Trim

Definition

trim /trÇm/ v ( -mm- ) ၁။ (က) တိသည္၊ ညိႇသည္၊ ရိတ္သည္။ trim the top of a hedge ❍ trim one's beard (back). (ခ) ~ sth (off sth/ off) ခ်ံဳ႕သည္။ The article's too long. Can you trim it (by a quarter)? ❍ Trim the excess fat off (the meat). ❍ I trimmed an inch off the hem of this skirt. ❍ Tax increases will undoubtedly trim public spending. ❍ CLIP 2 ၂။ ~ sth (with sth) အၿမိတ္တပ္သည္။ အနား ကြပ္သည္။ trim a dress with lace ❍ a hat trimmed with flowers. ၃။ (ေလွသေဘၤာ) ရြက္မ်ားကိုေလေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ အလိုက္တသင့္ျပဳျပင္သည္။ n ၁။ [U] အေနအထား၊ အေျခအေန ေကာင္းမြန္ျခင္း။ be/ keep in good/ proper/ excellent trim ❍ She's got a month to get into trim for the race. ၂။ [C usu sing ] ဆံပင္တိေပးျခင္း။ How much is it just for a trim? ၃။ [U, sing] အၿမိတ္၊ အကြပ္၊ ေဖာင္းစသည္ မြမ္းမံဆင္ယင္မႈ။ a yard of gold trim ❍ The car is available with (a) black or red trim (ie seat covers). adj ( approv ) ၁။ (အလံုးအထည္) သြယ္လ်ေသာ၊ ေၾကာ့ရွင္းေသာ၊ က်စ္လ်စ္ေသာ။ a trim waistline/ figure ❍ She keeps herself trim. ၂။ သပ္ရပ္ေသာ။ ေသသပ္ေသာ။ ေနသားတက် ျဖစ္ေသာ။ a trim garden/ moustache. ❏ trimmer n တိ၊ ျဖတ္၊ ညႇပ္ကိရိယာ။ an electric hedge trimmer. ❏ trimming n ၁။ trimmings [pl] (က) (ထံုးစံအတိုင္း) အဆာပလာ၊ အဆင္အယင္။ roast turkey and all the trimmings (ie vegetables, stuffing, etc) ❍ a church wedding with all the trimmings. (ခ) (အနားသတ္ရာမွ ဖယ္ရွားပစ္ေသာ) အစြန္းအနား အစအန။ pastry trimmings. ၂။ [U, C esp pl ] ဇာနားအစြန္းအၿမိတ္စသည္ အဆင္တန္ဆာ။

Examples

1. Someone is trimming the grass outside with shears.
2. A well-trimmed beard
3. I had an inch trimmed off at the hairdresser’s.
4. [trim something to something] : The workforce has been trimmed to 230.
5. [trim something from something] : The company had also trimmed £46
6. 000 from its advertising budget.
7. A fur-trimmed coat
8. The kids always enjoy trimming the Christmas tree.