Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Verbit
- (intransitive) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
- (transitive) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
- To hasten along with superficial attention.
- To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
- (transitive) to throw an object so it bounces on water (skimming stones)
- (intransitive) to ricochet
- (transitive) to read quickly, skipping some detail
- (transitive) to scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
- (transitive) 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 clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk
Adjektiivit
Esimerkit
- Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, / Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
- Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean.
- They skim over a science in a very superficial survey.
- I skimmed the newspaper over breakfast.
- to skim milk; to skim broth
- to skim cream
- The milker will skim (off) the cream from milk.
- The skimmer is one type of sea birds which flies along (skims over) water looking for food.
- I have just skimmed through this article.
- I have just skimmed over this article.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | skimmed |
| Imperfekti | skimmed |
| Partisiipin preesens | skimming |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | skims |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | skimmeth (vanhahtava) |