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Significats de skimming en anglès

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The act of brushing against while passing.

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Reading or glancing through quickly.

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Examples for "skim"
Examples for "skim"
1
Semihard; skim; blue-veined; made of all three milks: cow, goat and sheep.
The Complete Book of Cheese
2
A quick skim through Twitter reveals what really shook people this year.
The Irish Times
3
It let the agency skim uncounted millions of dollars from the plan.
Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
4
Semisoft; sour skim milk with salty flavor from curing in brine bath.
The Complete Book of Cheese
5
When it has boiled skim it, and then put in the plums.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches

Reading technique.

Ús de skimming en anglès
1
He'd been skimming text after text, but he read this one twice:
The Kill Order
2
Allen said seas were still rough but skimming operations should resume soon.
Reuters
3
At noon that day the galley was skimming the sea off Paestum.
Ben-Hur
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Daylight found him in the buckboard, skimming the prairies for the station.
Heart of the West
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That skimming drive, six minutes from the end, smacked of the inevitable.
The Guardian
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She read quickly, her eye skimming the obituary, personal, and social columns.
Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
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Next a marsh hawk in brown plumage comes skimming over the grass.
A Florida Sketch-Book
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They boil it down and evaporate the water, skimming off the impurities.
The Journey to the Polar Sea
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Oliver took off his hat and sent it skimming to the couch.
The Literary World Seventh Reader
10
The thought came and went like a dragonfly skimming the river's surface.
The Bone Doll's Twin
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There's enough clearance for us to pass through without skimming the surface.
Unraveled
12
I have lunch and hate-skim a blog I've been hate-skimming for years.
Wired
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She could see the shadows of his feet skimming across that line.
Watch them die
14
Keep the lid close, except when you are skimming off the fat.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
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She could almost feel his long, clever fingers skimming over her skin.
Public secrets
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Three big boats were skimming down the harbour like great white sea-birds.
Rainbow Valley
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Translations for skimming
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Skimming a través del temps
Skimming per variant geogràfica
Estats Units d'Amèrica
Comú
Regne Unit
Comú