Weed vs Trim - What's the difference?
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A plant.
# (label) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
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, title= # (label) A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.
# Short for duckweed.
# Underbrush; low shrubs.
#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
#* (1809-1892)
A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.
# Marijuana.
# Tobacco.
# A cigar.
A horse unfit to breed from.
A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.
A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.
(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
* 1599 ,
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.
(archaic) widow's weeds : female mourning apparel
* Milton
(wee)
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
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, 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).
* 1883 ,
(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.
:
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.
As nouns the difference between weed and trim
is that weed is pasture or weed can be willow while trim is (uncountable) decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.As a verb trim is
to reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; eg 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard' the adposition of can be used in present perfect tense to designate the removed part.As an adjective trim is
physically fit.As an adverb trim is
(nautical) in good order, properly managed or maintained.weed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds . Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
- one rushing forth out of the thickest weed
- A wild and wanton pard/ Crouched fawning in the weed .
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* goutweed * hawkweed * horseweed * in the weeds * knapweed * knotweed * milkweed * pigweed * ragweed * tumbleweedSee also
* grow like a weed * weedsEtymology 2
From (etyl) .See also
* weed outEtymology 3
From (etyl) , from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate to Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, German Wat.Noun
(en noun)- DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;
- And then to Leonato's we will go.
- CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,
- Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!
- These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.
- He wore a weed on his hat.
- In a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.
Etymology 4
From the verb wee.Verb
(head)References
* *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)