What's the difference between tosh and trim?

Tosh


Definition:

  • (a.) Neat; trim.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After removal of the Z group by catalytic hydrogenation and acetylation Ac-Arg(p-TosH)-NHMe was obtained.
  • (2) Peter Tosh Founded the Wailers with Marley and Bunny Wailer in 1962, but fell out and left embittered in 1974.
  • (3) The Treasury has stopped trying to blame the eurozone for the state of the economy, which is just as well since that was tosh.
  • (4) Or, to put it more straightforwardly: most of what is in the Bible is complete tosh.
  • (5) Unfortunately, Julian's tape ends there and as £20 seems an awful lot to charge for this tosh we're including 100 pages of WikiLeaks documents you've already read before.
  • (6) Photograph: Alamy Some of this may have been tosh – we don’t wave flags because a politician advises us to, but do it quite naturally for sporting events and the like – but at least it was consistent tosh.
  • (7) I took them and bolted them on to high-end meta-tosh.” His fellow researcher was the youthful Peter Bazalgette, who ended up as chair of the UK arm of Endemol Productions, and who made 1990s lifestyle shows such as Changing Rooms and Ground Force.
  • (8) Tim Harford of the BBC Radio 4 programme More or Less tries to keep his head above the sea of tosh.
  • (9) Daniel Tosh continues to broadcast in the States, unbowed by the row that greeted his unpleasant response to a female heckler (“Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got raped by, like, five guys right now?”).
  • (10) He admits it has been the most difficult aspect of his job, but it has not deterred him from taking the government to task on issues including underperforming academy trusts and, most recently, plans to expand grammar schools to benefit the poor, which he dismissed as “palpable tosh and nonsense” .
  • (11) If they want to sit down and argue with me, some of them are talking out their backsides, a load of tosh and I'm not accepting it.
  • (12) CBR just hiked interest rates by 150bp - The military actions in Crimea are not without significant costs forRussua March 3, 2014 Katie Martin (@katie_martin_FX) Tim Ash, Standard Bank: "Complete tosh to think that all this aggressive action by Moscow will have no effect on the Russian economy" March 3, 2014 9.03am GMT Our Ukraine Liveblog My colleague Haroon Siddique is live-blogging the Ukraine crisis in detail again this morning, here: Ukraine crisis: ‘Russia in control of Crimea’ - live updates Russia has ‘complete operational control’ - US official ‘Russian armoured vehicles lining up across border’ Lavrov says China’s views coincide with Russia’s 8.53am GMT The cost of insuring Russia’s government debt against default has jumped to a nine-month high following Putin’s incursion into Crimea, and Russian bonds have also dropped in value.
  • (13) If you are used to being able to just make up any old tosh and have your marks eagerly repeat it with bells on, it no doubt becomes habit forming.
  • (14) It started in earnest in 2012, when comedian Daniel Tosh was accused of suggesting it would be funny if a female member of the audience was gang raped there and then.
  • (15) When Daniel Tosh was told by a female punter that "rape jokes are never funny" he asked the audience, "Wouldn't it be funny if that girl got raped by, like, five guys right now?
  • (16) He added: “The argument that grammar schools create social mobility is, in the words of the Ofsted chief inspector, ‘tosh and nonsense’,” he added.
  • (17) Ac-Arg(HCl)-NHMe was prepared by chromatography of the NG-TosH derivative on Dowex 44 (in Cl- form).
  • (18) "Some are talking out of their backsides, a load of tosh," he said.
  • (19) The New York Times critic wrote, "Peck plays with considerable skill, also avoiding in his acting the romantic tosh of the writing."
  • (20) All accounts of its heyday in the early-60s give the impression of Dodd's Brentford Road base being a kind of West Indian Stella Street: Lee Perry recording Delroy Wilson, Peter Tosh introducing Leonard Dillon of the Ethiopians, and Horace Andy queuing for a Sunday morning audition, all while Dodd was helping to piece together the Skatalites.

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.