Sliding vs Skimmed - What's the difference?
sliding | skimmed |
:Children find that sliding can be fun.
Of something that can slide
:Our yard is just outside the sliding door.
(skim)
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.
As verbs the difference between sliding and skimmed
is that sliding is while skimmed is (skim).As a noun sliding
is the motion of something that slides.As an adjective sliding
is of something that can slide.sliding
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*skimmed
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* skimmed milk * semi-skimmedskim
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(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