skim
Other forms: skimming; skimmed; skims
To skim is to remove something from the surface of a liquid. Some cooks skim the fat off of the top of their chicken noodle soup, others skim the cream off milk to make skim (or skimmed) milk.
Cream is what you skim off the surface of milk, and if you don't like the whipped version, you might skim it from your hot chocolate. Another way to use the word skim is to mean "read quickly," like when you skim the newspaper, catching just the headlines as you search for the comics section. Skim has an Old French root, escumer, "remove scum," from escume, "scum." The "glance through a book" meaning came later, in the late 1700’s.
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remove from the surface
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cause to skip over a surface
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coat (a liquid) with a layer
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a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid
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used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed
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examine hastily
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read superficially
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reading or glancing through quickly
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move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of
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travel on the surface of water
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