shim

Meaning of shim

noun
  1. A wedge.
  2. A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
  3. 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.
verb
  1. To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery.
  2. To adjust something by using shims.
  3. To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
noun
  1. A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits, also called a he-she; transsexual.
  2. Hermaphrodite.

Information about shim

  • The plural form of shim is: shims.
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Hyphenation of shim

shim

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • shim is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of shim

Hims, hims

Words that rhyme with shim

Chumashim, Hashim, Humashim, Kodashim, Midrashim, Nashim, kashim, midrashim, pashim, shamashim, shammashim, Ishim, Kaddishim, Qaddishim, kaddishim, kadishim, kiddushim

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