skim
/skɪm/ verbe B2En français : dépasser doucement, effleurer, frôler, raser
- To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
- To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
- To hasten along with superficial attention.
- To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
- To throw an object so it bounces on water. · skimming stones
- To ricochet.
- To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail. · (through)· I skimmed the newspaper over breakfast.
- To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
He/she/it skims · Prétérit skimmed · Participe passé skimmed · Forme en -ing skimming
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- skim
- He/she/it
- skims
- Prétérit
- skimmed
- Participe passé
- skimmed
- Forme en -ing
- skimming
Dans la bibliothèque
At this moment the door of the house opened, and a large plate came skimming out, straight at the Footman’s head: it just grazed his nose, and broke to pieces against one of the trees behind him.
Anne thought it was truly delightful to go skimming through all this mystery and loveliness with your bosom friend who had been so long estranged.
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.
One day he happened to see a Swallow, which had appeared before its season, skimming along a pool and twittering gaily.
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