Shim

Definitions

1. A wedge.
2. A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
   derogatory, informal, often
3. A surname.
4. Abbreviation of scanning helium ion microscope.
   abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
5. A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
6. A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
   derogatory, informal, often
7. A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
8. A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
9. A small metal device used to pick open a lock.

Equivalents

8 more languages

العربيةالحشوة

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Bosanskiклин

Suomitäytelevy

Hrvatskiклин

Bahasa Melayupenyendalsendalsesendalsyim+ 1 more

Русскийрегулировочная прокладка

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Examples

“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.”

“Shims intercept Win⟳32 API calls from legacy applications, as defined by system administrators, and then modify⟳ the call⟳ before passing the code to Windows for execution.”

“He — or "Shim" (she/him), as film director John Waters called the actor Divine — was as much a paradoxical as a perverse fellow.”

“"We call⟳ him shim— short for 'she-him.'”

“Yes Maam, or Sir or just what / how do you address a shim?”

“[…] 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."”

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