shim

1. A wedge.

   Keil

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

   Near-synonym: shimstock (uncountable)

   Unterlage, Abstandhalter, Abstandsblech

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

4. A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.

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

   Dietrich

6. A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.

7. (derogatory, informal, often)A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.

   Transsexueller, Transsexuelle, Transe

8. (derogatory, informal, often)A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.

1. To adjust the door, we use shims.

   deUm die Tür einzustellen, verwenden wir Beilagscheiben.

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2. NASA officials concluded the debris was likely a plastic separator, or shim, from the shuttle's ceramic tile heat shield.

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3. Though she was not on that team, Shim said through a translator, she certainly remembered the heartbreak of her countrywomen.

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