Skim vs Pore - What's the difference?
skim | pore |
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.
A tiny opening in the skin.
By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many or allowing passage of a fluid.
to study meticulously; to go over again and again.
to meditate or reflect in a steady way.
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.As a noun pore is
fear, dread.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
