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 Translation for 'to skim' from English to Russian
VERB   to skim | skimmed | skimmed
skimming | skims
SYNO skim | skimmed | skimming | ...
гастр.
снятое молоко {с}
skim milk [Am.]
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Translation for 'to skim' from English to Russian

skim milk [Am.]
снятое молоко {с}гастр.
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Usage Examples English
  • In 2020, the "Financial Times" reported on emails and whistleblower information which showed that staff for Kulibayev was involved in schemes that would allow Kuilibayev to skim at least tens of millions of dollars from contracts that the Kazakhstani state made on pipeline construction.
  • From the evidence collected by taps and other eavesdropping in the late 1970s, the FBI discovered a conspiracy to skim money from the Tropicana Casino.
  • This strategy is sometimes also called skim pricing because it is an attempt to “skim the cream” off the top of the market.
  • "Juniper" is also designed to skim and recover oil in the event of an oil spill.
  • Some stars of Puppis and Vela can be seen from Mediterranean latitudes in winter and spring, the ship appearing to skim along the "river of the Milky Way."

  • As an alternative to a ladle, a degreasing cup can be used to skim the fat off hot liquids.
  • The skimmer is generally turned off whenever there is no oil to skim thus minimizing the amount of water collected.
  • It has been suggested that Joe is actually masturbating while all this is going on – and some of Voice's remarks do, not unreasonably, attack his current level of sexual prowess – but scholars tend to skim over the imagery used in the final section of Voice's diatribe so it is difficult to give anything more than a speculative interpretation.
  • The newsletter uses a headline and link format which allows readers to skim the stories and click on only those which are of interest.
  • The CD-i Ready format uses a certain technique to get audio CD players to skim over the CD-i software and data.

  • They stop the Wayward's plan by undermining the ship's control and command systems to divert the engines' thrust just enough to skim past the black hole .
  • The creamery consolidated the earlier milk station operations at Amund corner, Vinje, and three other locations, which used large volume separators to skim off cream.
  • A number of snowmobiles and other ski hill machines explain how they are able to skim across the surface of the snow without getting stuck.
  • The fraud, which involved a computer program designed to skim off sales, was directed by Stew Leonard Sr., in concert with the company's CFO and store manager.
  • It is designed to skim the surface so that only the propeller and the tips of the hydroplanes are immersed when it is moving.

  • Some firefighting aircraft can refill their tanks in mid-flight, by flying down to skim the surface of large bodies of water.
  • While it is possible to skim over the water with a stock snowmobile, the practice can be dangerous.
  • In order to gain speed, the hull shape had to be designed to take advantage of hydroplaning; a hydrofoil-like design would allow the boat to skim atop the water's surface at high speed instead of needing to push aside large quantities of water to move forward.
  • Glenn Curtiss demonstrated a capability to skim along the surface in [...] seas.
  • Skimming may be necessitated by a third crime; for example, an otherwise honest businessman who pays taxes and does not cheat his partners might still be forced to skim some cash from the business and use it to give to an extortionist in the form of a bribe, kickbacks, or payment to a protection racket or loan shark or even a blackmailer.

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