Skimmed vs Scheme - What's the difference?

skimmed | scheme |

As a verb skimmed

is (skim).

As a noun scheme is

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

scheme

English

(wikipedia scheme)

Noun

(en noun)

A systematic plan of future action.

* Jonathan Swift

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

* {{quote-magazine, title=Ideas coming down the track, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838

, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=A “moving platform” scheme

A plot or secret, devious plan.

An orderly combination of related parts.

* John Locke

the appearance and outward scheme of things

* Atterbury

such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity

* J. Edwards

arguments sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy

* Macaulay

The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.

A chart or diagram of a system or object.

* South

to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France

(mathematics) A type of topological space.

(UK, chiefly, Scotland) A council housing estate.

* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 101:

It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme .

(rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.

(astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

* Sir Walter Scott

a blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity

Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.

Usage notes

In the US, generally has devious connotations, while in the UK, frequently used as a neutral term for projects: “The road is closed due to a pavement-widening scheme.”

Synonyms

* (a systematic plan of future action) blueprint

Verb

(schem)

To plot, or contrive a plan.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=April 26 , author=Tasha Robinson , title=Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits : , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek. }}

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