Strip vs Trim - What's the difference?
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(countable, uncountable) Material in long, thin pieces.
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A landing strip.
A strip steak.
A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
(fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
(UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
Striptease.
(mining) A trough for washing ore.
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
To remove or take away.
(usually) To take off clothing.
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To perform a striptease.
To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
* Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 23
* Macaulay
* The robbers stripped Norm of everything he owned.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
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To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
To remove the thread or teeth from (a screw, nut, or gear).
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
(bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)
To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
(television) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
(agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
(obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
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* Beaumont and Fletcher
To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'. The adposition of can be used in present perfect tense to designate the removed part.
To decorate or adorn; especially, to decorate a Christmas tree.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
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, chapter=1 (nautical) To modify the angle of a vessel to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause a vessel to assume, a certain position, or trim, in the water. (FM 55-501).
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(nautical) To modify the angle of a vessel's sails relative to the wind, especially to set the sails to the most advantageous angle.
(dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
* Goldsmith
(carpentry) To dress (timber); to make smooth.
(dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
(uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
(countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
Dress; gear; ornaments.
* Sir Walter Scott
(countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
Sexual intercourse.
(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.
(nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
Physically fit.
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Slender, lean.
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Neat or smart in appearance.
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*1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
*: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.
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*:“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,.
(nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
(nautical) With sails well trimmed.
In transitive terms the difference between strip and trim
is that strip is to milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk while trim is to decorate or adorn; especially, to decorate a Christmas tree.As an adjective trim is
physically fit.As an adverb trim is
in good order, properly managed or maintained.strip
English
Etymology 1
From alteration ofNoun
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- (Farrow)
Derived terms
* bimetal strip * clip strip * comic strip * electronic strip * landing strip * * nature strip * rubbing strip * strip cartoon * strip mallEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
- Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
- They stripped Joseph out of his coat.
- opinions which no clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown
- He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped ; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.
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- After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the man stripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.
- The thread is stripped .
- The screw is stripped .
- when first they stripped the Malean promontory
- Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stripped him.
Synonyms
* deprive * peel * uncoverQuotations
* (English Citations of "strip")Derived terms
* strip away * strip down * strip off * striptease * stripped down * stripperReferences
* OED 2nd edition 1989 * Funk&Wagnalls Standard College DictionaryExternal links
* (wikipedia "strip") *Anagrams
* ----trim
English
(wikipedia trim)Verb
- (present perfect example)
- A rotten building newly trimmed over.
- I was trimmed in Julia's gown.
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- The captain made us trim the boat, and we got her to lie a little more evenly.
- The hermit trimmed his little fire.
Noun
(en noun)- Paint the house white with blue trim .
- I went to the hairdresser for a trim but came back nearly bald.
- seeing him just pass the window in his woodland trim
- The car comes in three different trims .
- to be in good trim
- (Chapman)