different between trim vs trimly

English

Etymology

From Middle English trimen, trymen, trümen, from Old English trymman (“to make firm; strengthen”), from Proto-Germanic *trumjan? (“to make fast; strengthen”), from Proto-Germanic *trumaz (“firm; strong; sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??m/, [t??????m]
• Rhymes: -?m

Verb

trim (third-person singular simple present trims, present participle trimming, simple past and past participle trimmed)

1. (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.

2. (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.

3. (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust the positions of control surfaces, sometimes using trim tabs, so as to modify or eliminate the aircraft's tendency to pitch, roll, or yaw when the cockpit controls are released.
4. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause to assume a certain position, or trim, in the water.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     The captain made us trim the boat, and we got her to lie a little more evenly.

5. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially to set them at the most advantageous angle.
7. (dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
8. (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

   • The hermit trimmed his little fire.

9. (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
10. (transitive, dated) To rebuke; to reprove.
11. (transitive, dated) To beat or thrash.

Derived terms

• betrim

Translations

Noun

trim (countable and uncountable, plural trims)

1. (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.

2. (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.

3. Dress; gear; ornaments.
4. (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
   • 1614, George Chapman, Andromeda Liberata

     The measure and whole trim of comeliness

5. (uncountable, aviation, of an aircraft) The state of adjustment of control surfaces such that the desired attitude can be maintained without requiring the continuous application of force to the cockpit controls.
6. (uncountable, aviation, by extension) The mechanism(s) used to trim an aircraft in roll, pitch, and/or yaw.
7. (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse.
   • 1969, Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, 1971, Chapter 35, pp. 239-240,^[3]

     “Take me somewhere.”

     His response lacked dignity, but in fairness to him I admit that I had left him little chance to be suave.

     He asked, “You mean, you’re going to give me some trim?”

8. (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast; the manner in which a vessel floats on the water, whether on an even keel or down by the head or stern.
9. (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.

Translations

Adjective

trim (comparative trimmer, superlative trimmest)

1. Physically fit.

2. Slender, lean.

3. Neat or smart in appearance.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 1

     […] manhood is melted into curtsies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie and swears it.

   • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, […].

Translations

Adverb

trim (not comparable)

1. (nautical) In good order; properly managed or maintained.
2. (nautical) With sails well trimmed.

Anagrams

• MIRT, RMIT

Albanian

Alternative forms

• (Gheg) trajm [t?ajm]

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *trim-, from Proto-Indo-European *ter- (“soft, weak, young”). Cognate with Sanskrit ???? (táru?a, “young”) and Armenian ???? (t?arm, “young, fresh”). Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *trem(s)- (“to thump; to tremble”). Compare Latin trem? (“tremble”), Lithuanian trìmti (“shake, tremble”), Tocharian A tröm (“in rage, fury”) and Tocharian B tremi (“rage, fury”).

Noun

trim m (indefinite plural trima, definite singular trimi, definite plural trimat)

1. man, manful
2. hero
3. courageous
4. valiant, valorous
5. brave, hardy

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?m

Verb

trim

1. first-person singular present indicative of trimmen
2. imperative of trimmen

Latvian

Numeral

trim

1. dative plural masculine form of tr?s
2. instrumental plural masculine form of tr?s
3. dative plural feminine form of tr?s
4. instrumental plural feminine form of tr?s

English

Etymology

trim +? -ly

Adverb

trimly (comparative more trimly, superlative most trimly)

1. In a trim manner; neatly, smartly.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act I, Scene 3,^[1]

     […] when the fight was done,

     When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,

     Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,

     Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress’d,

     Fresh as a bridegroom […]

   • 1707, Joseph Addison, Rosamond, London: Jacob Tonson, Act II, Scene 2, p. 17,^[2]

     […] tell me why

     With weeping Eyes so oft I spy

     His Whiskers curl’d, and Shoo-strings ty’d,

     A new Toledo by his Side,

     In Shoulder-belt so trimly plac’d,

     With Band so nicely smooth’d and lac’d.

   • 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book Two, Chapter 6,^[3]

     […] in a few score yards I would come upon perfectly undisturbed spaces, houses with their blinds trimly drawn and doors closed, as if they had been left for a day by the owners, or as if their inhabitants slept within.

   • 1914, James Joyce, “After the Race” in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, p. 49,^[4]

     In one of these trimly built cars was a party of four young men whose spirits seemed to be at present well above the level of successful Gallicism […]

2. (obsolete) Effectively, handily, nicely, thoroughly, soundly, well.
   • 1566, Thomas Becon, A New Postil Conteinyng Most Godly and Learned Sermons upon all the Sonday Gospelles, London, “The third Sonday after Easter, The Gospell. Ihon. xvi.,” p. 235,^[5]

     And it is sayde both moste trimly and truly in the Epistle to the Hebreues, as we heard afore: If ye be not vnder correction, (wherof all are partakers) then are ye bastardes and not sonnes.

   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 104-106,^[6]

     […] a merry winters tale would drive away the time trimly, come I am sure you are not without a score.

   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge: John Williams, Book Four, Chapter 16: The Embassadour, p. 319,^[7]

     Lewis the eleventh King of France is sufficiently condemn’d by Posterity for sending Oliver his Barber in an Embassage to a Princesse, who so trimly dispatch’d his businesse, that he left it in the suddes, and had been well wash’d in the river at Gant for his pains, if his feet had not been the more nimble.