Found 3 items, similar to skim.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: skim meluncur, menyendoki
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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream. [1913 Webster] 3. To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of. [1913 Webster] Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Skim \Skim\, v. i. 1. To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface. [1913 Webster] Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. To hasten along with superficial attention. [1913 Webster] They skim over a science in a very superficial survey. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster] 3. To put on the finishing coat of plaster. [1913 Webster]