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Skimmed vs Pored - What's the difference?

skimmed | pored |

As verbs the difference between skimmed and pored

is that skimmed is (skim) while pored is (pore).

skimmed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (skim)

    • Derived terms

    * skimmed milk * semi-skimmed

    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

    pored

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pore)

    • Anagrams

    * * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Preposition

  • (with genitive ) next, next to
    • do?i s(j)edni pored mene — come and sit next to me (= )
  • (with genitive ) by (= )
    • metak je proletio pored mene — the bullet whizzed by me
  • (with genitive ) along (= )
    • cesta ide pored r(ij)eke — the road goes along the river
  • (with genitive ) in spite of (= )
    • pored svih upozorenja — in spite of all warnings
  • (with genitive ) besides, in addition to (= )
    • pored svega toga — in addition to all that
    pored ostalog — in addition to everything else
  • (with genitive ) except (= )
    • ona nema ništa pored te prikolice — she has nothing except that trailer