Dictionary Definition
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]
Noun
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]
Verb
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]
5 coat (a liquid) with a layer
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪm
Verb
Derived terms
Translations
to throw an object so it bounces on water
- Finnish: heittää leipää, heittää leipiä
- French: faire des ricochets
to ricochet
- Arabic:
- Danish: rikochettere
- Dutch: afketsen
- Finnish: kimmota
- French: ricocher
- German: abprallen
- Greek: εξοστρακίζομαι (eksostrakizomai)
- Hungarian: visszapattan
- Italian: rimbalzare
- Japanese: 飛びはねる (ひびはねる, hibihaneru)
- Portuguese: ricochetear
- Romanian: a ricoşa
- Russian: рикошетировать (rikošetirovat')
- Spanish: rebotar
- Swedish: rikoschettera, studsa
- Turkish: sekmek
to read quickly, skipping some detail
- Czech: listovat
- Danish: skimme
- Dutch: doorbladeren
- Finnish: lukea pintapuolisesti, lukaista, silmäillä
- French: feuilleter
- German: überfliegen
- Italian: scorrere
- Japanese: ざっと読む (ざっとよむ, zattoyomu)
- Mandarin: (liúlǎn)
- Norwegian: skumlese
- Portuguese: ler superficialmente, ler em diagonal
- Romanian: a răsfoi
- Spanish: hojear, leer por encima
- Swedish: skumma, ögna igenom
to scrape off; to remove (something) from a
surface
- Finnish: kuoria
- ttbc Persian: (kaf gīrī)
Adjective
- In the context of "of milk": having lowered fat content
Derived terms
Translations
- Finnish: kuorittu
Extensive Definition
Skim may refer to:
- Skimming (reading), a high speed reading process
- Skimboarding, a sport which involves riding a board on wet sand or shallow water
- Skimming (casinos), a practice in which organized crime took part of the take collected by casinos in Las Vegas
Skim may also refer to:
- Skim milk, a variety of milk with little to no fat
- Skimming (fraud), a type of credit card fraud
- Snowmobile skipping, also known as skimming, the practice of operating snowmobiles on water
- Skim (software), an open source PDF reader and note-taker for Mac OS X
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
avalanche, ball the jack,
barrel, blink, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, browse, brush, brush by, carefully ignore,
caress, carom, clip, coast, cold-shoulder, come in
contact, contact,
cream, cut a corner, cut
along, cut corners, dap,
dart, dip into, dodge, drift, examine cursorily, fleet, flit, float, flow, fly, fly low, foot, fudge, ghost, give the once-over,
glance, glance at, glance
over, glance through, glide, glissade, go fast, graze, highball, hit, ice-skate, impinge, kiss, make knots, nip, nudge, osculate, outstrip the wind,
page through, pass over, pass over lightly, plow the deep, pour it
on, remove, ricochet, ride, ride the sea, rip, roller-skate, rub, run, run over, run through, sail, scamp, scan, scorch, scrape, scratch the surface,
scud, separate, shave, shoot, sideslip, sideswipe, sizzle, skate, skateboard, ski, skid, skim over, skim the surface,
skimp, skip, skip over, skirt, sled, sleigh, slidder, slide, slide down, slight, slip, slip through, slither, slubber over, slur, slur over, soar, speed, squeak by, storm along,
sweep, take off, tear, tear along, thumb over, thumb
through, thunder along, toboggan, touch, touch lightly, touch upon,
touch upon lightly, walk the waters, whisk, whiz, zing, zip, zip through, zoom