Trimmer vs Beard - What's the difference?
trimmer | beard |
(trim)
One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
A device used to trim.
(nautical) a member of the crew who trims the sails.
Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest.
* 1848 , (Baron Macaulay), History of England , I.2:
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 9:
(architecture) A beam into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys.
Facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw.
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
The byssus of certain shellfish.
The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
(botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
(printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
(LGBT, slang) A woman who accompanies a gay male in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.
(obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
* Macaulay
* Barnaby , December 6, 1943
* Ross Macdonald, The Chill , 1963, pg.92, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
As an adjective trimmer
is (trim).As a noun trimmer
is one who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.As a proper noun beard is
.trimmer
English
Adjective
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Thus Halifax was a Trimmer on principle.
- Lady Margaret Beaufort's third husband, Lord Stanley, an accomplished political trimmer , gave fair words but little commitment: the vast, well-armed Stanley retinues shadowed Henry's route southeast to the battlefield and waited, detached, to see how the chips fell.
beard
English
Noun
(en noun)- the beard of grain
Derived terms
* beardedSee also
* (wikipedia) * goatee * hair * moustache, mustache * pogonophobia * sideburns, sideboards * whiskers * awnVerb
(en verb)- Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
- No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.
- We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...
- . . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.