Usually means: Read quickly to grasp essentials.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word Skim:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. skim: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. skim, skim: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. skim: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. skim: Collins English Dictionary
  5. skim: Vocabulary.com
  6. Skim, skim: Wordnik
  7. skim: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. skim: Wiktionary
  9. skim: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. skim: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. skim: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. skim: Dictionary.com
  13. skim: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. skim: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Skim (comics), Skim (disambiguation), Skim (graphic novel), Skim (software), Skim: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Skim: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. skim: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. skim: Rhymezone
  19. Skim: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. skim: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. skim: Free Dictionary
  22. skim: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. skim: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. skim: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. skim: Cook's Thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. skim: Legal dictionary
  2. skim: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Skim: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Skim: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. skim: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SKIM: Acronym Finder
  2. skim: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. skim, skim: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. skim: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (skim)

verb:  (intransitive) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
verb:  (transitive) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
verb:  To hasten along with superficial attention.
verb:  To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
verb:  (transitive) To throw an object so it bounces on water.
verb:  (intransitive) To ricochet.
verb:  (transitive) To read quickly, skipping some detail.
verb:  (transitive) To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk.
verb:  To steal money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
verb:  To surreptitiously scan a payment card in order to obtain its information for fraudulent purposes.
verb:  (intransitive) To become coated over.
adjective:  (of milk) Having lowered fat content.
noun:  A cursory reading, skipping the details.
noun:  (informal) Skim milk.
noun:  The act of skimming.
noun:  That which is skimmed off.
noun:  Theft of money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.

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