Word Meanings - SKIM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To clear 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. 2. To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream. 3. To pass near the surface of; to brush

Additional info about word: SKIM

1. To clear 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. 2. To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream. 3. To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of. Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean. Hazlitt. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SKIM)

• Graze
• Shave
• scrape
• skim
• abrade
• shear

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SKIM)

• Lubricate
• polish
• levigate
• dig
• indent
• wound

Related words: (words related to SKIM)

• SHEAR
  To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4. (more info) shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• SHEARS
  The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe. Rotary shears. See under Rotary. (more info) 1. A cutting instrument. Specifically: An instrument consisting
• INDENTMENT
  Indenture.
• SHEARBILL
  The black skimmer. See Skimmer.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• SHEARN
  Dung; excrement. Holland.
• INDENTEDLY
  With indentations.
• INDENTURE
  A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master.
• INDENTED
  Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary. 4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant. (more info) 1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like
• INDENTION
  See 4
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• SHEARWATER
  Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater , the dusky shearwater , and the greater shearwater , are well-known species
• WOUNDY
  Excessive. Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange.
• WOUNDLESS
  Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable. "Knights whose woundless armor rusts." Spenser. may miss our name, And hit the woundless air. Shak.
• SHEARMAN
  One whose occupation is to shear cloth.
• SHAVER
  A tool or machine for shaving. A note shaver, a person who buys (more info) 1. One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave. 2. One who is close in bargains; a sharper. Swift. 3. One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer. By these shavers the
• WOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.
• SHEARLING
  A sheep but once sheared.
• GRAZE
  Etym: 1. To feed or supply with grass; to furnish pasture for. A field or two to graze his cows. Swift. 2. To feed on; to eat ; to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse. The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead. Pope. 3. To tend
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• 'SWOUNDS
  An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• SWOUND
  See LONGFELLOW