shim

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wedge.
  2. A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite. derogatory,informal,often
    — He — or "Shim" (she/him), as film director John Waters called the actor Divine — was as much a paradoxical as a perverse fellow.
  3. A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
    — Near-synonym: shimstock (uncountable)
  4. A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite. derogatory,informal,often
    — […] 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."
  5. 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.
  6. A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
  7. A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
  8. A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
动词 v.
  1. To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims. ambitransitive
  2. To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
  3. To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes. transitive
  4. To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim. ambitransitive

词形变化

shims plural shims present,singular,third-person shimming participle,present shimmed participle,past shimmed past shims plural

词汇关系

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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