Word Finder - skimmed

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To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.

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To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.

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To hasten along with superficial attention.

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To put on a finishing coat of plaster.

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To throw an object so it bounces on water (skimming stones)

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To ricochet

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To read quickly, skipping some detail

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I skimmed the newspaper over breakfast.

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To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface

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To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface.

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to skim milk; to skim broth

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To clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk

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to skim cream

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To steal money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.

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To surreptitiously scan a payment card in order to obtain its information for fraudulent purposes.

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To become coated over.

Her eyes skimmed over him.

Her voice, so soft it skimmed his skin, threatened to ensnare him.

However, skimmed milk is n't suitable for children under five years old.

Serve " upside down " with custard made with skimmed milk and sweetened with artificial sweetened with artificial sweetener.

There are different types of organic milk available including whole milk, skimmed milk and flavored milks.

In India, the fat skimmed from the top of the broth was supposed to help children avoid misfortune.

It was skimmed off and found to be an exquisite perfume.

I quickly skimmed through the media to be reminded that I could boot from the rescue floppy.

The joints have had scrim tape applied and the wall is now ready to be skimmed.

These have been skimmed lightly in the lathe with each wheel mounted on a tapered arbor.

It is what is left out or skimmed over that causes major concern.

The top 23 drivers - from all classes, remember - would be skimmed off to go into the final.

Serve " upside down " with custard made with skimmed milk and sweetened with artificial sweetener.

The look goes back to the Greeks and Romans, who found that a loose dress, lightly bound under the breasts, was comfortable, easy to wear and skimmed all bodies in an eye-catching manner.

Most letters are skimmed and not read, so be brief.

Nutritional Information A bowl of porridge with skimmed or semi skimmed milk provides a low fat, high carbohydrate breakfast or snack.

Women wore uplift bras and girdles that skimmed their waists and hips.

The flapper look consisted of a loose, shapeless shift dress that skimmed the body and ended at the knees - or, for the especially daring, slightly above the knees.

Once you've skimmed the city's tourist surface, spend some time getting to know the city.

There is more flexibility with food, allowing the dieter to consume three Cambridge diet meals with a choice of one protein food, vegetables and skimmed milk.

Simply tap the surface with a hammer, then use a bolster chisel to get behind the skimmed plaster.

Butter in the EEC is 270% of the world market price; skimmed milk powder 330 %; and wheat around 150% .

The less robust species, such as Sphacelaria scoparia, which do not adhere well to paper, may be made to do so by brushing them over either with milk carefully skimmed, or with a liquid formed by placing isinglass (4 oz.) and water (11 oz.) in a wide-mouthed bottle, and the bottle in a small glue-pot or saucepan containing cold water, heating until solution is effected, and then adding i oz.

His touch turned electric, and his magic skimmed her blood.

Salt then conjured a superb 20-yard volley that skimmed the crossbar.

For a reduced fat version use light condensed milk, which is made using skimmed milk.

His hands skimmed her arms to circle her and rest at the small of her back.

Her eyes skimmed over both, and she hardened herself to the cries of the hurt as she continued forward.

It may be skimmed off the underlye and placed direct in the frames for solidification; but that is a practice scarcely at all followed, the addition of resin soap in the pan and the subsequent " crutching in " of silicate of soda and adulterant mixings being features common to the manufacture.

The pond had in the meanwhile skimmed over in the shadiest and shallowest coves, some days or even weeks before the general freezing.

Her eyes skimmed his perfect, buff body before the pain in her hand finally registered.

The zinc and some lead are oxidized; part of the zinc passes off with the fumes, part is dissolved by the litharge, forming a melted mixture which is skimmed off and reduced in a blast-furnace or a reverberatory smelting furnace.

The latter are circular or rectangular vessels, holding from 500 to 1500 gallons each, according to the capacity of the factory, and fitted with steam coils at the bottom and skimming troughs at the top. In them the syrup is quickly brought up to the boil and skimmed for about five minutes, when it is run off to the service tanks of the vacuum pans.

The crude phosphorus is purified by melting under water and then filtering through animal black and afterwards through chamois leather, or by treating it, when molten, with chromic acid or a mixture of potassium bichromate and sulphuric acid; this causes the impurities to rise to the surface as a scum which can be skimmed off.

A small, round object twice the size of a dinner plate appeared from the chasm and skimmed over several feet of grass to reach them.

Though the woodchoppers have laid bare first this shore and then that, and the Irish have built their sties by it, and the railroad has infringed on its border, and the ice-men have skimmed it once, it is itself unchanged, the same water which my youthful eyes fell on; all the change is in me.

A yellowish powdery mixture of zinc and lead oxides collects on the lead; it is skimmed off and sold as paint.

The slag is then poured and skimmed, the blast turned on and converter retilted.