skim

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cursory reading, skipping the details. countable,uncountable
    — For a first quick appreciation of the approach, we recommend a fast reading of Chapter 1, then a skim through the figures of the next two chapters — glancing at the definitions of key concepts that appear below the figures in Chapters 2 and 3.
  2. Skim milk. countable,informal,uncountable
    — Two percent milk has only a fraction less fat than whole milk, so unless you are feeding a child or someone whose diet requires whole milk, skim is best.
  3. The act of skimming. countable,uncountable
    — Then you could jump 150 years and enjoy a skim across the Solent in Britain's remarkable Hovercraft.
  4. That which is skimmed off. countable,uncountable
  5. Theft of money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection. countable,uncountable
    — It's a hustle, but it keeps me busy. I can take in three to three-fifty a week, more with skims.
动词 v.
  1. To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface. intransitive
    — Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, / Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
  2. To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of. transitive
    — Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean.
  3. To hasten along with superficial attention.
    — They skim over a science in a very night superficial survey.
  4. To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
    — Ceilings are lined with fibrous asbestos, the internal plastering being reduced to skimming alone.
  5. To throw an object so it bounces on water. transitive
    — skimming stones
  6. To ricochet. intransitive
  7. To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail. transitive
    — (through)
  8. To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface transitive
  9. To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface. transitive
    — to skim milk
  10. To clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk. transitive
    — to skim cream
  11. To steal money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
    — Obviously, the longer cash sits around before being recorded, the more likely it is that a skimming fraud will occur.
  12. To surreptitiously scan a payment card in order to obtain its information for fraudulent purposes.
  13. To become coated over. intransitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Having lowered fat content. not-comparable

词形变化

skims present,singular,third-person skimming participle,present skimmed participle,past skimmed past skims plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cream-skim overskim reskim semi-skimmed skimboard skimboarding skimmability skimmable skimmed milk skimmer skimmy skim off skim over skim-read skim through skim coat skim-coat skim pit

词源

词源 1
From Middle English skemen, skymen, variants of scumen, from Old French escumer (“to remove scum”), from escume (“froth, foam”), from Frankish *skūm (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *skew- (“to cover, conceal”). See scum.
词源 2
From Middle English skemen, skymen, variants of scumen, from Old French escumer (“to remove scum”), from escume (“froth, foam”), from Frankish *skūm (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *skew- (“to cover, conceal”). See scum.
词源 3
From Middle English skemen, skymen, variants of scumen, from Old French escumer (“to remove scum”), from escume (“froth, foam”), from Frankish *skūm (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *skew- (“to cover, conceal”). See scum.
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