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Definition of 'skim'English
Verb
( skimm)
To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
* Alexander Pope
- Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, / Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
* Hazlitt
- Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean.
To hasten along with superficial attention.
* I. Watts
- They skim over a science in a very superficial survey.
To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
to throw an object so it bounces on water (skimming stones )
to ricochet
to read quickly, skipping some detail
- I skimmed the newspaper over breakfast.
to scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
to clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface.
- to skim''' milk; to '''skim broth
to clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk
- to skim cream
Derived terms
* skim through
* skim over
* skim off
* skimmed milk
* skimmer
* semi-skimmed
Adjective
(-)
(of milk) Having lowered fat content.
Derived terms
* skim milk
Similar to 'skim'swim, swam, swum, seem, seam, sum, scum, som, sham, shim, scam, sem, sam, saum, sim, shawm, soum, siam, sawm, saim, sweam, soam, scomm
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