"shim" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as a noun to refer to a thin and narrow piece of material inserted between two objects, usually to make them fit together more tightly or evenly. As an example, you could say: "I used a shim to level the kitchen countertops."
For vehicles recalled because the pedal could stick or become hard to operate, technicians must insert a small steel shim into the pedal assembly.
Workers at the dealership remove the pedal assembly, take measurements to determine the proper thickness, install the shim, reattach the pedal and take the car on a two-mile test drive, he said.
But unlike the more renowned war correspondents of those years, including his friend Robert Capa, Chim (pronounced shim) focused not on combat and carnage but on people behind the scenes of the theaters of war, the nonmilitary folk going about their business and doing their best to survive.
In transient without scram, the assumed event is an insertion of positive reactivity for example, through an undesired withdrawal of the shim rods.
This year, the lessons, and the bands, will address Lindy, shim sham, tango, salsa, salsa dura (serious salsa), the hustle, ballroom, swing, jitterbug, hand dancing, and collegiate shag.
A shim, a new timing belt and a pulley should straighten things out.
Ms. Szymborska (pronounced vees-WAH-vah shim-BOR-ska) had a relatively small body of work when she received the Nobel, the fifth Polish or Polish-born writer to have done so since the prize was created in 1901.
She comes off best thanks to innovative use of a steam-iron, but has to call on members of the Shim-Sham-Shimmy.
The Shim-Sham-Shimmy transvestite club of Wapping is back in business with this third book of Dreda Say Mitchell's series, though the East End is changing: art galleries are springing up in Bethnal Green.
HFT now accounts for as much as half of all stockmarket trading in America; its rise has coincided with a marked narrowing of the bid-ask spread.But Eric Budish, Peter Cramton and John Shim argue that HFT can sap liquidity as well as create it.
And Vicky McClure's always busy... ...... McClure (along with Andrew Shim) goes way back with Meadows – plucked as a 15-year-old from Nottingham's Television Workshop to play the sister of the title character his 1999 film A Room for Romeo Brass.
