A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
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 wedge.
A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
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.
A sharp or tapering point.
A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
A spiral.
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
To furnish with a spire.
To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.