually sing.] an act of cutting a small amount off sth, especially hair: How much is it for a wash and trim? + The hedge needs a trim.
2 [U, sing.] material that is used to decorate clothes, furniture, cars, etc., especially along the edges, by being a different colour, etc: The car is available with black or red trim (= the colour of the seats). + a blue jacket with a white trim + The kitchen units come in white with a grey trim.
Idioms: in (good, etc.) trim (BrE, informal) in good condition or order: He keeps in trim by running every day. + The team need to get in trim for the coming season.
+ adjective
1 (of a person) looking thin, healthy and attractive: She has kept very trim. + a trim figure
2 neat and well cared for: a trim garden
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 neat, tidy, orderly, well-ordered, well-groomed, well turned out, well-kempt, smart, crisp, dapper, spick and span, spruce, shipshape (and Bristol fashion), Archaic or Dialectal trig, Colloq natty, US spiffy:
Nancy arrived wearing her trim new flight-attendant's uniform.
2 in good or fine fettle, fit (as a fiddle), athletic, slim, slender, clean-cut, shapely, streamlined, compact:
Larry looks so trim that I asked him if he had lost weight. The new convertible model is a very trim little motor-car.
v.
3 curtail, shorten, prune, pare, lop (off), crop, bob, clip, cut, shave, shear, snip, dock; barber:
They trimmed the article by cutting two paragraphs from the end. He had shaved off his beard and trimmed his moustache.
4 decorate, embellish, dress up, embroider, adorn, ornament, deck out, caparison, beautify:
When should we trim the Christmas tree?
n.
5 trimming, edging, piping, purfling, ricrac or rickrack, embroidery, border, hem, frill, fringe, ornament, ornamentation, decoration, embellishment, adornment:
The skirt was spoilt by a rather cheap trim round the hem.
6 condition, state, fettle, health, form, order, fitness, repair, Colloq shape:
Sid's car seemed to be in good trim when I saw it yesterday.
Collocation dictionary
ADV.
carefully, neatly
his neatly trimmed moustache
| away, off
Trim away the lower leaves.
| into
trimming the bush into a heart shape
PHRASES
get/have your hair trimmed
Concise English dictionary
trimmed|trimming|trimmer|trimmest|trimstrɪm
noun
+a state of arrangement or appearance
+a decoration or adornment on a garment
+attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation
+cutting down to the desired size or shape
verb
+remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
+decorate, as with ornaments
+cut down on; make a reduction in
+balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces
+be in equilibrium during a flight
+decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
+cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
+cut closely
+adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used
adj.
+thin and fit
+of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder
+neat and smart in appearance
+severely simple in line or design
