Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

skim

/skɪm/ verb, adjective, noun

Forms skims skimming skimmed

  1. verb (intransitive) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
  2. verb (transitive) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
  3. verb To hasten along with superficial attention.
  4. verb To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
  5. verb (transitive) To throw an object so it bounces on water. “skimming stones”
  6. verb (intransitive) To ricochet.
  7. verb (transitive) To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail. “I skimmed the newspaper over breakfast.”
  8. verb (transitive) To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
  9. adjective (of milk) Having lowered fat content.
  10. noun A cursory reading, skipping the details.
  11. noun (informal) Skim milk.
  12. noun The act of skimming.
  13. noun That which is skimmed off.
  14. noun Theft of money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.

Synonyms

skip skimming plane skim over scan rake glance over run down skitter skim off cream off cream skimmed

Etymology

From Middle English skemen, skymen, variants of scumen, from Old French escumer (“to remove scum”), from escume (“froth, foam”), from Frankish *skūm (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *skew- (“to cover, conceal”). See scum.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.
  2. verb To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.
  3. verb To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
  4. verb To hasten along with superficial attention.

Etymology [Cf. Sw. skymma to darken. sq. root158. See Scum.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “skim”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “skim” (best matches first).

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