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trim 1, verb (oh)



[T]
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1 ?cut?
2 ?reduce?
3 ?decorate?
4 ?sail?
Phrasal verbs
trim something ¡û¡ú back
trim down
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[Language: Old English; Origin: trymian, trymman 'to strengthen, arrange', from trum 'strong, firm']
?CUT?
to make something look neater by cutting small pieces off it
::Pete was trimming the lawn around the roses.
::I have my hair trimmed every six weeks.
trim sth away/off
::Trim away any excess glue with a knife.
?REDUCE?
to reduce a number, amount, or the size of something
::We need to trim costs by ¡ê500m.
::The bill would trim the number of immigrants to the US.
trim sth from/off sth
::The company trimmed ¡ê46,000 from its advertising budget.
?DECORATE?
[usually passive] to decorate something, especially clothes, by adding things that look pretty
trim sth with sth
::a dress trimmed with lace
::At Christmas, the whole family helps trim the tree.
?SAIL?
to move the sails of a boat in order to go faster
trim back [trim sth ¡û¡ú back] phr v
to make something shorter or smaller
::Trim the stems back carefully.
::Most airlines have trimmed back their operations.
trim down phr v
to lose weight deliberately
::Anne has trimmed down from 22 stone to 18.

palmitic acid (medicine)


palmitic acid
<biochemistry> One of the most widely distributed of fatty acids.

The palmitoyl residue is one of the common acyl residues of membrane phospholipids. It is also found as a thioester attached to cystein residues on some membrane proteins. The proteins so modified are often transmembrane proteins and the modified residue is on the cytoplasmic surface of the membrane.

The specificity of the transferase for the acyl residue is not high and both stearoyl and oleoyl residues can replace the palmitoyl residue.

Compare: myristoylation.