shim
English
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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
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.
- 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.
Translations
thin piece of material used for alignment or support
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small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls
shallow plow used in tillage
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small metal device to pick a lock
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Verb
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.
- (computing, transitive) To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
Translations
adjust by using shims
Etymology 2
Noun
shim (plural shims)
- (informal, often derogatory) a person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits, also called a he-she; transsexual.
- 1998, Hobart Student Association, The Seneca review:
- He — or "Shim" (she/him), as film director John Waters called the actor Divine — was as much a paradoxical as a perverse fellow.
- 1995, The Advocate - May 30, 1995 - Page 11:
- "We call him shim— short for 'she-him.'
- 1998, Hobart Student Association, The Seneca review:
- (informal, often derogatory) hermaphrodite.
Translations
person characterised by male and female traits
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References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “shim”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ “shim”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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