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General dictionaries General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. skim: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. skim: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  3. skim: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  4. Skim: Wiktionary [home, info]
  5. skim: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  6. skim: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  7. skim: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  8. skim: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  9. skim: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  10. skim: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  11. skim: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  12. Skim: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  13. skim: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  14. Skim: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. skim: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. skim: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. Skim: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. skim: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. skim: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  20. skim: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  21. skim: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  22. skim: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  23. skim: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. skim: Linda's Culinary Dictionary [home, info]
  2. skim: Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary [home, info]
  3. skim: Cook's Thesaurus [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Skim: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
  2. skim: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Skim: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  2. skim: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SKIM: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  2. skim: Idioms [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SKIM: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]

Quick definitions (skim)

noun:  reading or glancing through quickly
noun:  a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid ("There was a thin skim of oil on the water")
verb:  read superficially
verb:  remove from the surface ("Skim cream from the surface of milk")
verb:  coat (a liquid) with a layer
verb:  cause to skip over a surface
verb:  examine hastily
verb:  move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of
verb:  travel on the surface of water
adjective:  used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed ("Yogurt made with skim milk")

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Phrases that include skim:   skim over, skim sweeping, skim filter

Words similar to skim:   cream, plane, rake, scan, skimmed, skimming, skip, skitter, cream off, glance over, hydroplane, run down, skim off, skim over, more...


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