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单词 trimmer
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Definition of trimmer in English:

trimmer

noun ˈtrɪməˈtrɪmər
  • 1An implement used for cutting and neatening something.

    a hedge trimmer
    Example sentencesExamples
    • You can also use a comb and scissors, but trimmers are generally a little faster.
    • Finally, when you trim those unwanted whiskers, remember to take it easy with the trimmer and read the instructions before doing something that could be potentially dangerous.
    • More than £500 was raised at a charity day held at the Park Pavilion recently, which Mrs Smith said would buy grass trimmers and a lawnmower.
    • Alternatives to using glyphosate on weeds are: using a line trimmer or brush cutter, hand pulling weeds, steam or hot water treatment.
    • This evening as I stepped out the front door, I heard the hideous whine of a saw - no, it's a weed trimmer - down the street.
    • For example, supplies for a lawn care business could include rakes, a mower, and trimmers, while a printing business would require ink, paper, and a computer.
    • This unit packs plenty of punch for nearly any commercial application and can accommodate a trimmer, edger, tiller/cultivator, shaft hedge clipper, a power broom, dethatcher and a power pruner.
    • Cutting bars can range from 18 to 40 inches, and units tend to weigh anywhere from 10 to 15 pounds for most professional quality trimmers.
    • Think about sharp things you use everyday such as tools, nail trimmers, razors, knives, even dental floss.
    • Other men take various middle routes between the above extremes, involving purchase of one or more of shavers, nasal trimmers, eyebrow pluckers, waxing kits and electric shock treatment.
    • Ultimately, I found a way around the issue: each week, I use a beard trimmer without the comb, resulting in something like a 2-day growth that looks really good.
    • Use an electric razor when shaving and be cautious when using nail trimmers, knives, etc.
    • Gary spotted electric trimmers going cheap in Woolworths and brought them home, so both he and Lewis ended up with really short cuts.
    • Weed trimmers, lawn edgers and those things I hate the most - leaf blowers - have become staples in many Canadian garages.
    • Cordless vacuum cleaners, trimmers, drills and grass shears would not exist if not for the need for self-contained power tools used by Apollo astronauts on the Moon.
    • It's a shift-working city, so we have lawn mowers, trimmers, and power washers making a racket seven days a week between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m.
    • The razor has two foils and a long-hair trimmer to deal with longer hairs and stubble.
    • First-timers should start with a beard trimmer, while the bold can try the razor route.
    • The rest bring their own pruning saws, chainsaws, rakes, trimmers, blowers and whatever else is needed and do the work that is set out in the yearly planner.
    • Both types usually come with a sideburn trimmer, and it's a very useful feature.
    Synonyms
    equivocator, vicar of bray
  • 2A person who adapts their views to the prevailing political trends for personal advancement.

    he is a clever trimmer, a closet federalist unchanged at heart
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Barère, always the trimmer, arranged a joint meeting of the governing committees on the twenty-second at which it was agreed to speed up the implementation of the Laws of Ventôse.
    • Given his position, it is not surprising that Whitelocke has been regarded by many commentators as a trimmer and time-server, but he is a reminder that many men did not wish to take sides or place themselves in peril.
    • And trimmers drifted further and further to the right in an elusive search for the ‘center’ of American politics.
    • Even better, he is prepared to stand up for his beliefs and treat the smug superiority of the trimmers, appeasers and Euro-elites with the contempt that they deserve.
    • He, by contrast, is a trimmer and temporizer who has stood up for tyrants far more than he has stood up to them.
    • We need trimmers far more than we need the iron resolve of the crisis leader.
    • But despite his conservative beginnings, D' Amato turned out to be ever the trimmer, lurching toward the center whenever he thought that it would win votes or money.
    • He's a trimmer, a politician of convenience who moves his positions around, depending on which way the wind is blowing.
  • 3A person who decorates something.

    window trimmers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • That drive led the younger Gordy to abandon his US $86.40-a-week job as an upholstery trimmer on a Ford assembly line and to pursue a career in the music industry.
    • Indeed, the composite make-up of carriages always mandated multiple skills, from body maker to smith, from trimmer to painter.
    • I got trimmer's thumb now from all those damn drawing pins.
  • 4Architecture
    A crosspiece fixed between full-length joists (and often across the end of truncated joists) to form part of the frame of an opening in a floor or roof.

    trimmer joists
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They support a trimmer joist which itself supports trimmed joists, joined together using 'timber to timber' hangers.
    • Never nail headers through a double trimmer.
    • Check your blueprint for the distance of the sill from the floor, then measure and mark it on the trimmer studs.
  • 5A person responsible for trimming the sails of a yacht.

    the spinnaker trimmer
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Three crew changes were made during the Auckland stop-over in an attempt to resurrect the women's flagging fortunes and these included Scottish ocean sailor Emma Richards as helmsman / trimmer.
    • As trimmer / helmsman, Richards agrees she could not have picked a more daunting debut in the round-the-world race.
    • With smooth proficiency, the trimmers backed the jib, and the mainsail was eased, swinging the bow around.
    • Quite where messing about became a full-blown profession he is hard put to say, but from life as a humble trimmer, he joined the ill-fated GBR America's Cup challenge where he ‘fell into navigating by accident’.
    • During the race, Tom Droescher, working as the spinnaker trimmer, was swept overboard during a jibe and landed on his back in the 45-degree waters of Puget Sound.
    • A trimmer / helmsman on board had only one thing on his mind when he arrived in Capetown at the end of leg one - romance.
    1. 5.1 A person employed to arrange cargo or fuel in a ship's hold.
      a stoppage by coal bunkerers and trimmers working on the same ship
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The trimmers would have been there with their huge shovels making sure that the coal was properly spread out in the holds of the ship to ensure the ship's stability.
      • Young persons below 18 are not to be employed as trimmers or stokers at sea.
      • Oil's great advantages were convenience, reduced manning due to removing the need for trimmers and stokers, and reduced space needed for fuel bunkers.
  • 6A small capacitor or other component used to tune a circuit such as a radio set.

    as modifier trimmer capacitors
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Lightweight Model 1196 features a trimmer receiver and a slimmer, lighter barrel than its 1187 older brother.
    • The type illustrated usually has trimmers built in (for making small adjustments - see below) as well as the main variable capacitor.
    • I thought that there should be a trimmer somewhere on the radio to tune the stations in stronger.
  • 7Australian NZ informal An excellent or outstanding person or thing.

    you little trimmer—it'll suit me down to the ground

Rhymes

dimmer, glimmer, limber, limner, shimmer, simmer, skimmer, slimmer, strimmer, swimmer, zimmer
 
 

Definition of trimmer in US English:

trimmer

nounˈtrimərˈtrɪmər
  • 1An implement used for trimming off the unwanted or untidy parts of something.

    a hedge trimmer
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Cutting bars can range from 18 to 40 inches, and units tend to weigh anywhere from 10 to 15 pounds for most professional quality trimmers.
    • The razor has two foils and a long-hair trimmer to deal with longer hairs and stubble.
    • Alternatives to using glyphosate on weeds are: using a line trimmer or brush cutter, hand pulling weeds, steam or hot water treatment.
    • First-timers should start with a beard trimmer, while the bold can try the razor route.
    • More than £500 was raised at a charity day held at the Park Pavilion recently, which Mrs Smith said would buy grass trimmers and a lawnmower.
    • Weed trimmers, lawn edgers and those things I hate the most - leaf blowers - have become staples in many Canadian garages.
    • This evening as I stepped out the front door, I heard the hideous whine of a saw - no, it's a weed trimmer - down the street.
    • It's a shift-working city, so we have lawn mowers, trimmers, and power washers making a racket seven days a week between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m.
    • Finally, when you trim those unwanted whiskers, remember to take it easy with the trimmer and read the instructions before doing something that could be potentially dangerous.
    • Think about sharp things you use everyday such as tools, nail trimmers, razors, knives, even dental floss.
    • Ultimately, I found a way around the issue: each week, I use a beard trimmer without the comb, resulting in something like a 2-day growth that looks really good.
    • Other men take various middle routes between the above extremes, involving purchase of one or more of shavers, nasal trimmers, eyebrow pluckers, waxing kits and electric shock treatment.
    • Use an electric razor when shaving and be cautious when using nail trimmers, knives, etc.
    • Cordless vacuum cleaners, trimmers, drills and grass shears would not exist if not for the need for self-contained power tools used by Apollo astronauts on the Moon.
    • This unit packs plenty of punch for nearly any commercial application and can accommodate a trimmer, edger, tiller/cultivator, shaft hedge clipper, a power broom, dethatcher and a power pruner.
    • Gary spotted electric trimmers going cheap in Woolworths and brought them home, so both he and Lewis ended up with really short cuts.
    • You can also use a comb and scissors, but trimmers are generally a little faster.
    • Both types usually come with a sideburn trimmer, and it's a very useful feature.
    • For example, supplies for a lawn care business could include rakes, a mower, and trimmers, while a printing business would require ink, paper, and a computer.
    • The rest bring their own pruning saws, chainsaws, rakes, trimmers, blowers and whatever else is needed and do the work that is set out in the yearly planner.
    Synonyms
    equivocator, vicar of bray
  • 2A person who adapts their views to the prevailing political trends for personal advancement.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And trimmers drifted further and further to the right in an elusive search for the ‘center’ of American politics.
    • He, by contrast, is a trimmer and temporizer who has stood up for tyrants far more than he has stood up to them.
    • We need trimmers far more than we need the iron resolve of the crisis leader.
    • He's a trimmer, a politician of convenience who moves his positions around, depending on which way the wind is blowing.
    • Even better, he is prepared to stand up for his beliefs and treat the smug superiority of the trimmers, appeasers and Euro-elites with the contempt that they deserve.
    • Barère, always the trimmer, arranged a joint meeting of the governing committees on the twenty-second at which it was agreed to speed up the implementation of the Laws of Ventôse.
    • But despite his conservative beginnings, D' Amato turned out to be ever the trimmer, lurching toward the center whenever he thought that it would win votes or money.
    • Given his position, it is not surprising that Whitelocke has been regarded by many commentators as a trimmer and time-server, but he is a reminder that many men did not wish to take sides or place themselves in peril.
  • 3A person who decorates something.

    window trimmers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • That drive led the younger Gordy to abandon his US $86.40-a-week job as an upholstery trimmer on a Ford assembly line and to pursue a career in the music industry.
    • I got trimmer's thumb now from all those damn drawing pins.
    • Indeed, the composite make-up of carriages always mandated multiple skills, from body maker to smith, from trimmer to painter.
  • 4Architecture
    A crosspiece fixed between full-length joists (and often across the end of truncated joists) to form part of the frame of an opening in a floor or roof.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Check your blueprint for the distance of the sill from the floor, then measure and mark it on the trimmer studs.
    • They support a trimmer joist which itself supports trimmed joists, joined together using 'timber to timber' hangers.
    • Never nail headers through a double trimmer.
  • 5A person responsible for trimming the sails of a yacht.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • With smooth proficiency, the trimmers backed the jib, and the mainsail was eased, swinging the bow around.
    • Three crew changes were made during the Auckland stop-over in an attempt to resurrect the women's flagging fortunes and these included Scottish ocean sailor Emma Richards as helmsman / trimmer.
    • As trimmer / helmsman, Richards agrees she could not have picked a more daunting debut in the round-the-world race.
    • A trimmer / helmsman on board had only one thing on his mind when he arrived in Capetown at the end of leg one - romance.
    • During the race, Tom Droescher, working as the spinnaker trimmer, was swept overboard during a jibe and landed on his back in the 45-degree waters of Puget Sound.
    • Quite where messing about became a full-blown profession he is hard put to say, but from life as a humble trimmer, he joined the ill-fated GBR America's Cup challenge where he ‘fell into navigating by accident’.
    1. 5.1 A person employed to arrange cargo or fuel in a ship's hold.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Young persons below 18 are not to be employed as trimmers or stokers at sea.
      • Oil's great advantages were convenience, reduced manning due to removing the need for trimmers and stokers, and reduced space needed for fuel bunkers.
      • The trimmers would have been there with their huge shovels making sure that the coal was properly spread out in the holds of the ship to ensure the ship's stability.
  • 6A small capacitor or other component used to tune a circuit such as a radio set.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The type illustrated usually has trimmers built in (for making small adjustments - see below) as well as the main variable capacitor.
    • The Lightweight Model 1196 features a trimmer receiver and a slimmer, lighter barrel than its 1187 older brother.
    • I thought that there should be a trimmer somewhere on the radio to tune the stations in stronger.
 
 
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