skim的意思|skim的解释-里氏词典

skim [skim]

vt. 撇取浮沫, 略读, 掠过

vi. 擦过, 浏览

n. 脱脂乳, 擦过, 表层物

a. 撇去浮沫的

[机] 浮渣, 撇渣

skim
skimmed, skimming

[ noun ]

a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid

<noun.object>

there was a thin skim of oil on the water

reading or glancing through quickly

<noun.communication>

[ verb ]
[ adj ]

used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed

<adj.all>

yogurt made with skim milk

she can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter

Skim \Skim\, a.
Contraction of {Skimming} and {Skimmed}.

{Skim coat}, the final or finishing coat of plaster.

{Skim colter}, a colter for paring off the surface of land.

{Skim milk}, skimmed milk; milk from which the cream has been
taken.

Skim \Skim\ (sk[i^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Skimmed} (sk[i^]md);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Skimming}.] [Cf. Sw. skymma to darken.
[root]158. See {Scum}.]
1. To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or
lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just
beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.

2. To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.

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

Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the
top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the
ocean. --Hazlitt.

4. Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in
order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim
a book or a newspaper.

Skim \Skim\, v. i.
1. To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course;
to glide along near the surface.

Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,
Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the
main. --Pope.

2. To hasten along with superficial attention.

They skim over a science in a very superficial
survey. --I. Watts.

3. To put on the finishing coat of plaster.

Two films this week, Ron Howard's Far And Away and Jim Jarmusch's Night On Earth, skim their plots or characters around the globe as if the friction of reality had never existed. In most other respects the two films are perfect opposites.
With the clock ticking, the company needed another hit and thought it would be Simplesse, an engineered mixture of whipped egg whites and skim milk that had been developed in 1979 by Labatt Brewing Ltd., in London, Ontario.
Investors used to skim past such warnings in their rush to get on the biotech bandwagon.
A Soviet ship that can skim oil on the high seas joined the war against the nation's worst oil spill Wednesday, docking in a town named for the man who bought Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.
The lawsuit, unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court, accuses Northrop Corp. of falsifying test results on parts for nearly 1,800 of the nuclear-tipped missiles, which are launched from bombers and skim the earth toward their targets.
Japanese diplomats in Washington, however, cautioned that a few products, including starch and powdered skim milk, will temporarily be excluded from the liberalization program.
Daffynition Unreported percentage of gambling-casino profits: the wages of skim.
The latest violence began two days after Aoun blockaded private ports militias use to finance their operations, which skim the government otherwise would collect at the five legal harbors on Lebanon's 130-mile coastline.
Its specifications indicate it can skim 200,000 gallons of crude from the high seas each hour.
Young women on weight-reducing diets often stop eating dairy products, though skim milk is as good a provider of calcium as whole milk.
Gains continued to be reported for low-fat and skim milk, while sales of plain whole milk declined.
Urge your children to drink pure fruit juice, skim or low-fat milk _ or water _ instead of soda.
They've had 45 years of watching a privileged Communist elite skim off the cream.
Because the company had only 780 slots to fill, it could skim off the cream of the applicants.
The "quality-protein maize" looks and tastes like common corn but is nearly as good a protein source as skim milk, the committee said.
The idea of mixing skim milk and vegetable fats isn't new, but marketing the product as a cholesterol-free food is, says Pat Arcadipane, Jersey Farms's president and a former Citibank executive.
Under the new formula, handlers would pay less for the butterfat, but would increase the value of skim milk.
Police did not say how the money collectors managed to skim off coins from the machines without drawing the attention of the city's accountants.
"In 1991, milk and dairy product prices will fall sharply from a year earlier," according to a report this week by the department's Economic Research Service. "Significant surpluses of both cream and skim milk are expected.
Scout helicopters skim along the horizon like angry hornets buzzing from their nest to respond to intruders.
We skim down another valley.
Though Ashland, which is paying for the cleanup operation, has hired a hazardous waste team to skim oil off the water's surface, the results have been minimal.

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