'Skim' definitions:

Definition of 'skim'

From: WordNet
adjective
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: skim, skimmed]
noun
A thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; "there was a thin skim of oil on the water"
noun
Reading or glancing through quickly [syn: skim, skimming]
verb
Travel on the surface of water [syn: plane, skim]
verb
Move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of [syn: skim over, skim]
verb
Examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down]
verb
Cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond" [syn: skim, skip, skitter]
verb
Coat (a liquid) with a layer
verb
Remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of milk" [syn: skim, skim off, cream off, cream]
verb
Read superficially [syn: skim, skim over]

Definition of 'Skim'

From: GCIDE
  • Skim \Skim\, v. i.
  • 1. To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface. [1913 Webster]
  • Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To hasten along with superficial attention. [1913 Webster]
  • They skim over a science in a very superficial survey. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To put on the finishing coat of plaster. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Skim'

From: GCIDE
  • Skim \Skim\ (sk[i^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skimmed (sk[i^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Skimming.] [Cf. Sw. skymma to darken. [root]158. See Scum.]
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of. [1913 Webster]
  • Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean. --Hazlitt. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Skim'

From: GCIDE
  • Skim \Skim\, a. Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed. [1913 Webster]
  • Skim coat, the final or finishing coat of plaster.
  • Skim colter, a colter for paring off the surface of land.
  • Skim milk, skimmed milk; milk from which the cream has been taken. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'skim'

From: Moby Thesaurus