Him vs Shim - What's the difference?
him | shim |
# With dative effect or as an indirect object.
#* '1897' (578 m)'', (Bram Stoker), ''Dracula :
# Following a preposition.
#* '1813' (553 m)'', (Jane Austen), ''Pride and Prejudice :
# With accusative effect or as a direct object.
#* '1853' (565 m)'', (Charles Dickens), ''Bleak House :
* '1526' (465 m)'', (William Tyndale), trans. ''Bible , Acts XII:
* '1765' (538 m)'',
With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after (be), or following a preposition.
* 'c. 1616' (493 m)'', (William Shakespeare), ''Macbeth , First Folio 1623, V.10:
* '2003' (611 m)'', Claire Cozens, ''The Guardian , 11 Jun 2003:
A wedge.
A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
(computing) A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery
To adjust something by using shims
(informal, often, derogatory) a person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits, also called a he-she; transsexual.
* 1998 , Hobart Student Association, The Seneca review:
* 1995 , The Advocate - May 30, 1995 - Page 11:
(informal, often, derogatory) hermaphrodite.
As a pronoun him
is A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.As a noun shim is
a wedge.As a verb shim is
to fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery.him
English
(wikipedia him)Pronoun
- ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.
- She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.
- ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’
- Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym' in royall apparell, and set ' hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.
- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
- He sees his little lot the lot of all;
- [...]
- But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,
- Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
- Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him , that first cries hold, enough.
- Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him .
See also
(English personal pronouns)See also
* he * his * her * themStatistics
*shim
English
Etymology 1
Originally a piece of iron attached to a plow; sense of “thin piece of wood” from 1723, sense of “thin piece of material used for alignment or support” from 1860.Noun
(en noun)Verb
Etymology 2
.Noun
(en noun)- He — or "Shim " (she/him), as film director John Waters called the actor Divine — was as much a paradoxical as a perverse fellow.
- "We call him shim — short for 'she-him.'