[
UK
/skˈɪmɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈskɪmɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈskɪmɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid
- failure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on it
- reading or glancing through quickly
- the act of brushing against while passing
How To Use skimming In A Sentence
- Looking out the window, I can see an orange flame of whimsical light skimming the horizon, and hues of blue to grey look down benignly from above.
- Reduce the heat and simmer for about 8 minutes, skimming the froth from the surface. Times, Sunday Times
- I tore into the envelope and pulled out the letter, skimming quickly over it.
- Writing the legislation to prohibit spyware and privacy-invasive practices such as keylogging and skimming Undefined
- He has been accused of skimming the cream off the economy.
- Here, too, he delineates his subject through a series of paradoxes: do English charivari and Skimmington rides represent punishment or celebration?
- And just briefly skimming what I can find on counterintuition on the net, it seems that treatment of counterintuitive statements in terms of, effectively, pseudo-propositions, is an unusual characterization. Archive 2005-01-01
- Reduce the heat and simmer for about 8 minutes, skimming the froth from the surface. Times, Sunday Times
- We had walked back, the night full of stars and our breath smoking, ice skimming the puddles. HIGH STAND
- I approached it again, this time dimpling the water with a stick, and the strider burst into a long run of skips like a skimming stone.
