name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
shim
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ʃɪm/
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rhymes with -ɪm
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CMU ARPABET: SH IH1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A wedge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonym: shimstock (uncountable)
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: shimstock
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: slim jim
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: crime
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Synonyms: shimmer
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, informal, often
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Synonyms: he-she
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, informal, often
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noun
Meaning 10
Abbreviation of scanning helium ion microscope.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
Qualifier: microscopy
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verb
Meaning 11
To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
Meaning 12
To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 13
To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 14
To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 15
a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: wedge
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 심(沈) (Sim).
Unknown; from Kent. Originally a piece of iron attached to a plow; sense of “thin piece of wood” from 1723, sense of “thin piece of material used for alignment or support” from 1860.
Blend of she + him.
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: клин (klin) — wedge
- French: coin — wedge
- German: Keil — wedge
- Māori: tahatiti — wedge
- Bulgarian: шайба (šajba) — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- Bulgarian: тру́пче (trúpče) — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- French: cale — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- French: cale d'épaisseur — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- French: espaceur — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- French: étai — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- French: thibaude — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- German: Unterlage — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- German: Abstandhalter — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- German: Abstandsblech — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- German: Unterlegscheibe — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- German: Zwischenstück — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- German: Klemmstück — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- German: Distanzstück — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- German: Futterblech — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- German: Futterholz — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- German: Ausgleichsblech — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- German: Ausgleichsstück — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- German: Passstück — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- German: Beilagscheibe — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- German: Beilagescheibe — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- Malay: syim — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- Malay: sendal — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- Malay: penyendal — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- Malay: sesendal — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- Māori: tūauau — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- Russian: регулировочная прокладка (regulirovočnaja prokladka) — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- Spanish: espaciador — thin piece of material used for alignment or support
- French: sarcloir — shallow plow used in tillage
- German: Dietrich — small metal device to pick a lock
- German: Transsexueller — transsexual person
- German: Transsexuelle — transsexual person
- German: Transe — transsexual person
- Bulgarian: нивели́рам (nivelíram) — adjust by using shims