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say it: TRIM-ing
trimming is a noun meaning "the act of adding decoration". It is pronounced /ˈtɹɪmɪŋ/ — TRIM-ing. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the act of adding decoration
“the children had to be in bed before it was time for the trimming of the tree”
a decoration or adornment on a garment
“the trimming on a hat”
“the trim on a shirt”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for trimming come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.