trimmed
part of speech
verb form (past and past participle of «trim»: trim, trims, trimmed, trimming); adjective (trimmed)
meaning for a pupil
1) Trimmed means cut a little to make it neat or tidy, such as trimmed hair, hedges or nails. tree →
2) Trimmed means made smaller by cutting away extra parts, such as fat from meat or words from an essay. tree →
3) Trimmed with something means decorated along the edges: a coat trimmed with fur. tree →
4) (maths, statistics) A trimmed mean is an average worked out after removing the highest and lowest values. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life: hair, hedges, nails and Christmas trees are trimmed. In writing lessons a long story can be trimmed. In maths, a trimmed mean ignores the extremes. Phrases: «neatly trimmed», «trimmed with lace», «trim the tree», «trimmed down».
examples
- Dad trimmed the hedge with big shears. tree →
- I got my fringe trimmed at the hairdresser's. tree →
- The dress was trimmed with blue ribbon. tree →
- We trimmed the Christmas tree with tinsel and lights. tree →
- The butcher trimmed the fat off the meat. tree →
- My essay was too long, so I trimmed it down to 300 words. tree →
- The judges used a trimmed mean, removing the top and bottom scores. tree →
- Early one morning the queen went into the bath-room; it was built of marble, and had soft cushions, trimmed with the most beautiful tapestry. tree →
note
Past of «trim»: double «m» in trimmed and trimming. «Trim» can also be an adjective meaning slim and neat («a trim figure»).
Trees and pragmatics
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