Fangle vs. Trim

To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.

To trim showily; entangle; hang about.

To waste time; trifle.

(obsolete) A prop; a taking up; a new thing.

Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.

A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.

A conceit; whim.

Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.

To fashion.

Example: ‘To control and new fangle the Scripture.’;

(transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess. The adposition of can be used in the present perfect tense to designate the removed part.

Example: ‘He trimmed his beard before the interview.’; ‘The hedge needs to be trimmed.’; ‘Place the screen material in the frame, secure it in place, and trim the edges.’; ‘The company trimmed jobs for the second time this year.’;

(transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.

Example: ‘They traditionally trim the tree on Christmas Eve.’;

To adjust pitch using trim tabs.

To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause to assume a certain position, or trim, in the water.

To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially to set them at the most advantageous angle.

(dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.

(transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

To dress; to make smooth.

To rebuke; to reprove.

To beat or thrash.

(uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.

Example: ‘Paint the house white with blue trim.’;

(countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.

Example: ‘I went to the hairdresser for a trim but came back nearly bald.’;

Dress; gear; ornaments.

(countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.

Example: ‘The car comes in three different trims.’; ‘to be in good trim’;

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.

Example: ‘He goes jogging every day to keep in trim.’;

Slender, lean.

Example: ‘a trim figure’;

Neat or smart in appearance.

Example: ‘a trim lawn’;

(nautical) In good order; properly managed or maintained.

(nautical) With sails well trimmed.

To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.

Example: ‘The hermit trimmed his little fire.’;

To dress; to decorate; to adorn; to invest; to embellish; as, to trim a hat.

Example: ‘A rotten building newly trimmed over.’; ‘I was trimmed in Julia's gown.’;

To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree.

To dress, as timber; to make smooth.

To adjust, as a ship, by arranging the cargo, or disposing the weight of persons or goods, so equally on each side of the center and at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well; as, to trim a ship, or a boat.

To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.

Example: ‘I found her trimming up the diademOn her dead mistress.’;

To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favor each.

Dress; gear; ornaments.

Example: ‘Seeing him just pass the window in his woodland trim.’;

Order; disposition; condition; as, to be in good trim.

The state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, etc., by which she is well prepared for sailing.

The lighter woodwork in the interior of a building; especially, that used around openings, generally in the form of a molded architrave, to protect the plastering at those points.

Fitly adjusted; being in good order., or made ready for service or use; firm; compact; snug; neat; fair; as, the ship is trim, or trim built; everything about the man is trim; a person is trim when his body is well shaped and firm; his dress is trim when it fits closely to his body, and appears tight and snug; a man or a soldier is trim when he stands erect.

Example: ‘With comely carriage of her countenance trim.’; ‘So deemed I till I viewed their trim arrayOf boats last night.’;

a state of arrangement or appearance;

Example: ‘in good trim’;

a decoration or adornment on a garment;

Example: ‘the trimming on a hat’; ‘the trim on a shirt’;

attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation

cutting down to the desired size or shape

remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size;

Example: ‘pare one's fingernails’; ‘trim the photograph’; ‘trim lumber’;

decorate, as with ornaments;

Example: ‘trim the christmas tree’; ‘trim a shop window’;

cut down on; make a reduction in;

Example: ‘reduce your daily fat intake’; ‘The employer wants to cut back health benefits’;

balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces;

Example: ‘trim an airplane’;

be in equilibrium during a flight;

Example: ‘The airplane trimmed’;

decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods

cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;

Example: ‘dress the plants in the garden’;

cut closely;

Example: ‘trim my beard’;

adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used

thin and fit;

Example: ‘the spare figure of a marathon runner’; ‘a body kept trim by exercise’;

(used of hair) neat and tidy;

Example: ‘a nicely kempt beard’;

of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder;

Example: ‘even the barn was shipshape’; ‘a trim little sailboat’;

(of persons) neat and smart in appearance;

Example: ‘a clean-cut and well-bred young man’; ‘the trig corporal in his jaunty cap’;

severely simple in line or design;

Example: ‘a neat tailored suit’; ‘tailored curtains’;