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Skate vs Skim - What's the difference?

skate | skim |

As verbs the difference between skate and skim

is that skate is to move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates while skim is to pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.

As a noun skate

is a runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.

As an adjective skim is

having lowered fat content.

skate

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
  • abbreviated form of ice skate or roller skate
  • The act of skateboarding
  • There's time for a quick skate before dinner.
  • The act of roller skating or ice skating
  • The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.

    Verb

    (skat)
  • To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
  • To skateboard
  • Derived terms
    * get one's skates on * roller-skate * skateboard * skate on thin ice * skatepark * skater

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) skata.

    Noun

    (wikipedia skate) (en noun)
  • A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays]]) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding , and wide [[fin#Noun, fins attached to a flat body.
  • skim

    English

    Verb

    (skimm)
  • To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, / Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
  • To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
  • * Hazlitt
  • Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean.
  • To hasten along with superficial attention.
  • * I. Watts
  • They skim over a science in a very superficial survey.
  • 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
  • I skimmed the newspaper over breakfast.
  • 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 skim''' milk; to '''skim broth
  • to clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk
  • to skim cream

    Derived terms

    * skim through * skim over * skim off * skimmed milk * skimmer * semi-skimmed

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of milk) Having lowered fat content.
  • Derived terms

    * skim milk