What's the difference between garnish and trim?

Garnish


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
  • (v. t.) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
  • (v. t.) To furnish; to supply.
  • (v. t.) To fit with fetters.
  • (v. t.) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee. See Garnishee, v. t.
  • (n.) Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially such as are showy or decorated.
  • (n.) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. See Garnish, v. t., 2.
  • (v. t.) Fetters.
  • (v. t.) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded by the old prisoners of a newcomer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Up to 80% of inmates’ earnings, however, can be garnished to go toward room and board, victim restitution, child support and mandatory savings.
  • (2) Even where meat or fish appears it is not as the star of the show but, in a neat reversal, more as a garnish.
  • (3) Garnish the squares with the whipped cream and pecans, if you like.
  • (4) A kung pao chicken appetizer was made with chicken McNuggets doused in sweet and sour sauce and garnished with parsley.
  • (5) In January, the WA corrective services minister, Joe Francis, described serving jail time to pay down fines as the “soft option” and announced “tougher” penalties, including the option of garnishing welfare payments to pay off unpaid fines.
  • (6) The Heritage Assessment Tool, in combination with questions relating to health and illness beliefs and practices was helpful in helping informants remember events in their childhood and also in garnishing health and illness beliefs and practices.
  • (7) Looking at it, there was nothing special about this one – a plain roll in a plastic package, no salad or garnish, a little too much mayo.
  • (8) Sprinkle on top of your curry as garnish and serve with rice.
  • (9) Divide between plates and garnish with a little lick of extra virgin olive oil, if you like.
  • (10) He said the state government was also in talks with the federal government about “having the authority to garnish wages from welfare”, saying “that may be one way of trying to get money off people”.
  • (11) Whilst routinely described as tragic, Hoffman's death is insufficiently sad to be left un-supplemented in the mandatory posthumous scramble for salacious garnish; we will now be subjected to mourn-ography posing as analysis.
  • (12) Photograph: Zaytoun Roast parsnip and carrot salad with freekeh and a yoghurt dressing Recipe by Jane Baxter Serves 4-6 500g parsnips 500g carrots 30g butter melted 1 tbsp Zaytoun olive oil 100g smokey freekah Dressing: 200ml yoghurt juice and zest of 1 orange 1 clove garlic crushed pinch ground cumin and cardamom 75g pitted dates finely chopped 1 red chilli finely chopped 1 tsp honey 1 tbsp chopped mint Bunch of watercess Salt and pepper To garnish: pomegranate seeds , extra mint and za’atar Pre–heat oven 190C.
  • (13) Now Alex Iwobi made an auspicious first league start, garnished with a goal.
  • (14) 8 To serve, flood four plates with the sauce; put two red mullet fillets on each plate, skin-side uppermost, and garnish with sprigs of rosemary.
  • (15) Here are a few ideas to get you started sautéed courgette flowers chorizo with potatoes shredded chilli-smoked chicken slow-cooked pork confit of pork poached and shredded chicken, cooked in mouthwatering moles stuffed chillies beans gently cooked with spices and aromatics grilled fish Arrange the table with taco fillings, salsas and garnishes of your choice.
  • (16) It is a frequent outcome for site-specific work, which began in the late 1960s as a reaction to the growing commodification of art, but during the 80s and 90s was all too often a ready-made garnish for corporate lobbies and commercial piazzas – what American architect James Wines summed up as the "turd on the plaza".
  • (17) Top with the broad beans and garnish with the remaining chopped mint.
  • (18) Dishes are delicately garnished with flavour-packed herb snippets and bright pink or purple edible flowers.
  • (19) Everything else is garnish, and all of it leaves you feeling either one-dimensionally frenetic or complicatedly wretched.
  • (20) There is a batter base, an obligatory cabbage filling and quite strict garnishes – but otherwise, the rest of the ingredients come down to what's at hand.

Trim


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
  • (v. t.) To dress; to decorate; to adorn; to invest; to embellish; as, to trim a hat.
  • (v. t.) To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree.
  • (v. t.) To dress, as timber; to make smooth.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To arrange in due order for sailing; as, to trim the sails.
  • (v. t.) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
  • (v. i.) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favor each.
  • (n.) Dress; gear; ornaments.
  • (n.) Order; disposition; condition; as, to be in good trim.
  • (n.) The state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, etc., by which she is well prepared for sailing.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) 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 Sentences:

  • (1) Analysts have trimmed their profit forecasts for this year with trading profits of £3.3bn pencilled in compared with £3.5bn in 2012-13.
  • (2) The three rooms are plush and contemporary with tartan trim.
  • (3) Castanospermine (Cas), an inhibitor of alpha-glucosidase I, blocks "trimming" of the N-linked oligosaccharide Glc3Man9GlcNAc2, thus preventing normal glycoprotein maturation.
  • (4) The shredded fibres were trimmed in most cases and this allowed better definition of the amount of ligament considered to be torn.
  • (5) The carboxymethyl cellulose block was trimmed and a piece of copy paper was attached to the surface of the block with cellulose tape.
  • (6) Taylor, a sixty-something man with a neatly trimmed beard and a palpable pride in his business, has made "a couple of small sales" so far today, but footfall in the town is pretty underwhelming, and, in the market, almost non-existent.
  • (7) Asda and Morrisons have already shed thousands of staff by trimming management jobs in stores and behind the scenes.
  • (8) Likewise, a neoplasm may regrow locally or metastasize if a surgical border infiltrated with neoplastic cells is falsely assumed to be an artifactual trimming border.
  • (9) However, trimmed hams and loins from the 20-ppm RAC treatment represented a greater (P less than .05) percentage of carcass weight than did those from control animals.
  • (10) Players were warned before this year's tournament that officials would be rigorously enforcing its rules on "almost entirely white" clothing – meaning that the bright underwear, coloured soles and conspicuously contrasting trim spotted in previous years would be outlawed.
  • (11) It is suggested that C-terminal trimming of Lb to produce Lb' results in an increase in negative charge and is responsible for its slower migration in SDS-PAGE.
  • (12) The report of the inquiry, which helped bring down the Irish government of the day, found fraud and serious illegality in Goodman's companies in the 1980s that had involved not just the faking of documents, but also the commissioning of bogus official stamps, including those of other countries, to misclassify carcasses; passing off of inferior beef trimmings as higher-grade meat; cheating of customs officers; and institutionalised tax evasion.
  • (13) This difference was abrogated when the precursors were treated with glycopeptidase F. In the intracellular small chain a difference was observed in the size of carbohydrate chains that were cleavable with endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase H. Sequence analysis of the N-termini of mature intracellular cathepsin D indicated a N-terminal trimming in both large and small chains from both human and transfected hamster cells.
  • (14) Forced four-variable regression equations were used to predict the percentage (chilled carcass weight basis) yield of boneless subprimals at the three fat trim levels as influenced by sex class, frame size, muscle score, and adjusted 12th-rib fat thickness.
  • (15) In the second trial 24 grafts without velours trimming (Cooley II, Meadox), 24 grafts manufactured by a new warp-knitting procedure without velours trimming (Protegraft 2000, B. Braun AG) and 24 identical grafts of B. Braun AG but with gelatine impregnation were evaluated.
  • (16) Strain effects were noted in rate of feed consumption following beak trimming.
  • (17) Serves 4 100g butter, at room temperature 150g flour 50g ground almonds 30g suet 1 egg yolk 50g cooked chestnuts, chopped 5 tbsp chopped fresh thyme Salt and black pepper For the leeks 1kg leeks, trimmed 100g butter Salt and pepper 200ml double cream 1 tsp nutmeg 1 To make the crumble topping, work the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs, then add the ground almonds and suet.
  • (18) The results showed that Kind had a slight color change delta E* = -1.72, Trim demonstrated the most color change delta E* = -13.84, while the remaining resins demonstrated a noticeable change in color due to in vitro aging.
  • (19) 400g cooked or tinned butterbeans 1 tsp ground cumin 10ml lemon juice ¼ clove garlic, peeled and finely minced 1 small handful picked flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 1 tbsp plain flour (gluten-free flour also works fine) 1 tsp salt 1 egg 1 spring onion, trimmed and finely sliced 50g breadcrumbs 100g feta (or other crumbly goat's or sheep's cheese) Put the butterbeans, cumin, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, flour, salt and egg in a food processor and blitz to a coarse paste: you don't want the mix fully pureed, otherwise the burgers will be too wet and will fall apart on the grill.
  • (20) Examples are provided of one-, two- and three-cycle trimmings.