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How to pronounce skim in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms skimmed


yogurt made with skim milk.
she can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter.
Type Words
Synonyms glance over, rake, run down, scan
Type of examine, see
Derivation skimming
Type Words
Synonyms skim over
Type of read
Derivation skimmer, skimming
Type Words
Synonyms skimming
Type of reading
Type Words
Synonyms skim over
Type of touch
Type Words
Synonyms skip, skitter
Type of throw
Type Words
Synonyms plane
Type of glide
Has types aquaplane
Type Words
Synonyms cream, cream off, skim off
Type of remove, take, take away, withdraw
Derivation skimmer, skimming


skim cream from the surface of milk.
Type Words
Type of cover, covering, natural covering


there was a thin skim of oil on the water.
Type Words
Type of coat, surface

Examples of skim

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However, these features only skim the surface of what makes a relationship work.
From the sciencedaily.com
Johanna drinks skim milk, and has two blueberry waffles and a side of pineapple.
From the abcnews.go.com
In a large bowl, combine soup, skim milk, pimento, green peas, tuna and noodles.
From the kentucky.com
Suggestions include using whole-milk instead of part-skim cheeses in casseroles.
From the dallasnews.com
Pour off the juices if using a separator, or skim fat into a separate container.
From the omaha.com
Let stand until grease rises to the surface, about 10 minutes, then skim it off.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Pale Arctic terns and endangered Kittlitz's Murrelets skim the etched shoreline.
From the time.com
Small charter boats carrying Coast Guard officers and BP officials skim the bay.
From the time.com
It's been years since many of us replaced whole milk with lowfat, and then skim.
From the newsobserver.com
More examples
  • 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"
  • Plane: travel on the surface of water
  • Reading or glancing through quickly
  • Skim over: move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of
  • Scan: examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
  • Cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"
  • The Smart Common Input Method platform (SCIM) is an input method (IM) platform containing support for more than thirty languages (CJK and many European languages) for POSIX-style operating systems including Linux and BSD.
  • Skim is a Canadian graphic novel written by Mariko Tamaki and drawn by Jillian Tamaki. Set in 1993, in a Catholic girls high school, it is about an outsider girl called Skim.
  • Skim is an open-source PDF reader. It is notably the first free PDF reader for Mac OS X. It is written in Objective-C, and uses Cocoa APIs. It is released under a BSD license. It is also cited as being able to help annotate and read scientific papers.