strim

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English

Etymology

Back-formation from strimmer, originally a trademark.

Pronunciation

Verb

strim (third-person singular simple present strims, present participle strimming, simple past and past participle strimmed)

  1. (British) To cut using a strimmer/string trimmer.
    • 2023 January 22, Jane Dalton, “Developers ‘clearing wildlife habitats without approval to win planning permission’”, in The Independent‎, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-22:
      Videos showed a badger entering a sett less than two metres from where the contractors had been using petrol hedge-trimmers to strim brambles, the resident said.

Anagrams

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English stream, from Middle English streem, strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic *straum, from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -im
  • Hyphenation: strim

Noun

strim (Jawi spelling ستريم)

  1. (computing) A stream (source or repository of data).

Compounds

Verb

strim (Jawi spelling ستريم, active menstrim or mengestrim, 3rd person passive distrim)

  1. (transitive) To stream:
    1. (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.
      Strim siri ini sekarang di Netflix.
      Stream this series now on Netflix.
    2. (Internet) To livestream.
      Dia kerap menstrim permainan ini di YouTube.
      He/She often streams this game on YouTube.

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