Skim vs Scop - What's the difference?
skim | scop |
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.
(historical) A poet or minstrel in Anglo-Saxon England.
* 1900', Reuben Post Halleck, ''History of English Literature'', quoted in '''1927 , Thomas Tapper, Percy Goetschius, ''Essentials in Music History , 2011, Facsimile Edition,
* 1991 , R. N. Sarkar, A Topical Survey of English Literature , India,
* 2004 , Richard Marsden, The Cambridge Old English Reader ,
* 2011 , Hugh Magennis, The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature , Cambridge University Press,
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 scop is
scope.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
Derived terms
* skim through * skim over * skim off * skimmed milk * skimmer * semi-skimmedAdjective
(-)Derived terms
* skim milkscop
English
(wikipedia scop)Noun
(en noun)page 42,
- The kings and nobles often attached to them a scop''''', or maker of verses.The banquet was not complete without the songs of the '''scop'''. While the warriors ate the flesh of boar and deer and warmed their blood with horns of foaming ale, the ' scop , standing where the blaze from a pile of logs disclosed to him the grizzly features of the men, sang his most stirring songs, often accompanying them with the music of a rude harp.
page 1,
- The poem is, therefore, entitled Widsith'' which means a great traveller. The scop''' was moving from place to place to find a Lord in his desolate mind here.The ''Lament of Deor'' tells a different story. It is the story of sorrow, clearly defined, the sorrow of a similar ' scop who may have been thrown out of favour and led into an eager search of a new master.
page 273,
- During the feast held in Heorot to celebrate Beowulf's mortal wounding of Grendel, the poet has King Hrothgar's scop perform a 'lay' whose theme of death and disaster is clearly meant to act as a sort of balance to the unbridled joy of the hall-people.
page 43,
- The beginning of the poem introduces a speech by Widsith (lines 1—4a), with an accompanying account of his life and travels as a scop :.