Shim is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like wedge. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Shim in a sentence
Related words
Shim meaning
- A wedge.
- A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
- A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
Synonyms of Shim
Using Shim
- The main meaning on this page is: A wedge. | A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support. | A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
- Useful related words include: wedge.
- In the example corpus, shim often appears in combinations such as: shim is.
Context around Shim
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shim
- In this selection, "shim" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, considering, soyeon, recovery, followers, center and eun stand out and add context to how "shim" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and soyeon shim at the and but shim is worried. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shim" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shim
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Shim can be making such,considering shim followers on Instagram. (10 words)
But Shim is worried about the size of the problem. (10 words)
Still Shim is actually worried about how big is the problem. (11 words)
Li's co-authors on the study were UArizona researchers Melissa Curran and Ashley LeBaron in the Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, Joyce Serido at the University of Minnesota and Soyeon Shim at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. (40 words)
Shim YS, et al, Association of serum ferritin with insulin resistance, abdominal obesity, and metabolic syndrome in Korean adolescent and adults: the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2008-2011. (31 words)
Cell relay systems may also carry bitstream-based data such as PDH traffic, by breaking it into streams of cells, with a lightweight synchronization and clock recovery shim. (28 words)
Example sentences (11)
Shim can be making such,considering shim followers on Instagram.
Shim, center, punched out of the individual competition at the end of this episode.
The two FaceTimed the husband so Shim could say hi and then the woman asked to take a photo with her.
Li's co-authors on the study were UArizona researchers Melissa Curran and Ashley LeBaron in the Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, Joyce Serido at the University of Minnesota and Soyeon Shim at the University of Wisconsin—Madison.
But Shim is worried about the size of the problem.
Shim YS, et al, Association of serum ferritin with insulin resistance, abdominal obesity, and metabolic syndrome in Korean adolescent and adults: the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2008-2011.
Still Shim is actually worried about how big is the problem.
He tries to save his daughter Roo-Mi (Shim Eun-Kyung) after she gets involved in an unexpected accident.
Shim Suk-hee of South Korea was a three-time medalist at the Sochi Games but was eliminated Saturday after finishing third in her heat.
We don't plan to shim under those with a different engine.
Cell relay systems may also carry bitstream-based data such as PDH traffic, by breaking it into streams of cells, with a lightweight synchronization and clock recovery shim.
Common combinations with shim
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- shim is 2×