(v. i.) To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.
(v. i.) To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.
(v. t.) To pass over quickly.
(n.) The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.
(n.) Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind.
(n.) A slight, sudden shower.
(n.) A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
(n.) Any swimming amphipod crustacean.
Example Sentences:
(1) It said Damascus had proved itself "incapable of using its weapons systems proportionately or discriminately" and had fired lethal Scud missiles against its own cities, such as Aleppo.
(2) It is thought that he only has the remnants of the weapons programme that was dismantled in 2004, and coalition air strikes have targeted the Scud missiles that could have been used to deliver them.
(3) Batteries of US-made Patriot missiles, designed to shoot down the likes of the Scuds used in the 1991 Gulf war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, are about to be deployed by the US, German and Dutch armies, each of which is sending up to 400 troops to operate and protect the rocket systems.
(4) Experts say the North's Soviet-era Scud missiles could hit South Korea, where the US has bases, but it is unclear whether its longer-range missiles could hit Pacific bases.
(5) Serves 2 garlic cloves 4, peeled bird's eye chillies (scuds) 4-10 salt good pinch vegetable oil 3-4 tbsp eggs 2 coarsely minced beef 200 g fish sauce about 2 tbsp white sugar a large pinch stock or water 4 tbsp holy basil leaves 2 large handfuls chillies in fish sauce (see below) to serve For the chillies in fish sauce fish sauce 4 tbsp bird's eye chillies (scuds) 10-15, finely sliced garlic cloves (optional but desirable) 2, finely sliced lime juice (optional) 1 tbsp chopped coriander good pinch To make the chillies in fish sauce, combine the fish sauce, chillies and garlic in a bowl and set aside.
(6) Anti-Assad fighters have repeatedly complained they cannot protect their communities from attacks by a regime armed with fighter jets, tanks and Scud ballistic missiles.
(7) Opposition-held parts of Aleppo have repeatedly been hit by large ballistic missiles, including scuds, as well as non-conventional high-explosive bombs dropped from helicopters, known as barrel bombs.
(8) The claim by British and US forces that Iraq had fired illegal Scud missiles into Kuwait was reported 27 times on British news programmes.
(9) Sevilla had to come out of their defensive cocoon now and ventured forward in greater numbers but Real remained much the more cohesive, dangerous team and Benzema threatened to widen the margin after 63 minutes when his scudding shot had Beto in more productive action.
(10) The missiles, presumed to be Scud-types, were launched from North Hwanghae province and travelled for up to 600km (370 miles), South Korean news agency Yonhap quoted the military as saying.
(11) During the Persian Gulf War in the winter of 1991, Israel received 18 missile attacks involving 39 surface-to-surface Scud missiles.
(12) Amid the controversy over the EU embargo and whether the US should send arms directly to the rebels, Moscow and Tehran have continued to support the Syrian army, which has precision weapons and artillery as well as armed helicopters, SU-22 strike aircraft and Scud missiles.
(13) Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian Nothing could detract from the views beyond the hedge rows, however, with low-scudding clouds shapeshifting the light over pastures running down to sandy coves.
(14) These, it says, include Scud C, Scud B, M500 missiles, bombs and artillery rockets with a range of up to 500km.
(15) But now the sun disappears behind the low cloud of wariness that scuds across his face.
(16) Throughout the 1991 Gulf War a rural Family Medicine practice in central Israel, situated 20 km from the nearest Scud missile attack area, continued to operate normally.
(17) Bob Caldwell Badby, Northamptonshire • As one of the Ulster Unionists referred to by Chris Haskins ( Letters , 20 January), I always put the Met Office’s refusal to report on the Republic’s weather – while showing clouds and other climatic manifestations scudding across the 26 counties – down to British politeness: the Republic doesn’t belong to the UK so we shouldn’t talk about its weather, sort of thing.
(18) However, Stavridis wrote that a handful of Scud missiles were launched inside Syria in recent days towards opposition targets and "several landed fairly close to the Turkish border, which is very worrisome".
(19) During the period 18 January-28 February 1991, a total of 39 Iraqi modified Scud missiles landed in Israel, most of them in the densely populated Tel Aviv area.
(20) When the inspectors left in 1998, they left unaccounted for: 10,000 litres of anthrax; a far reaching VX nerve agent programme; up to 6,500 chemical munitions; at least 80 tonnes of mustard gas, possibly more than ten times that amount; unquantifiable amounts of sarin, botulinum toxin and a host of other biological poisons; an entire Scud missile programme.
Skim
Definition:
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.
(v. t.) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
(v. i.) To hasten along with superficial attention.
(v. i.) To put on the finishing coat of plaster.
(a.) Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Often, flavorings such as chocolate and strawberry and sugars are added to low-fat and skim milk to make up for the loss of taste when the fat is removed.
(2) Each malnourished child was given 1 pound of dried skimmed milk (DSM) per week.
(3) These results indicate that healthy VLBW infants maintain adequate growth and macronutrient balance for the first 2 months postnatally when fed mothers' milk fortified with additional skim and cream components.
(4) Neither extracellular nor cell-associated hydrolase profiles changed significantly when cells were grown in skim milk or mineral salts medium at either 5 or 20 degrees C. Similarly, added calcium did not seem required for synthesis of any of the enzymes.
(5) A MI individual then, appears able to absorb the monosaccharides of the prehydrolyzed milk and can, furthermore, tolerate the low-lactose skim milk without suffering from symptoms normally associated with lactose intolerance.
(6) Streptococci and lactobacilli were assayed for their proteolytic activity in pasteurised (95 degrees C for 30 min) fresh Friesian cows' skim milk incubated at 30 degrees C for 48 h. Lactobacilli were more proteolytic than the streptococci except S. faecalis subsp.
(7) The solubility of both free and low molecular weight ligand complexed calcium, magnesium, and zinc in skimmed human and bovine milks over intestinal luminal pH ranges (approximately 3-7) was measured using ultrafiltration techniques.
(8) Uptake with skimmed milk was the same as with whole milk and we suggested that the factor was not fat.
(9) With a dried skim milk extender, prefreeze and postfreeze motility was greater in samples containing 20% seminal plasma.
(10) Distribution of membrane in mature milks was: fat globules, 80%; skim milk, 20% (including fluff, 5%); and cells, less than 1%.
(11) The lipoprotein lipase and tributyrate hydrolysing activities were found to be similarly distributed in the fractions obtained when whole milk was separated into skim-milk and cream, and when the cream was washed and freed from lipid.
(12) Addition of dried skim milk or dried whey to the diet resulted in higher values (P less than .05) for DMD and ED as compared with the basal or corn-soy and lard diet.
(13) Recovery of vitamin D added to unfortified skim milk is 98%.
(14) A method is described for purification of sulfhydryl oxidase from bovine milk which consistently yields preparations with greater than 3000-fold purification over skim milk.
(15) Neutrophil morphology was altered by fat, skim, CL, CE, NO, and DP.
(16) Mourinho’s pre-match utterances are generally best skimmed for the odd word not specifically dedicated to inflammatory falsehoods, but Chelsea’s manager was correct to offer some wary respect for the Football League’s champion club and here, lining up in a tightly knit 4-4-2, Leicester were sharp in the tackle early on, and pacy on the break throughout.
(17) The activity was destroyed by heating to temperatures higher than 50 degrees, whereas the presence of skim milk during heating preserved the enzyme activity, at least, up to 70 degrees.
(18) In the department for calves being fed with fluid feed of a specialised enterprise for calf rearing the daily intake of fluid feed (skim milk improved with milk substitute), concentrated feed and hay of a total of 341 female animals and the daily intake of energy and protein was calculated thereof.
(19) In the second experiment the utilization of lysine (relative to free lysine) for weight gain, as measured in weaner pigs, was found to be 0.68, 0.73, 0.81, 0.86 and 1.00 for cottonseed meal 1, cottonseed meal 2, meat meal, sunflower meal and skim milk respectively.
(20) Everything started to unravel for Spurs a minute before half-time when Willian’s free-kick skimmed off Rose’s head, ricocheted off Dier and dropped invitingly for Terry.