shim
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ʃɪm/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪm
Etymology 1
[edit]Unknown; from Kent.[1][2] 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.
Noun
[edit]shim (plural shims)
- A wedge.
- A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
- 2016 January 30, Jeff Howell, “Swinging doors: it's not open and shut”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property), page 15:
- The second adjustment [to a door that keeps swinging open] will require the screws to be loosened, and a shim or packing piece pushed behind the hinge to bring it into line.
- (computing) A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
- 2010, Russell Smith, Least Privilege Security for Windows 7, Vista and XP:
- Shims intercept Win32 API calls from legacy applications, as defined by system administrators, and then modify the call before passing the code to Windows for execution.
- A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
- A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
- Synonym: slim jim
Translations
[edit]thin piece of material used for alignment or support
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small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls
Verb
[edit]shim (third-person singular simple present shims, present participle shimming, simple past and past participle shimmed)
- To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery.
- To adjust something by using shims.
- To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field, after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose.
- (computing, transitive) To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
Translations
[edit]adjust by using shims
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]shim (plural shims)
- (informal, often derogatory) A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
- Synonym: (derogatory) he-she
- 1998, The Seneca review, Hobart Student Association:
- He — or "Shim" (she/him), as film director John Waters called the actor Divine — was as much a paradoxical as a perverse fellow.
- 1995 May 30, The Advocate, page 11:
- "We call him shim— short for 'she-him.'
- (informal, often derogatory) A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
- 2009, Laurie Notaro, The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 89:
- […] that I was a hermaphrodite, and that things would probably be getting much, much worse as other "parts" of me began to grow manly and I made the full transformation into a "shim."
Translations
[edit]transsexual person
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “shim”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ “shim”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
See also
[edit]- shim-pua marriage (etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams
[edit]Kanuri
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[edit]shim
Uzbek
[edit]Noun
[edit]shim (plural shimlar)
Declension
[edit]Declension of shim
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | shim | shimlar |
| genitive | shimning | shimlarning |
| dative | shimga | shimlarga |
| definite accusative | shimni | shimlarni |
| locative | shimda | shimlarda |
| ablative | shimdan | shimlardan |
| similative | shimdek | shimlardek |
Possessive forms of shim
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