Found 3 items, similar to skim.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: skim
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: skim
skim
v 1: travel on the surface of water [syn:
plane]
2: move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of [syn:
skim over
]
3: examine hastily;
“She scanned the newspaper headlines while
waiting for the taxi” [syn:
scan,
rake,
glance over,
run down]
4: cause to skip over a surface;
“Skip a stone across the pond”
[syn:
skip,
skitter]
5: coat (a liquid) with a layer
6: remove from the surface;
“skim cream from the surface of
milk” [syn:
skim off,
cream off,
cream]
7: read superficially [syn:
skim over]
[also:
skimming,
skimmed]
skim
n 1: a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid;
“there was a
thin skim of oil on the water”
2: reading or glancing through quickly [syn:
skimming]
[also:
skimming,
skimmed]
skim
adj : used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been
removed;
“yogurt made with skim milk”;
“she can drink
skimmed milk but should avoid butter” [syn:
skimmed]
[also:
skimming,
skimmed]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Skim
Skim
\Skim\, a.
Contraction of
Skimming and
Skimmed.
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Skim coat, the final or finishing coat of plaster.
Skim colter, a colter for paring off the surface of land.
Skim milk, skimmed milk; milk from which the cream has been
taken.
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Skim
\Skim\ (sk[i^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Skimmed (sk[i^]md);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Skimming.] [Cf. Sw. skymma to darken.
[root]158. See
Scum.]
1. To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or
lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just
beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.
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2. To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.
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3. To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to
glide swiftly along the surface of.
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Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the
top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the
ocean. --Hazlitt.
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4. Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in
order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim
a book or a newspaper.
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Skim
\Skim\, v. i.
1. To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course;
to glide along near the surface.
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Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,
Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the
main. --Pope.
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2. To hasten along with superficial attention.
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They skim over a science in a very superficial
survey. --I. Watts.
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3. To put on the finishing coat of plaster.
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