Skate vs Skim - What's the difference?
skate | skim |
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
The act of roller skating or ice skating
To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
To skateboard
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.
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 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
.Noun
(en noun)- There's time for a quick skate before dinner.
- The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.
Verb
(skat)Derived terms
* get one's skates on * roller-skate * skateboard * skate on thin ice * skatepark * skaterEtymology 2
From (etyl) skata.Noun
(wikipedia skate) (en noun)Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----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