Synonyms of the word

skim

• v. (intransitive) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
• v. (transitive) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface…
• v. To hasten along with superficial attention.
• v. To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
• v. (transitive) to throw an object so it bounces on water (skimming stones).
• v. (intransitive) to ricochet.
• v. (transitive) to read quickly, skipping some detail.
• v. (transitive) to scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface.
• v. (transitive) to clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil…
• v. (transitive) to clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream…
• adj. (of milk) Having lowered fat content.
• n. A cursory reading, skipping the details.
• n. (informal) Skim milk.

coat

• n. (countable) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.^Wp.
• n. (countable) A covering of material, such as paint.^Wp.
• n. (countable) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.^Wp.
• n. (uncountable, nautical) Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent…
• n. (obsolete) A petticoat.
• n. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
• n. A coat of arms.^Wp.
• n. A coat card.
• v. To cover with a coat of some material.
• v. To cover as a coat.

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

covering

• n. (countable) That which covers something.
• n. (uncountable) Action of the verb to cover.
• v. present participle of cover.

cream

• n. The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
• n. A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
• n. (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped…
• n. (figuratively) The best part of something.
• n. (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to…
• n. (vulgar, slang) Semen.
• n. (obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
• adj. Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
• v. To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
• v. To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
• v. (slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
• v. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
• v. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing).
• v. (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
• v. (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To take off the best or choicest part of.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.

examine

• v. To observe or inspect carefully or critically.
• v. To check the health or condition of something or someone.
• v. To determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination.
• v. To interrogate.

fat-free

• adj. Not containing fat.

fatless

• adj. Without fat, especially in the senses: made without fat, fat-free.

glide

• v. (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
• v. (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
• v. (transitive) To cause to glide.
• v. (phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
• n. The act of gliding.
• n. (phonology) Semivowel.
• n. (fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant…
• n. A bird, the glede or kite.
• n. A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor.

nonfat

• adj. Containing no fat; fat-free.

plane

• adj. Of a surface: flat or level.
• n. A level or flat surface.
• n. (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
• n. A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane).
• n. A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water…
• n. (computing, Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.
• n. (anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
• n. (countable) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
• v. (transitive) To smooth (wood) with a plane.
• n. An airplane; an aeroplane.
• v. (nautical) To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water.
• v. To glide or soar.
• n. (countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
• n. (Northern UK) A sycamore.

rake

• n. A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris,…
• n. (Ireland, slang) A lot, plenty.
• n. (rail transport) A set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
• n. (cellular automata) A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
• n. The scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
• n. A toothed machine drawn by a horse, used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
• n. (mining) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
• v. To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris…
• v. To search thoroughly.
• v. To spray with gunfire.
• v. To claw at; to scratch.
• v. To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in).
• v. (intransitive) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
• n. Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular.
• n. (geology) The direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.
• n. (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To guide; to direct.
• v. (intransitive) To incline from a perpendicular direction.
• n. A man habituated to immoral conduct.
• v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
• v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
• n. (provincial, Northern England) A course; direction; stretch.
• n. (provincial, Northern England, for animals) A range, stray.
• v. (provincial, Northern England) To run or rove.

read

• v. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed…
• v. (transitive) To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.
• v. To consist of certain text.
• v. (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
• v. (transitive) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce…
• v. (informal, usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
• v. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
• v. (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
• v. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
• v. (transitive, transgender) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
• v. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either…
• n. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
• n. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's…
• n. (in combination) That which is to be read.

reading

• v. present participle of read.
• n. The process of interpreting written language.
• n. The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
• n. A value indicated by a measuring device.
• n. A meeting where written material is read aloud.
• n. An interpretation.
• n. Something to read; reading material.
• n. The extent of what one has read.
• n. (legislature) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
• n. a piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience: readings from the Bible.

remove

• v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
• v. (transitive) To murder.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
• v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
• v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
• v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
• n. The act of removing something.
• n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
• n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
• n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
• n. Distance in time or space; interval.
• n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
• n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

scan

• v. To examine sequentially, part by part.
• v. (computing) To create a digital copy of an image using a scanner.
• v. To look about for.
• v. (poetry) To fit or conform to a specific meter.
• v. (obsolete) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
• n. An instance of scanning.
• n. The result or output of a scanning process.

see

• v. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
• v. To form a mental picture of.
• v. (social) To meet, to visit.
• v. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
• v. (gambling) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
• v. (sometimes mystical) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
• v. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
• v. (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
• v. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
• n. A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
• n. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric.
• n. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

skimmed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of skim.

skimming

• v. present participle of skim.
• n. Something skimmed from a surface etc.
• n. A motion or action that skims.
• n. (uncountable) The sport of skimboarding.

skip

• v. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
• v. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
• v. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
• v. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
• v. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
• v. To place an item in a skip.
• v. (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
• v. (transitive, informal) To leave.
• v. To leap lightly over.
• v. To jump rope.
• n. A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
• n. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
• n. (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
• n. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
• n. (radio) skywave propagation.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) A large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back…
• n. (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket.
• n. A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
• n. (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
• n. A beehive.
• n. Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
• n. (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
• n. (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

skitter

• v. (intransitive) To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry.
• v. (intransitive) To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.
• v. (transitive) To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals;…
• n. (also figuratively) A skittering movement.
• v. (Scotland, Northern England, transitive) To cause to have diarrhea.
• v. (Scotland, Northern England, intransitive) To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.
• n. (Scotland, Northern England, uncountable) Often skitters: the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin…

surface

• n. The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
• n. The outside hull of a tangible object.
• n. (figuratively) Outward or external appearance.
• n. (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom)…
• n. (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the…
• v. (transitive) To provide something with a surface.
• v. (transitive) To apply a surface to something.
• v. (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
• v. (intransitive) To come out of hiding.
• v. (intransitive) For information or facts to become known.
• v. (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
• v. (intransitive) To appear or be found.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

throw

• v. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
• v. (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
• v. (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
• v. (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
• v. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
• v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during…
• v. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal…
• v. (sports) To intentionally lose a game.
• v. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
• v. (figuratively) To send desperately.
• v. (transitive) To imprison.
• v. To organize an event, especially a party.
• v. To roll (a die or dice).
• v. (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
• v. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position…
• v. (transitive) To subject someone to verbally.
• v. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone…
• v. (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
• v. (transitive) To project or send forth.
• v. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
• v. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles,…
• v. (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role…
• n. The flight of a thrown object.
• n. The act of throwing something.
• n. One's ability to throw.
• n. A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
• n. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
• n. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
• n. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
• n. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
• v. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
• n. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
• n. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
• n. Misspelling of throe.

touch

• v. Primarily physical senses.
• v. Primarily non-physical senses.
• v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
• v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
• v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
• v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
• v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
• v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
• n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
• n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
• n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
• n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
• n. A little bit; a small amount.
• n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
• n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
• n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
• n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
• n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
• n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
• n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
• n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
• n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
• n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
• n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
• n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
• n. The children's game of tag.
• n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
• n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
• n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

withdraw

• v. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
• v. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
• v. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
• v. (intransitive) To retreat.
• v. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.