1
: a durable plain-woven usually cotton fabric for use in clothing, curtains, building, and industry
2
: a theater drop that appears opaque when a scene in front is lighted and transparent or translucent when a scene in back is lighted
3
: something likened to a theater scrim
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Wraps and flash material from structures (scrim) is captured and made into pellets that become WM residential waste holders.
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Candace Oehler, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Behind a gauzy scrim, most members of the ten-person cast pose in festive symmetry, carefully arranged around a living room glowing with a thousand holiday lights.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
In some ways, that’s a relief: Ross’ artistically careful filmmaking provides a refuge from all the suffering, a kind of translucent scrim that shields us from the worst.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 13 Dec. 2024
Please scan these journals and pull material for a scene in which a father and son confront a family secret …
The movement of handwritten pages across the scrim, pages and pages of journal entries.
—Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
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Candace Oehler, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Behind a gauzy scrim, most members of the ten-person cast pose in festive symmetry, carefully arranged around a living room glowing with a thousand holiday lights.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
In some ways, that’s a relief: Ross’ artistically careful filmmaking provides a refuge from all the suffering, a kind of translucent scrim that shields us from the worst.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 13 Dec. 2024
Please scan these journals and pull material for a scene in which a father and son confront a family secret …
The movement of handwritten pages across the scrim, pages and pages of journal entries.
—Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Scrim.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrim. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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