What is another word for trimming?

Pronunciation: [tɹˈɪmɪŋ] (IPA)

Trimming is a term commonly used to refer to the decorative additions that are used to enhance and beautify a piece of clothing, furniture, or other items. There are several synonyms that can be used instead of trimming, including edging, fringing, piping, binding, and hemming. These synonyms can be used depending on the type of decorative additions used in a particular item. Edging and fringing are used to refer to decorative trimmings that are added to the edges of fabrics. Piping is a term used to refer to a type of narrow fabric or plastic cord that is used to add decoration to a fabric edge. Binding is used to refer to a folded strip of fabric that is used to bind or finish the seams or edges of a piece of fabric. Hemming is used to refer to the finishing of the bottom edge of a garment or fabric.

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What are the hypernyms for Trimming?

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What are the hyponyms for Trimming?

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What are the opposite words for trimming?

Antonyms for the word "trimming" include "adding," "expanding," and "enlarging." To add something means to include it in a larger whole or to increase its quantity. Expanding refers to making something larger or more extensive, while enlarging denotes making something bigger in size, area, or capacity. These words are the opposite of trimming, which involves removing or cutting down something to make it smaller or neater. Therefore, the antonyms of trimming imply growth or enhancement, rather than reduction or simplification. Depending on the context, these antonyms can be used interchangeably to express opposing ideas.

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Usage examples for Trimming

Smoking his cigar, and trimming his nails with a very magnificent penknife, he gave short and listless replies to her Ladyship's queries, and did but glance at the papers which from time to time she handed to him for explanation or inquiry.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Then she took up the gloves and a strip of trimming, and looked at them with a little frown, but while she did so there were footsteps outside, and the door was opened.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
When I got there the old boy was in his office selling a Hereford to some young fellow from the north part of the state-I hope Lake County, because anybody from Lake County needs a trimming.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett

Famous quotes with Trimming

  • The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.
    Dean Koontz
  • The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?
    Jerry Pournelle
  • The part that wasn't a jackpot was his baseball mound of red pubic hair that looked like it had literally been attached with a glue gun. I couldn't believe how much there was, and wondered how he had never heard of scissors, or--more appropriate for that kind of growth--hedge trimmers. I didn't understand what porn he was watching to not be aware of the trimming that was happening all across the world among his compatriots. I'm not a finicky person when it comes to pubic hair maintenance and I certainly don't expect men to shave it all off, leaving themselves to look like a hairless cat. That's even creepier then than seeing what Austin had, which could really only be compared to one thing: A clown in a leg lock.
    Chelsea Handler
  • A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps.
    Theodore L. Cuyler
  • This is just one example of the trimming of the self that — along with the language itself, where verbs and nouns changed places as freely as one dare to have them do so — bred in us such an overpowering sense of ambivalence that in ten years we ended up with a willpower in no way superior to a seaweed’s.
    Joseph Brodsky

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