Hover vs Skim - What's the difference?
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To float in the air.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To linger in one place.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
To waver, or be uncertain.
(computing) To place the cursor over a hyperlink or icon without clicking.
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.
Hover is a related term of skim.
As verbs the difference between hover and skim
is that hover is to float in the air while skim is to pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.As a noun hover
is a cover; a shelter; a protection.As an adjective skim is
(of milk) having lowered fat content.hover
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) hoveren (frequentative of hove).Verb
(en verb)Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
- The neighborhood, to our ears, seemed haunted by approaching footsteps; and what between the dead body of the captain on the parlor floor, and the thought of that detestable blind beggar hovering near at hand, and ready to return, there were moments when, as the saying goes, I jumped in my skin for terror.
Derived terms
* * hoverboat * hoverbike * hovercar * hoverchair * hovercraftEtymology 2
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