Skimming vs Priming - What's the difference?
skimming | priming |
Something skimmed from a surface etc.
A motion or action that skims.
* Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
(psychology) The implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences response to a subsequent stimulus.
A substance used as a primer.
The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.
The first coating of colour, size, etc. laid on canvas, or on a building or other surface.
The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder.
As verbs the difference between skimming and priming
is that skimming is while priming is .As nouns the difference between skimming and priming
is that skimming is something skimmed from a surface etc while priming is (psychology) the implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences response to a subsequent stimulus.skimming
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(en noun)- aluminium skimmings
- sorghum syrup skimmings
- I was forced, too, to wonder if my previous world-views had not been too pallid, too superficial, and altogether too 'rational' — mere skimmings or skatings on the surface of reality
