Glissade vs Skim - What's the difference?
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A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps ().
(ballet) A gliding step beginning and ending in a demi-).
A move in some dances such as the galop ().
(fencing) A fencing move that may disarm the opponent ().
To perform a glissade.
*{{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=5 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.
Glissade is a related term of skim.
As verbs the difference between glissade and skim
is that glissade is to perform a glissade while skim is to pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.As a noun glissade
is a sliding, as down a snow slope in the alps ().As an adjective skim is
(of milk) having lowered fat content.glissade
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(glissad)citation, passage=Flinging himself on hands and knees he dragged the girl down with him. As he did so two of her companions came sliding down to their assistance, and the four glissaded back to the deckhouse as the following roll began.}}
References
* ----skim
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