RAKE vs SKIM: NOUN
- A local miners' term in Derbyshire, England, for veins of galena in joints in limestone, as contrasted with fault-fissures. The joints are often enlarged by the solution and removal of the walls, but they may be and usually are limited or cut off sharply by an underlying stratum. Also written rake-vein. Compare gash-vein.
- A lean, meager person.
- In coal-mining, a series of thin layers of ironstone lying so near each other that they can all be worked together.
- Inclination or slope away from a perpendicular or a horizontal line.
- An idle, dissolute person; one who goes about in search of vicious pleasure; a libertine; an idle person of fashion.
- An instrument of similar form and use with a blade instead of teeth, either entire, as a gamblers' or a maltsters' rake, or notched so as to form teeth, as a furriers' rake. See the quotations.
- An implement of wood or iron, or partly of both, with teeth or tines for drawing or scraping things together, evening a surface of loose materials, etc.
- A course, way, road, or path.
- A usually well-to-do man who is dissolute or promiscuous.
- A device that resembles such an implement.
- A long-handled implement with a row of projecting teeth at its head, used especially to gather leaves or to loosen or smooth earth.
- The inclined edge of a pitched roof or the roof of a gable or dormer.
- The angle at which a roof is inclined.
- The angle between the cutting edge of a tool and a plane perpendicular to the working surface to which the tool is applied.
- Inclination from the perpendicular.
- Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- A dissolute man in fashionable society
- A long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
- A cultivator blade for surface work, analogous to a sweep. See scalp, 7, and sweep, 12 .
- Thick matter that forms or collects on the surface of a liquor; scum.
- The act of skimming; also, that which is skimmed off.
- The money stolen by skimming from an account or business operation.
- A thin layer or film.
- Something that has been skimmed.
- The act of skimming.
- A thin layer covering the surface of a liquid
- Reading or glancing through quickly
RAKE vs SKIM: ADJECTIVE
- N/A
- Skimmed milk; milk from which the cream has been taken.
- A colter for paring off the surface of land.
- The final or finishing coat of plaster.
- Contraction of skimming and skimmed.
- Used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed
RAKE vs SKIM: VERB
- Scrape gently
- Examine hastily
- Level or smooth with a rake
- Gather with a rake
- Sweep the length of
- Move through with or as if with a rake
- To throw an object so it bounces on water (skimming stones)
- 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
RAKE vs SKIM: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
- To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
- To conduct a thorough search.
- To use a rake.
- To aim heavy gunfire along the length of.
- To scrape; scratch.
- To pull or drag (a comb or one's fingers, for example) over or through something, such as one's hair.
- To move over or across swiftly or harshly.
- To smooth, scrape, or loosen with a rake or similar implement.
- To gain in abundance. Often used with in.
- To gather or move with or as if with a rake.
- To put on the finishing coat of plaster.
- To hasten along with superficial attention.
- To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
- To become coated with a thin layer.
- To give a quick and superficial reading, scrutiny, or consideration; glance.
- To fail to declare certain income to avoid tax payment.
- To move or pass swiftly and lightly over or near a surface; glide.
- To touch lightly or superficially on.
- To glance over quickly; scan.
- To read or glance through (a book, for example) quickly or superficially.
- To glide or pass quickly and lightly over or along (a surface). : brush.
- To throw so as to bounce or slide.
- To coat or cover with a thin layer.
- To copy information from (a credit card) as part of a skimming fraud.
- To fail to declare part of (certain income, such as winnings) to avoid tax payment.
- To embezzle (money) by taking a small portion on each transaction.
- To remove floating matter from (a liquid).
RAKE vs SKIM: TRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts.
- To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
- To take off by skimming.
- To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface
RAKE vs SKIM: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Used to move leaves or loosen soil
- To make search with or as if with a rake; seek diligently for something; pry; peer here and there.
- To use a rake; work with a rake, especially in drawing together hay or grain.
- To draw from oblivion or obscurity, as something forgotten or abandoned; bring to renewed attention; resuscitate; revive: used in a more or less opprobrious sense: as, to rake up a forgotten quarrel.
- To cover with earth raked together; bury. See to rake up, below.
- Milit., to fire upon, as a ship, so that the shot will pass lengthwise along the deck; fire in the direction of the length of, as a file of soldiers or a parapet; enfilade.
- To pass along with or as if with a scraping motion; impinge lightly upon in moving; hence, to pass over swiftly; scour.
- To make minute search in, as if with a rake; look over or through carefully; ransack: as, to rake all history for examples.
- To collect as if by the use of a rake; gather assiduously or laboriously; draw or scrape together, up, or in.
- To gather, clear, smooth, or stir with or as if with a rake; treat with a rake, or something that serves the same purpose: as, to rake up hay; to rake a bed in a garden; to rake the fire with a poker or raker.
- In salt-making, to remove the salt from (the evaporating-pans) to the draining-table.
- In turpentining, to clear combustible material away from (the base of a tree), as a precaution against fire.
- To play the part of a rake; lead a dissolute, debauched life; practise lewdness.
- Of a dog, to follow a wrong course. See the quotation.
- Of a hawk, to range wildly; fly wide of the game.
- In hunting:
- To take a course; move; go; proceed.
- To give a rake to; cause to incline or slope.
- To incline from the perpendicular or the horizontal, as the mast, stem, or stern of a ship, the rafters of a roof, the end of a tool, etc. See the noun.
- (idiom) (rake over the coals) To reprimand severely.
- (intransitive; transitive verb) To slant or cause to incline from the perpendicular.
- To become covered with a scum or film; be coated over.
- To pass in hasty inspection or consideration, as over the surface of something; observe or consider lightly or superficially.
- To pass lightly and smoothly over a surface; hence, to glide or dart along in a smooth, even course.
- To cause to dart, skip, or ricochet along a surface; hurl along a surface in a smooth, straight course.
- To pass over lightly in perusal or inspection; glance over hastily or superficially.
- To pass lightly along or near the surface of; move smoothly and lightly over; glide, float, fly, or run over the surface of.
- To cover with a film or scum; coat over.
- To mow.
- To clear; rid; free from obstacles or enemies.
- To lift from the surface of a liquid by a sliding movement, as with a puddle, a flat ladle, a spoon, or the like; dip up with or as with a skimmer, as cream from milk or fat from soup; hence, to clear away; remove.
- To lift the scum from; clear the surface of by removing any floating matter, by means of a spoon, a flat ladle, or the like: as, to skim soup by removing the oil or fat; to skim milk by taking off the cream.
- In plastering, to put the finishing coat or skim-coat on.
RAKE vs SKIM: RELATED WORDS
- Tilt, Scour, Muck, Blood, Glance over, Run down, Scan, Crease, Slant, Profligate, Roue, Pitch, Graze, Rip, Skim
- Coulter, Run down, Skim over, Skim off, Cream off, Fat free, Glance over, Plane, Fatless, Scan, Skip, Nonfat, Cream, Skitter, Rake
RAKE vs SKIM: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Tilt, Scour, Muck, Blood, Glance over, Run down, Scan, Crease, Slant, Profligate, Roue, Pitch, Graze, Rip, Skim
- Skimmer, Glide, Mozzarella, Ricotta, Run down, Skim off, Glance over, Fat free, Cream off, Plane, Fatless, Scan, Skip, Nonfat, Cream
RAKE vs SKIM: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Firmer than a leaf rake, a soil rake will even out your garden or push around your mulch.
- After the soil has been loosened, rake the surface smooth with a garden rake and break up any large clods that remain.
- The panel will not be fastened permanently to the rake support until the rake trim is installed.
- The Ruby Beeline will automatically instrument your rake tasks and create a trace and root span for each rake task.
- Dethatching generally includes using a thatch rake or power rake machine to remove the excess thatch.
- For example, a standard rake structure might be posted as "5 percent rake, $2 maximum.".
- Rake with a metal rake to remove dead grass and built up thatch.
- Rake in small movements toward yourself rather than pushing the rake away.
- Rake extension builder uses explicit correctly loads rubygems when invoking rake.
- As Damon has already said, rake rake rake it back!
- Skim it now and learn the major players.
- Readers like to skim, especially on the web.
- Most people just skim through articles these days.
- Prospective employers skim through resumes just that fast.
- TPP, such as skim milk powder and butter.
- Free Skim Milk comes out, ready for bottling!
- Wingand Skim are also members of Jinjo crew.
- He encouraged his mom to purchase skim milk.
- Of skim milk and one cup of special K, one cup of skim and!
- Open and skim read the whole text first and then skim each of the five sections it contains below.
RAKE vs SKIM: QUESTIONS
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- Does rake come with programmed and live message options?
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- What parts are included in the Bluebird power rake?
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- Does Dr Scott rake accept new patients on HealthGrades?
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- Is Rake Lane Hospital still serving the community well?
- Does arenarena rake provide free delivery to toll depots?
- Who is concrete Tine rake grooving rake manufacturer?
- Czy istnieje możliwość urlopu wypoczynkowego po macierzyńskim?
- Do you have to skim plasterboard before plastering?
- Should I skim plasterboard before applying wallpaper paste?
- Kto był największym Bogiem słowiańskim?
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- Why does skim reading cause comprehension problems?
- Kto był najpopularniejszym imieniem męskim?