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Meaning of skim

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  skim
      adj 1: used of milk and milk products from which the cream has
             been removed; "yogurt made with skim milk"; "she can
             drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter" [syn: {skim},
             {skimmed}]
      n 1: a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; "there was a
           thin skim of oil on the water"
      2: reading or glancing through quickly [syn: {skim}, {skimming}]
      v 1: travel on the surface of water [syn: {plane}, {skim}]
      2: move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of [syn:
         {skim over}, {skim}]
      3: examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while
         waiting for the taxi" [syn: {scan}, {skim}, {rake}, {glance
         over}, {run down}]
      4: cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"
         [syn: {skim}, {skip}, {skitter}]
      5: coat (a liquid) with a layer
      6: remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of
         milk" [syn: {skim}, {skim off}, {cream off}, {cream}]
      7: read superficially [syn: {skim}, {skim over}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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