Ski vs Skim - What's the difference?
ski | skim |
One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow.
One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over water pulled by a boat.
To move on skis.
To travel over (a slope etc.) on skis; travel on skis at (a place), especially as a sport.
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 a noun ski
is ski.As a verb skim is
to pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.As an adjective skim is
(of milk) having lowered fat content.ski
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(wikipedia ski)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* jet ski * skier * skiing * ski pole * ski resort * ski school * ski slopeVerb
Anagrams
* ----skim
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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