Ripple vs Skim - What's the difference?
ripple | skim |
A moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid.
A sound similar to that of undulating water.
A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
(electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
To propagate like a moving wave.
* 2008 , Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns , page 65:
To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
(by extension) To scratch or tear.
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 ripple and skim
is that ripple is to move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate while skim is to pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.As a noun ripple
is a moving disturbance or undulation in the surface of a liquid.As an adjective skim is
(of milk) having lowered fat content.ripple
English
Noun
(en noun)- I dropped a small stone into the pond and watched the ripples .
- I enjoy fudge ripple''' ice cream, but I especially like to dig through the carton to get at the '''ripple part and eat only that.
Verb
- These problems were complicated by a foreign exchange crunch which rippled through the economy in 1961-1962, [...].
- (Holland)
Anagrams
*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