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Here’s the ELI5.
Imagine there’s a set of lockers in a school.
When a student leaves the school or changes lockers they remove the label on the locker but don’t empty it.
A TRIM, however, means that they not only remove the label from the locker by also clean out its contents.
Not quite; the contents all go in a bag labeled “trash” — someone still has to remove it from the locker.
Good point.