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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#m1)

2) As an adjective, skimmed milk is milk with most of the fat (cream) taken off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#x1)
- The stone skimmed across the water four times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#x2)
- A gull skimmed the waves looking for fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#x3)
- I like skimmed milk on my cereal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#x4)
- He skimmed the menu and ordered pizza. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#x5)
- Mum skimmed the foam off the jam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#x6)
- The plane skimmed the tops of the trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#x7)
- A few bats skimmed his nose now and again and scared him half to death. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «skimmed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.