From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
skim
adj 1: 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" [syn: skim,
skimmed]
n 1: a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; "there was a
thin skim of oil on the water"
2: reading or glancing through quickly [syn: skim, skimming]
v 1: travel on the surface of water [syn: plane, skim]
2: move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of [syn:
skim over, skim]
3: examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while
waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, glance
over, run down]
4: cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"
[syn: skim, skip, skitter]
5: coat (a liquid) with a layer
6: remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of
milk" [syn: skim, skim off, cream off, cream]
7: read superficially [syn: skim, skim over]