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 tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
A small light.
A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).
Someone who works with tape or tapes.
A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
One who operates a tape machine.
A slender wax candle.
Tapered; narrowing to a point.
To diminish gradually.
To become thinner or narrower at one end.
To make thinner or narrower at one end.
(of a central bank) To tighten monetary policy.