shim

noun · verbA1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

shims

1.
A wedge.
2.
A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
Near-synonym: shimstock (uncountable)
Đồng nghĩa: shimstock
3.
(computing) A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
4.
A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
5.
A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
Đồng nghĩa: slim jim
6.
(crime) A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
Đồng nghĩa: shimmer
7.
(derogatory, informal, often)(informal, often derogatory) A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
Đồng nghĩa: he-she
8.
(derogatory, informal, often)(informal, often derogatory) A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

shims

V_ing/Gerund

shimming

V_ed/pp

shimmed

1.
(ambitransitive)To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.
2.
To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
3.
(transitive)(computing, transitive) To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
4.
(ambitransitive)To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

shimstockslim jimshimmerhe-she

Cùng gốc / liên quan

shimlessshis

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Nguồn gốc từ

; 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.