Flick vs Skim - What's the difference?
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A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
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(informal) A motion picture; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
(fencing) A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
(tennis) A powerful underarm volley shot.
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The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
A flitch.
To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
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To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
* Alexander Pope
To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
* Hazlitt
To hasten along with superficial attention.
* I. Watts
To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
to throw an object so it bounces on water (skimming stones )
to ricochet
to read quickly, skipping some detail
to scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
to clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface.
to clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk
(of milk) Having lowered fat content.
As verbs the difference between flick and skim
is that flick is to move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion while skim is to pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.As a noun flick
is a short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.As an adjective skim is
(of milk) having lowered fat content.flick
English
Noun
(en noun)- He removed the speck of dust with a flick of his finger.
- She gave a disdainful flick of her hair and marched out of the room.
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- My all-time favorite flick is "Gone with the Wind."
- Want to go to the flicks tonight?
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- a flick of bacon
Synonyms
* (short, quick movement)'' fillip (''of the finger ) * (cinema) the picturesVerb
(en verb)- flick one's hair
- with a flick of the wrist
- to flick the dirt from boots
- Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.
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Derived terms
* flick knife * flick off * flick the beanskim
English
Verb
(skimm)- Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, / Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
- Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean.
- They skim over a science in a very superficial survey.
- I skimmed the newspaper over breakfast.
- to skim''' milk; to '''skim broth
- to skim cream