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Noun skimming has 4 senses
- skimming - the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid
--1 is a kind of removal, remotion
- skim, skimming - reading or glancing through quickly
--2 is a kind of reading
- skimming - failure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on it
--3 is a kind of larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing
- grazing, shaving, skimming - the act of brushing against while passing
--4 is a kind of touch, touching
Verb skim has 7 senses
- plane, skim - travel on the surface of water
--1 is one way to glide
Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP
- skim over, skim - move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of
--2 is one way to touch
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down - examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
--3 is one way to examine, see
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- skim, skip, skitter - cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"
--4 is one way to throw
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- skim - coat (a liquid) with a layer
--5 is one way to coat, surface
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- skim, skim off, cream off, cream - remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of milk"
--6 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- skim, skim over - read superficially
--7 is one way to read
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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