Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 74
Trim (a.) 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.
With comely carriage of her countenance trim. -- Spenser.
So deemed I till I viewed their trim array Of boats last night. -- Trench.
Trim (a.) Thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise" [syn: spare, trim].
Trim (a.) Of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat" [syn: shipshape, trim, well-kept].
Trim (a.) Neat and smart in appearance; "a clean-cut and well-bred young man"; "the trig corporal in his jaunty cap"; "a trim beard" [syn: clean-cut, trig, trim].
Trim (a.) Severely simple in line or design; "a neat tailored suit"; "tailored curtains" [syn: tailored, trim].
Trim (n.) A state of arrangement or appearance; "in good trim" [syn: trim, trimness].
Trim (n.) A decoration or adornment on a garment; "the trimming on a hat"; "the trim on a shirt" [syn: trimming, trim, passementerie].
Trim (n.) Attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation.
Trim (n.) Cutting down to the desired size or shape [syn: trim, trimming, clipping].
Trim (v.) Remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber" [syn: pare, trim].
Trim (v.) Decorate, as with ornaments; "trim the christmas tree"; "trim a shop window".
Trim (v.) Cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" [syn: reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down].
Trim (v.) Balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces; "trim an airplane".
Trim (v.) Be in equilibrium during a flight; "The airplane trimmed".
Trim (v.) Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods [syn: trim, garnish, dress].
Trim (v.) Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back].
Trim (v.) Cut closely; "trim my beard" [syn: shave, trim].
Trim (v.) Adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used.
Trimaculated (a.) Marked with three spots, or maculae.
Trimellic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain tribasic acid (called also trimellitic acid) metameric with trimesitic acid.
Trimembral (a.) Having, or consisting of, three members.
Trimera (n. pl.) A division of Coleoptera including those which have but three joints in the tarsi.
Trimeran (n.) One of the Trimera. Also used adjectively.
Trimerous (a.) Having the parts in threes.
Trimerous (a.) 三對的 Having the parts in threes -- used of a flower and often written 3-merous.
Trimesitic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a tribasic acid, C6H3.(CO2)3, of the aromatic series, obtained, by the oxidation of mesitylene, as a white crystalline substance.
Trimester (n.) A term or period of three months.
Trimestral (a.) Trimestrial.
Trimestrial (a.) Of or pertaining to a trimester, or period of three months; occurring once in every three months; quarterly.
Trimeter (a.) Consisting of three poetical measures.
Trimeter (n.) A poetical division of verse, consisting of three measures.
Trimethyl () A prefix or combining form (also used adjectively) indicating the presence of three methyl groups.
Trimethylamine (n.) A colorless volatile alkaline liquid, N.(CH3)3, obtained from herring brine, beet roots, etc., with a characteristic herringlike odor. It is regarded as a substituted ammonia containing three methyl groups.
Trimethylene (n.) A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H6, isomeric with propylene and obtained from it indirectly. It is the base of a series of compounds analogous to the aromatic hydrocarbons.
Trimetric (a.) Same as Orthorhombic.
Trimetrical (a.) Same as Trimeter.
Trimly (adv.) In a trim manner; nicely.
Trimmer (n.) 整理者；整修者；修剪工具；騎牆者；機會主義者；trim 的形容詞比較級 One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
Trimmer (n.) One who does not adopt extreme opinions in politics, or the like; one who fluctuates between parties, so as to appear to favor each; a timeserver.
Thus Halifax was a trimmer on principle. -- Macaulay.
Trimmer (n.) An instrument with which trimming is done.
Trimmer (n.) (Arch.) A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys, and the like. See Illust. of Header.
Trimmer (n.) (Coal Storage) An apparatus used for piling the coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism.
Trimmer (n.) A worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs; "untouched by the pruner's axe" [syn: pruner, trimmer].
Trimmer (n.) A machine that trims timber.
Trimmer (n.) Capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine adjustments [syn: trimmer, trimming capacitor].
Trimmer (n.) Joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc. [syn: trimmer, trimmer joist].
Trimming () a. from Trim, v.
Trimming (n.) The act of one who trims.
Trimming (n.) That which serves to trim, make right or fitting, adjust, ornament, or the like; especially, the necessary or the ornamental appendages, as of a garment; hence, sometimes, the concomitants of a dish; a relish; -- usually in the pluraltrimmings. --.
Trimming (n.) The act of reprimanding or chastisting; as, to give a boy a trimming.
Trimmingly (adv.) In a trimming manner.
Trimness (n.) The quality or state of being trim; orderliness; compactness; snugness; neatness.
Trimorph (n.) A substance which crystallizes in three distinct forms, or which has three distinct physical states; also, any one of these distinct forms. See Trimorphism, 1.
Trimorphic (a.) Alt. of Trimorphous
Trimorphous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, trimorphism; -- contrasted with monomorphic, dimorphic, and polymorphic.
Trimorphism (n.) The property of crystallizing in three forms fundamentally distinct, as is the case with titanium dioxide, which crystallizes in the forms of rutile, octahedrite, and brookite. See Pleomorphism.
Trimorphism (n.) The coexistence among individuals of the same species of three distinct forms, not connected, as a rule, by intermediate gradations; the condition among individuals of the same species of having three different shapes or proportions of corresponding parts; -- contrasted with polymorphism, and dimorphism.
Trimurti (n.) The triad, or trinity, of Hindu gods, consisting of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.
Trimyarian (n.) A lamellibranch which has three muscular scars on each valve.
Trinal (a.) 三的，三倍的，三重的 Threefold. "Trinal unity." -- Milton.
In their trinal triplicities on high. -- Spenser.
Trindle (v. t. & n.) See Trundle.
Trine (a.) 三倍的；三重的；三層的；三部分組成的；【天】（占星）三分一對座的 Threefold; triple; as, trine dimensions, or length, breadth, and thickness.
Trine (n.) 三個一組；【天】（占星）三分一對座（兩行星相距120度，被視為吉利）；（T-）三位一體（= Trinity） The aspect of planets distant from each other 120 degrees, or one third of the zodiac; trigon.
Trine (n.) A triad; trinity.
Trine (v. t.) To put in the aspect of a trine.
Trinervate (a.) Having three ribs or nerves extending unbranched from the base to the apex; -- said of a leaf.
Trinerve (a.) Alt. of Trinerved
Trinerved (a.) Same as Trinervate.
Tringa (n.) A genus of limicoline birds including many species of sandpipers. See Dunlin, Knot, and Sandpiper.
Tringle (n.) A curtain rod for a bedstead.
Tringoid (a.) Of or pertaining to Tringa, or the Sandpiper family.
Trinitarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Trinity, the doctrine of the Trinity, or believers in that doctrine.
Trinitarian (n.) One who believes in the doctrine of the Trinity.
Trinitarian (n.) One of a monastic order founded in Rome in 1198 by St. John of Matha, and an old French hermit, Felix of Valois, for the purpose of redeeming Christian captives from the Mohammedans.
Trinitarianism (n.) The doctrine of the Trinity; the doctrine that there are three distinct persons in the Godhead.
Trinitrocellulose (n.) Gun cotton; -- so called because regarded as containing three nitro groups.
Trinitrophenol (n.) Picric acid.
Trinity (n.) (Christian Theol.) 三個（人或物）一組；三位一體 [C] [S1] [（+of）]；（大寫）（基督教）三位一體 [the S]；（大寫）復活主日（= Trinity Sunday）；三，三倍；天主聖三 The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality.
Trinity (n.) Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindu trinity, or Trimurti.
Trinity (n.) Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the triangle.
Trinity House, An institution in London for promoting commerce and navigation, by licensing pilots, ordering and erecting beacons, and the like.
Trinity Sunday, The Sunday next after Whitsunday; -- so called from the feast held on that day in honor of the Holy Trinity.
Trinity term. (Law) See the Note under Term, n., 5.
Trinity (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce-ace].
Trinity (n.) The union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead [syn: Trinity, Holy Trinity, Blessed Trinity, Sacred Trinity].
Trinity (n.) Three people considered as a unit [syn: trio, threesome, triad, trinity].
Trinity, () A word not found in Scripture, but used to express the doctrine of the unity of God as subsisting in three distinct Persons.
This word is derived from the Gr. trias, first used by Theophilus (A.D. 168-183), or from the Lat. trinitas, first used by Tertullian (A.D. 220), to express this doctrine. The propositions involved in the doctrine are these: 1. That God is one, and that there is but one God (Deut. 6:4; 1 Kings 8:60; Isa. 44:6; Mark 12:29, 32; John 10:30). 2. That the Father is a distinct divine Person (hypostasis, subsistentia, persona, suppositum intellectuale), distinct from the Son and the Holy Spirit. 3. That Jesus Christ was truly God, and yet was a Person distinct from the Father and the Holy Spirit. 4. That the Holy Spirit is also a distinct divine Person.
Trinity (n.) In the multiplex theism of certain Christian churches, three entirely distinct deities consistent with only one. Subordinate deities of the polytheistic faith, such as devils and angels, are not dowered with the power of combination, and must urge individually their claims to adoration and propitiation. The Trinity is one of the most sublime mysteries of our holy religion. In rejecting it because it is incomprehensible, Unitarians betray their inadequate sense of theological fundamentals. In religion we believe only what we do not understand, except in the instance of an intelligible doctrine that contradicts an incomprehensible one. In that case we believe the former as a part of the latter.
Trinity -- U.S. County in California
Population (2000): 13022
Housing Units (2000): 7980
Land area (2000): 3178.607390 sq. miles (8232.554997 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 28.933587 sq. miles (74.937644 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3207.540977 sq. miles (8307.492641 sq. km)
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 40.667129 N, 123.070397 W
Headwords:
Trinity
Trinity, CA
Trinity County
Trinity County, CA
Trinity -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 13779
Housing Units (2000): 8141
Land area (2000): 692.844560 sq. miles (1794.459095 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 21.158212 sq. miles (54.799514 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 714.002772 sq. miles (1849.258609 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.008608 N, 95.204909 W
Headwords:
Trinity
Trinity, TX
Trinity County
Trinity County, TX
Trinity, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000): 1841
Housing Units (2000): 728
Land area (2000): 3.620374 sq. miles (9.376724 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.620374 sq. miles (9.376724 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76872
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 34.603808 N, 87.086137 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 35673
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Trinity, AL
Trinity
Trinity, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
Population (2000): 4279
Housing Units (2000): 1863
Land area (2000): 4.721134 sq. miles (12.227680 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.721134 sq. miles (12.227680 sq. km)
FIPS code: 72442
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 28.177854 N, 82.671139 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Trinity, FL
Trinity
Trinity, NC -- U.S. city in North Carolina
Population (2000): 6690
Housing Units (2000): 2759
Land area (2000): 16.897125 sq. miles (43.763351 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.096566 sq. miles (0.250104 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 16.993691 sq. miles (44.013455 sq. km)
FIPS code: 68400
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.873522 N, 80.010158 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 27370
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Trinity, NC
Trinity
Trinity, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 2721
Housing Units (2000): 1284
Land area (2000): 3.778128 sq. miles (9.785305 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.778128 sq. miles (9.785305 sq. km)
FIPS code: 73664
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 30.945495 N, 95.375599 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 75862
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Trinity, TX
Trinity
Trinity (n.) [ C usually singular ] (Literary) 三件套；三人一組；三合一 A group of three things or people.
// Modern culture now appears to revolve around the unholy trinity of sport, shopping, and sex.
// Above all Amenabar worships the trinity of Hitchcock, Kubrick, and Spielberg.
The Trinity (n.) [ S ] (Also The Holy Trinity) （基督教中的）三位一體（指聖父、聖子和聖靈合為上帝） In Christianity, the existence of one God in three forms, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Triniunity (n.) Triunity; trinity.
Trink (n.) A kind of fishing net.
Trinket (n.) 小裝飾品；不值錢的東西 A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.
Trinket (n.) A knife; a cutting tool.
Trinket (n.) A small ornament, as a jewel, ring, or the like.
Trinket (n.) A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.
Trinket (v. i.) To give trinkets; hence, to court favor; to intrigue. [Obs.]
Trinketer (n.) One who trinkets.
Trinketer (n.) A person who deals secretly or surreptitiously.
Trinketry (n.) Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively.
Trinkle (v. i.) To act secretly, or in an underhand way; to tamper.
Trinoctial (a.) Lasting during three nights; comprising three nights.
Trinodal (a.) Having three knots or nodes; having three points from which a leaf may shoot; as, a trinodal stem.
Trinodal (a.) Having three nodal points.
Trinomial (n.) A quantity consisting of three terms, connected by the sign + or -; as, x + y + z, or ax + 2b - c2.
Trinomial (a.) Consisting of three terms; of or pertaining to trinomials; as, a trinomial root.
Trinominal (n. & a.) Trinomial.
Trinucleus (n.) A genus of Lower Silurian trilobites in which the glabella and cheeks form three rounded elevations on the head.
Trio (n.) Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united.
Trio (n.) A composition for three parts or three instruments.
Trio (n.) The secondary, or episodical, movement of a minuet or scherzo, as in a sonata or symphony, or of a march, or of various dance forms; -- not limited to three parts or instruments.
Triobolar (a.) Alt. of Triobolary
Triobolary (a.) Of the value of three oboli; hence, mean; worthless.
Trioctile (n.) (Astrol.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are three octants, or three eighths of a circle, that is, 135 degrees, distant from each other.
Trioecia (n. pl.) (Bot.) The third order of the Linnaean class Polygamia.
Trioecious (a.) (Bot.) Having three sorts of flowers on the same or on differen plants, some of the flowers being staminate, others pistillate, and others both staminate and pistillate; belonging to the order Tri[oe]cia.
Triole (n.) Same as Triplet.
Triolein (n.) See Olein.
Triolet (n.) A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth.
Trionychoidea (n. pl.) A division of chelonians which comprises Trionyx and allied genera; -- called also Trionychoides, and Trionychina.
Trionyx (n.) A genus of fresh-water or river turtles which have the shell imperfectly developed and covered with a soft leathery skin. They are noted for their agility and rapacity. Called also soft tortoise, soft-shell tortoise, and mud turtle.
Trior (n.) Same as Trier, 2 and 3.
Trioxide (n.) An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen; as, sulphur trioxide, SO3; -- formerly called tritoxide.
Tripped (imp. & p. p.) of Trip
Tripping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trip
Trip (v. i.) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5.
Trip (v. i.) To make a brief journey or pleasure excursion; as, to trip to Europe.
Trip (v. i.) To take a quick step, as when in danger of losing one's balance; hence, to make a false; to catch the foot; to lose footing; to stumble.
Trip (v. i.) Fig.: To be guilty of a misstep; to commit an offense against morality, propriety, or rule; to err; to mistake; to fail.
Trip (v. t.) To cause to stumble, or take a false step; to cause to lose the footing, by striking the feet from under; to cause to fall; to throw off the balance; to supplant; -- often followed by up; as, to trip up a man in wrestling.
Trip (v. t.) Fig.: To overthrow by depriving of support; to put an obstacle in the way of; to obstruct; to cause to fail.
Trip (v. t.) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
Trip (v. t.) (Naut.) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
Trip (v. t.) (Naut.) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.