skimming

Plural: skimmings

Noun

• Matter removed from a liquid's surface; rapid, superficial reading.
• the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid
• reading or glancing through quickly
• failure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on it
• the act of brushing against while passing
• Something skimmed from a surface etc.
• A motion or action that skims.
• The sport of skimboarding.
• Ellipsis of price skimming.
• Ellipsis of cream skimming.
• The act of fraudulently copying a magnetic stripe from a magnetic stripe card, such as found on credit cards and bank cards, through the use of a skimmer

Verb

• travel on the surface of water
• move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of
• examine hastily
• cause to skip over a surface
• coat (a liquid) with a layer
• remove from the surface
• read superficially
• present participle and gerund of skim

Examples

• His skimming of the dictionary often yielded short, useful words for Scrabble.

Synonyms

cream, cream off, glance over, grazing, plane, rake, run down, scan, shaving, skim, skim off, skim over, skip, skitter