skimming的意思|skimming的解释-里氏词典

skimming ['skimiŋ]

n. 撇去浮沫, 略读

[化] 贴胶

[医] 撇去, 撇清

[经] 尽早获利, 早期取利

skimming

[ noun ]

the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid

<noun.act>

reading or glancing through quickly

<noun.communication>

failure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on it

<noun.act>

the act of brushing against while passing

<noun.act>

Skimming \Skim"ming\, n.
1. The act of one who skims.

2. That which is skimmed from the surface of a liquid; --
chiefly used in the plural; as, the skimmings of broth.

Skim \Skim\ (sk[i^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Skimmed} (sk[i^]md);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Skimming}.] [Cf. Sw. skymma to darken.
[root]158. See {Scum}.]
1. To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or
lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just
beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.

2. To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.

3. To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to
glide swiftly along the surface of.

Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the
top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the
ocean. --Hazlitt.

4. Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in
order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim
a book or a newspaper.

The commission held that there wasn't any persuasive evidence that Mr. Gaughan knew about the skimming.
When the suit was settled in 1987, the papers issued a statement saying "extensive discovery" found no evidence of skimming.
She has denied to FHA investigators and in an interview that she has engaged in equity skimming.
Allied says HMOs boost indemnity premiums for older employees by skimming off young, healthy workers.
Robinson and five associates also were charged with skimming $650,000 from the profits of three Wendy's International Inc. restaurants on Chicago's South Side through the management company they controlled.
The defense said the deputies were victims of their former boss, Sobel, who pleaded guilty in the case and testified about alleged money skimming operations.
The lawmaker intends to revive a bill, introduced during 1986, that would require tighter FHA administrative controls and stiffer criminal penalties for equity skimming.
Financial Services Join Trend to Catalog Sales READERS skimming a catalog for the Owens Group might mistake it for a travel brochure.
Indelicato was considered the mastermind behind the plan that involved paying inflated rent and receiving some of the money back, taking the salaries of fictitious employees and skimming funds intended to pay for classroom renovations.
The militias have been skimming tax revenues the government would otherwise collect there.
Vacuum and skimming equipment were being used to clean up the slick, and up to 300 workers were expected to use rakes, shovels and absorbent material to clean the shoreline.
According to the charges, Hastings plotted with Borders in 1981 to obtain a $150,000 bribe from two brothers, Frank and Tom Romano, convicted of skimming from a Teamsters pension fund loan.
Workers cleaning up a Delaware River oil spill of up to 800,000 gallons used rakes and even their hands this morning to pick up gobs of oil so big and heavy they jammed skimming machinery.
I heard the bullets skimming past my head: shoo, shoo.
Miller's father was an associate of former casino executive Carl Thomas, convicted in a Las Vegas hotel-casino profit skimming case. But Miller said he was shocked at revelations of Thomas' criminal activity.
Saudi officials yesterday scrambled to lay booms and position skimming vessels to protect major desalination plants, power plants, refineries and other industrial facilities.
The skimming craft was being used Friday inside a ring of floating booms set up around the ship to contain the leak.
The Sylvia pas de deux, the iridescent Valse Fantaisie, its dancers skimming like dragonflies, looked as delightful as ever.
The Coast Guard estimated last week that skimming boats cleaned up more than a third of the oil, while nearly half evaporated or dissipated in the ocean.
"We don't know how it (the Vaidogubsky) is going to work in the kind of oil we're skimming," he said. "Our goal is to get in the oil.
Mr. Morgan himself was the investment banker masterminding the affair, skimming off big fees and leaking self-serving information.
It wants to keep skimming all the aid that is coming.
As a crack helicopter pilot, he was a coldly efficient killer skimming across the jungles of Vietnam or a brazen bandit swooping down on target banks in Texas, Louisiana and Nevada.

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