skim

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I can skim an article / blog post and glean most of the salient points.

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Quick take

a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; "there was a thin skim of oil on the water"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of skim gathered in one view.

noun

a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; "there was a thin skim of oil on the water"

noun

reading or glancing through quickly

verb

travel on the surface of water

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for skim.

noun

a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; "there was a thin skim of oil on the water"

noun

reading or glancing through quickly

verb

travel on the surface of water

verb

move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of

verb

examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"

verb

cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"

verb

coat (a liquid) with a layer

verb

remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of milk"

verb

read superficially

adjective

used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed; "yogurt made with skim milk"; "she can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter"

Example sentences

I can skim an article / blog post and glean most of the salient points.

As a heavy HN user, I often skim the front page to see what's happening.

It's a process they're very familiar with so they're going to skim and click through quickly.

It lets you control how much is seen on screen depending whether you want to read it in depth or skim it.

I'm really fed up of sites like this that hijack scrolling, it prevents you from skim reading.

"Did you read anything else before you went into Political Strike Mode, or did you just skim it?

" Either they assume the user scans for "Ok," when wanting to close something, or that they skim sentences from the inside-out.

" In a way we're conditioned to expect a bunch of garbage filler that we merely skim, and because that's what's in demand right now it's what authors are incentivized to provide.

Occasionally I skim through the new stories and if I see something interesting there I might upvote it.- For comments, I upvote comments I find particularly helpful or insightful.

The premise behind a dark pool is that institutional buy-side investors would use them instead of a lit exchange because they want to trade against other buy-side investors, without market-makers and aggressive, automated sell-side firms to skim off their profits.