Crossword clues for shim
shim
- Gap-filling wedge
- Carpentry leveler
- Wood wedge
- Fix for a wobbly table, perhaps
- Wood piece
- Wobbly table stabilizer
- Wedge of wood or metal
- Sofa leveler
- Furniture leveler
- Crevice filler
- Carpentry wedge
- Wooden gap-filler
- Wedge, of a sort
- Wedge-shaped leveling piece
- Wedge used for leveling
- Wedge for filling a gap
- Wedge filling a gap
- Tapered slat for leveling
- Table evener
- One you can level with
- Mason's gap filler
- Leveling or support piece
- It takes up space
- It just fills up space
- Handyman's spacer
- Gap filler
- Furniture-leg leveler
- Doorstop, often
- Door stop, essentially
- Carpenter's leveling device
- Carpenter's level
- Wooden wedge
- Leveling wedge
- Mason's wedge
- Thin wedge of wood
- Carpenter's leveler
- Machine wedge
- Slender wedge
- Table leveler
- It keeps things on the level
- One just filling up space
- Thin wedge for leveling
- Leveler
- Carpentry spacer
- A thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
- Builder's wedge-shaped piece
- Thin strip of wood
- Wedge-shaped insert
- A leveler
- Wedge-shaped piece of wood
- Filler of a sort
- Alignment piece
- Masonry wedge
- Space filler
- Thin slip of wood
- Wedge of a sort
- Carpenter's wedge
- Thin strip
- Thin piece of wood
- Adjust with a wedge
- Leveling piece
- Leveling device
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shim \Shim\, n.
A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds.
(Mach.) A thin piece of metal placed between two parts to make a fit.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1723, a Kentish word of unknown origin. Originally a piece of iron fitted to a plow for scraping soil; meaning "thin slip of wood to fill up a space or raise a level" is from 1860.
"to wedge up a surface by means of a shim," 1877, from shim (n.). Related: Shimmed; shimming.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A wedge. 2 A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support. 3 (context computing English) A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes. 4 A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds. 5 A small metal device used to pick open a lock. vb. 1 To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery. 2 To adjust something by using shims. 3 (cx computing transitive English) To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context informal often derogatory English) a person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits, also called a he-she; transsexual. 2 (context informal often derogatory English) hermaphrodite.
WordNet
Wikipedia
In computer programming, a shim is a small library that transparently intercepts API calls and changes the arguments passed, handles the operation itself, or redirects the operation elsewhere. Shims can be used to support an old API in a newer environment, or a new API in an older environment. Shims can also be used for running programs on different software platforms than they were developed for.
Shims for older APIs typically come about when the behavior of an API changes, thereby causing compatibility issues for older applications which still rely on the older functionality; in such cases, the older API can still be supported by a thin compatibility layer on top of the newer code. Shims for newer APIs are defined as: "a shim is a library that brings a new API to an older environment, using only the means of that environment."
A shim is a thin and often tapered or wedged piece of material, used to fill small gaps or spaces between objects. Shims are typically used in order to support, adjust for better fit, or provide a level surface. Shims may also be used as spacers to fill gaps between parts subject to wear.
SHIM (born Shimrit Ovadia, July 23, 1983) is an independent Israeli singer-songwriter, musician and artist which has been internationally and domestically active since 2008.
Amongst multiple shows and concerts, her artistic engagements include the Liverpool folk scene, performances in Israel with high involvement in regards to the Tel Aviv musical performance scene, 2012 Reeperbahn festival in Germany, various other festivals and special events. A frequent participant in local media such as show and concerts coverages. Her current band consists of a classical formation of lead, rhythm, bass guitars and drums with a routine presence of keyboard, accordion, harmonica and from time to time other instruments such as banjo and strings.
Shim's album debut and related activities gained media coverage. Notable coverage was reported by Time Out, BalconyTV, Israel's popular news website Ynet, Walla!, and acclaimed Israeli radio presenter Yoav Kutner.
She has written, composed and produced all of her music.
A shim is a device used to adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field. Shims received their name from the purely mechanical shims used to adjust position and parallelity of the pole faces of an electromagnet. Coils used to adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field by changing the current flowing through it were called "electrical current shims" because of their similar function.
A shim is a tool that is used to bypass padlocks. It works by retracting the spring-loaded catch that restrains the shackle. Like other types of lockpicks, shims can be professionally made or improvised out of easily available materials like aluminum cans.
Higher security padlocks typically use techniques that make shimming impossible. The most common being the use of ball bearings instead of a spring-loaded catch, noticeable because the indentations on the shackle are round instead of wedge-shaped.
Category:Locksmithing
Shim is the surname of the following people
- Andrew Shim (born 1983), American-born English actor
- Cathy Shim (born 1980), Korean-American actress and film producer
- Meleana Shim (born 1991), American soccer midfielder
- Serena Shim (1985–2014), American journalist of Lebanese descent
- Shauna Shim (born 1979), American-born British actress
Usage examples of "shim".
Shim of Seant went down with an arrow through the throat, and he was dead before they turned him over.
Big Likim, the brasshide, would need a new dragonboy when this was over, and little Shim would never see his beloved hills of Seant again.
Astoria looked critically along the two rails, one well set nearly flush in concrete, the other standing above the trench on its shims.
Shim and me, but by you folks with the titles and the swords and the responsibilities, eh, Father?
He dropped five tongue depressors onto the pile on the shim mering fabric of the medical diagnostic bed, and in his most authoritative voice, he said, 'Tll see your five.
Using blades of grass and twigs from the lawn as shims, she finally got the bowl exactly level and perfectly full, so that the water in the basin was poised to brim over, held in place all the way around by surface tension alone.
And still and all at that time of the dynast days of old konning Soteric Sulkinbored and Bargomuster Bart, when they struck coil and shock haunts, in old Hungerford-on-Mudway, where first I met thee oldpoetryck flied from may and the Finnan haddies and the Noal Sharks and the muckstails turtles like an acoustic pottish and the griesouper bullyum and how he poled him up his boccat of vuotar and got big buzz for his name in the airweek's honours from home, colonies and empire, they were always with assisting grace, thinking (up) and not forgetting about shims and shawls week, in auld land syne (up) their four hosenbands, that were four (up) beautiful sister misters, now happily married, unto old Gallstonebelly, and there they were always counting and contradicting every night .
He shimmed the blade behind the marble plaque, moved it slowly along all four edges, then stuck the crowbar into the newly created joint and gave a sharp tug.
The dwarf did get a hand off his club fast enough to tap the bottle over him, though, and he spun about immediately and shimmed the slow-moving missile with his club, creating a small fireball and showering the approaching assassin with glass shards and flaming liquid.