shim
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
- A wedge.
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A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
— He — or "Shim" (she/him), as film director John Waters called the actor Divine — was as much a paradoxical as a perverse fellow.
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A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
— Near-synonym: shimstock (uncountable)
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A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
— […] that I was a hermaphrodite, and that things would probably be getting much, much worse as other "parts" of me began to grow manly and I made the full transformation into a "shim."
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A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
— Shims intercept Win32 API calls from legacy applications, as defined by system administrators, and then modify the call before passing the code to Windows for execution.
- A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
- A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
- A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
动词 v.
- To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.
- To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
- To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
- To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.
词源
词源 1
Unknown; from Kent. Originally a piece of iron attached to a plow; sense of “thin piece of wood” from 1723, sense of “thin piece of material used for alignment or support” from 1860.
词源 2
Blend of she + him.
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