"skim through" meaning in English

See skim through in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: skims through [present, singular, third-person], skimming through [participle, present], skimmed through [participle, past], skimmed through [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} skim through (third-person singular simple present skims through, present participle skimming through, simple past and past participle skimmed through)
  1. to go through something hastily
    Sense id: en-skim_through-en-verb-RYcITNF5
  2. to read something hurriedly without being attached to details Translations (to read something hurriedly without being attached to details): silmäillä läpi (Finnish), survoler (French), lire en diagonale (French), просма́тривать (prosmátrivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), просмотре́ть (prosmotrétʹ) [perfective] (Russian), проли́стывать (prolístyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), пролиста́ть (prolistátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), бе́гло прочи́тывать (béglo pročítyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), бе́гло прочита́ть (béglo pročitátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), göz gezdirmek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-skim_through-en-verb-cTGxsYqS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (through) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 81 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (through): 38 62 Disambiguation of 'to read something hurriedly without being attached to details': 2 98

Download JSON data for skim through meaning in English (3.1kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skims through",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skimming through",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skimmed through",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skimmed through",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "skim through (third-person singular simple present skims through, present participle skimming through, simple past and past participle skimmed through)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to go through something hastily"
      ],
      "id": "en-skim_through-en-verb-RYcITNF5",
      "links": [
        [
          "hastily",
          "hastily"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "19 81",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 62",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (through)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details"
      ],
      "id": "en-skim_through-en-verb-cTGxsYqS",
      "links": [
        [
          "read",
          "read"
        ],
        [
          "hurriedly",
          "hurriedly"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
          "word": "silmäillä läpi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
          "word": "survoler"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
          "word": "lire en diagonale"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "prosmátrivatʹ",
          "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "просма́тривать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "prosmotrétʹ",
          "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "просмотре́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "prolístyvatʹ",
          "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "проли́стывать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "prolistátʹ",
          "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "пролиста́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "béglo pročítyvatʹ",
          "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "бе́гло прочи́тывать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "béglo pročitátʹ",
          "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "бе́гло прочита́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 98",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
          "word": "göz gezdirmek"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "skim through"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (through)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skims through",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skimming through",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skimmed through",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skimmed through",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "skim through (third-person singular simple present skims through, present participle skimming through, simple past and past participle skimmed through)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to go through something hastily"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hastily",
          "hastily"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "read",
          "read"
        ],
        [
          "hurriedly",
          "hurriedly"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
      "word": "silmäillä läpi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
      "word": "survoler"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
      "word": "lire en diagonale"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prosmátrivatʹ",
      "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "просма́тривать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prosmotrétʹ",
      "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "просмотре́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prolístyvatʹ",
      "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "проли́стывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prolistátʹ",
      "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "пролиста́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "béglo pročítyvatʹ",
      "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "бе́гло прочи́тывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "béglo pročitátʹ",
      "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "бе́гло прочита́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to read something hurriedly without being attached to details",
      "word": "göz gezdirmek"
    }
  ],
  "word": "skim through"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.