shim
noun
- in computing, a small library to alter API calls to maintain compatibility
verb
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Pronunciation: /ʃɪm/
name
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 심(沈) (Sim).
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: Blend of she + him.
- A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
“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.'”
- A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
“[…] 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."”
verb
Etymology: Unknown; 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.
- To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.
- To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
- To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
- To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.