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Meanings of skimming in английском

каталонский
fregar

The act of brushing against while passing.

        fregar

        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.

                    Usage of skimming in английском
                    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
                    4
                    Daylight found him in the buckboard, skimming the prairies for the station.
                    Heart of the West
                    5
                    That skimming drive, six minutes from the end, smacked of the inevitable.
                    The Guardian
                    6
                    She read quickly, her eye skimming the obituary, personal, and social columns.
                    Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
                    7
                    Next a marsh hawk in brown plumage comes skimming over the grass.
                    A Florida Sketch-Book
                    8
                    They boil it down and evaporate the water, skimming off the impurities.
                    The Journey to the Polar Sea
                    9
                    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
                    11
                    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
                    13
                    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
                    15
                    She could almost feel his long, clever fingers skimming over her skin.
                    Public secrets
                    16
                    Three big boats were skimming down the harbour like great white sea-birds.
                    Rainbow Valley
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                    Translations for skimming
                    каталонский
                    fregar
                    Skimming through the time
                    Skimming across language varieties
                    United States of America
                    Common
                    United Kingdom
                    Common