skimmed

«skimmed» in Mova's school dictionary: the past of skim: read quickly, moved just over the top… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb, past form of skim (skim, skims, skimmed, skimming); adjective (skimmed milk)

meaning for a pupil

1) Skimmed is the past of skim: read quickly, moved just over the top of something, or took the top layer off. tree →

2) As an adjective, skimmed milk is milk with most of the fat (cream) taken off. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories: «She skimmed the letter», «the bird skimmed the lake». In health and food lessons, skimmed milk has less fat than whole milk. In the USA people usually say «skim milk»; in the UK, Ireland and Australia «skimmed milk».

examples

• She skimmed the book and then chose it from the library. tree →
• The stone skimmed across the water four times. tree →
• A gull skimmed the waves looking for fish. tree →
• I like skimmed milk on my cereal. tree →
• He skimmed the menu and ordered pizza. tree →
• Mum skimmed the foam off the jam. tree →
• The plane skimmed the tops of the trees. tree →
• A few bats skimmed his nose now and again and scared him half to death. tree →

note

Past and past participle of skim; note the double m. «Skimmed milk» (UK) = «skim milk» (US). Skimmed milk still has calcium and protein; only most of the fat is gone.

In the corpora

• In Britain blue caps usually mean whole milk, green semi-skimmed and red skimmed, which has had most of its fat taken out.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «skimmed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.