inside vs shim

inside

noun
  • The interior or inner part. 

  • The inside scoop; information known only to certain involved people. 

  • The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference. 

  • The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right. 

  • (in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts. 

adv
  • In or to prison. 

  • Intimately, secretly; without expressing what one is feeling or thinking. 

  • Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building. 

  • Indoors. 

adj
  • Legally married to or related to (e.g. born in wedlock to), and/or residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. 

  • Toward the batter as it crosses home plate. 

  • At or towards or the left-hand side of the road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right. 

  • Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary. 

  • Nearer to the interior or centre of something. 

  • Originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation. 

prep
  • Within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference. 

  • Within a period of time. 

shim

noun
  • A wedge. 

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

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

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

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

  • A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite. 

  • A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite. 

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

  • To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field, after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose. 

  • To adjust something by using shims. 

  • To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes. 

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