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n. A thin, often tapered piece of material, such as wood, stone, or metal, used to fill gaps, make something level, or adjust something to fit properly.

v. To fill in, level, or adjust by using shims or a shim.

n. A wedge.

n. A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.

n. A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.

n. A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.

n. A small metal device used to pick open a lock.

v. To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery

v. To adjust something by using shims

n. a person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits, also called a he-she; transsexual.

n. hermaphrodite.

n. A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds.

n. A thin piece of metal placed between two parts to make a fit.

n. A white spot, as a white streak on a horse's face.

n. An ignis fatuus.

Same as shime.

n. Broadly, in machinery, a thin slip (usually of metal, but often of other material) used to fill up space caused by wear, or placed between parts liable to wear, as under the cap of a pillow-block or journal-box.

n. In stone-working and quarrying, a plate used to fill out the space at the side of a jumper-hole, between it and a wedge used for separating a block of stone, or for contracting the space in fitting a lewis into the hole.

n. A shim-plow (which see, under plow).

To wedge up or fill out to a fair surface by inserting a thin wedge or piece of material.

n. An imperfect shingle, thicker at one side than the other; also, an imperfect stave for a bucket.

n. a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices

"Marlene was already flipping through the _American Heritage Dictionary_ -- she had brought it in a plastic shopping bag because of my previous day's challenge of "shim" -- and she triumphantly told me, holding the fat volume in my face, that no such word was listed in it."

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