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Trimming vs Pinching - What's the difference?

trimming | pinching |

As nouns the difference between trimming and pinching

is that trimming is the act of someone who trims while pinching is the act of one who or that which pinches.

As verbs the difference between trimming and pinching

is that trimming is while pinching is .

As an adjective pinching is

that pinches, or causes such a sensation.

trimming

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of someone who trims.
  • I gave a good trimming to my elderly neighbour's hedges.
  • Material that is removed by someone trimming something, as a piece of steak.
  • :He gave the trimmings to the dog under the kitchen table.
  • An accompaniment to a meal.
  • :Christmas dinner with all the trimmings
  • (colloquial, dated) A reprimand or chastisting.
  • to give a boy a trimming

    Verb

    (head)
  • :I am helping my elderly neighbour by trimming his hedge.
  • pinching

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That pinches, or causes such a sensation
  • * 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
  • It was one January morning, very early — a pinching , frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who or that which pinches.
  • * 2012 , Paul Theroux, The Lower River
  • Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings , such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.