skim

/skɪm/ nom C2

En français : lecture en diagonale, lait écrémé, écrémage

A cursory reading, skipping the details. (countable, uncountable)
Skim milk. (countable, informal, uncountable)
The act of skimming. (countable, uncountable)
That which is skimmed off. (countable, uncountable)
Theft of money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection. (countable, uncountable)

Pluriel skims

Dans la bibliothèque

Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry instead of into the pigs’ bucket, and walking clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in imaginative reverie, not really being worth counting.

Anne of Green Gables, p. 173 · C1

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