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trim

n. attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation

trim, trimness

n. a state of arrangement or appearance; "in good trim"

trimming, trim, passementerie

n. a decoration or adornment on a garment; "the trimming on a hat"; "the trim on a shirt"

trim, trimming, clipping

n. cutting down to the desired size or shape

trim

v. adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used

pare, trim

v. remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber"

shave, trim

v. cut closely; "trim my beard"

trim, garnish, dress

v. decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods

shave, trim, cut closely

v. cut closely

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spare, trim

adj. thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"

tailored, trim

adj. severely simple in line or design; "a neat tailored suit"; "tailored curtains"

shipshape, trim, well-kept

adj. of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat"

trim, snug, fit, taut

adj. (seaworthy)

decoration, ornament, ornamentation

n. something used to beautify

garnish

n. any decoration added as a trimming or adornment

embellishment

n. a superfluous ornament

piping

n. playing a pipe or the bagpipes

molding, moulding, border

n. a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge

border

n. a strip forming the outer edge of something; "the rug had a wide blue border"

thin

v. make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution"

rationalize, rationalise

v. remove irrational quantities from; "This function can be rationalized"

shave, knock off

v. cut the price of

truncate, cut short

v. make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"

pare, pare down

v. decrease gradually or bit by bit

fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify

v. make more beautiful

range, array, lay out, set out

v. lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line; "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"

order

v. bring order to or into; "Order these files"

dress

v. cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width

dress, dress up

v. dress in a certain manner; "She dresses in the latest Paris fashion"; "he dressed up in a suit and tie"

rationalize, rationalise

v. remove irrational quantities from; "This function can be rationalized"

cleanly

adj. habitually clean; "cleanly in their persons and habitations"

clean

adj. not carrying concealed weapons

orderly

adj. devoid of violence or disruption; "an orderly crowd confronted the president"

trim, snug, fit, taut

adj. (seaworthy)

shipshape, trim, well-kept

adj. of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat"

anorexic, anorectic

adj. suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin

bladed

adj. composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade; "bladed arsenopyrite"

bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

compressed, flat

adj. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

deep-eyed, hollow-eyed, sunken-eyed

adj. characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver

slender, slight, slim, svelte

adj. being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

gangling, gangly, lanky

adj. tall and thin

lank, spindly

adj. long and lean

rawboned

adj. having a lean and bony physique; "a rawboned cow hand"

twiggy, twiglike

adj. thin as a twig

scarecrowish

adj. resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; "a forlorn scarecrowish figure"

skinny

adj. of or relating to or resembling skin

shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken

adj. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power"

slender-waisted, slim-waisted, wasp-waisted

adj. having a small waist

spindle-legged, spindle-shanked

adj. having long slender legs

wiry

adj. of hair that resembles wire in stiffness; "wiry red hair"

wisplike, wispy

adj. thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson

shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened

adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

chaste

adj. pure and simple in design or style; "a chaste border of conventionalized flowers"

mere, simple, bare

adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"

featureless

adj. lacking distinguishing characteristics or features; "the featureless landscape of the steppe"

inelaborate, unelaborate

adj. not elaborate; lacking rich or complex detail

literal

adj. avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis); "it's the literal truth"

simple

adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"

combed

adj. (of hair) made tidy with a comb; "with hair combed to the side"

ruly

adj. neat and tidy; "a small ruly beard"

slicked up

adj. having been made especially tidy; "slicked up for visitors"

clean-cut, trig, trim

adj. neat and smart in appearance; "a clean-cut and well-bred young man"; "the trig corporal in his jaunty cap"; "a trim beard"

caulked

adj. having cracks and crevices stopped up with a filler

equipped, fitted out

adj. prepared with proper equipment; "equipped for service in the Arctic"

leakproof

adj. not subject to leaks

untidy

adj. not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money"

flyblown, squalid, sordid

adj. foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"

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