skim

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1. skim - Noun

2. skim - Adjective

3. skim - Verb

4. skim - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.

To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.

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.

To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.

To put on the finishing coat of plaster.

Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.

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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. Henry Ward Beecher

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air. Alexander Pope

The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak. Robert A. Heinlein

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music. Shirley Manson

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. American Proverb

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