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Definitions for skip
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. skipnoun

    a gait in which steps and hops alternate

  2. omission, skipverb

    a mistake resulting from neglect

  3. jump, pass over, skip, skip oververb

    bypass

    "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"

  4. cut, skipverb

    intentionally fail to attend

    "cut class"

  5. hop, skip, hop-skipverb

    jump lightly

  6. decamp, skip, vamooseverb

    leave suddenly

    "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town"

  7. skip, bound offverb

    bound off one point after another

  8. skim, skip, skitterverb

    cause to skip over a surface

    "Skip a stone across the pond"

Wiktionary

  1. skipnoun

    A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.

  2. skipverb

    To move by hopping on alternate feet.

    She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.

  3. skipverb

    To leap about lightly.

  4. skip

    To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

    The rock will skip across the pond.

  5. skip

    To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.

    I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.

  6. skip

    To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).

  7. skip

    To place an item in a skip.

  8. skip

    Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).

    Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.

  9. skip

    To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country.

  10. skip

    To jump rope.

  11. skipnoun

    A large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents. See also skep.

  12. skipnoun

    A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.

  13. skipnoun

    Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.

  14. skipnoun

    The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.

  15. skipnoun

    An Australian person of Anglo-Celtic descent.

    2001: Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she? Barber: She is Australian. Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip. You little radical you. uE000149697uE001 Mary Coustas as her character Effie, TV series Effie: Just Quietly, 2001, episode Nearest and Dearest

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Skipnoun

    A light leap or bound.

    Etymology: from the verb.

    He looked very curiously upon himself, sometimes fetching a little skip, as if he had said his strength had not yet forsaken him. Philip Sidney.

    You will make so large a skip as to cast yourself from the land into the water. Henry More, Antidote against Atheism.

  2. To Skipverb

    To miss; to pass.

    Etymology: esquirer, French.

    Let not thy sword skip one:
    Pity not honour’d age for his white beard;
    He is an usurer. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.

    Although to engage very far in such a metaphysical speculation were unfit, when I only endeavour to explicate fluidity, yet we dare not quite skip it over, lest we be accused of overseeing it. Boyle.

    They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters, and proceed to the following. Burnet.

  3. To SKIPverb

    Etymology: squittire, Italian; esquirer, French. I know not whether it may not come from scape.

    Was not Israel a derision unto thee? Was he found among thieves? For since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. Jer. xlviii. 27.

    The queen, bound with love’s powerful’st charm,
    Sat with Pigwiggen arm in arm:
    Her merry maids, that thought no harm,
    About the room were skipping. Michael Drayton.

    At spur or switch no more he skipt,
    Or mended pace, than Spaniard whipt. Hudibras.

    The earth-born race
    O’er ev’ry hill and verdant pasture stray,
    Skip o’er the lawns, and by the rivers play. Richard Blackmore.

    John skipped from room to room, ran up stairs and down stairs, peeping into every cranny. John Arbuthnot, Hist. of J. Bull.

    Thus each hand promotes the pleasing pain,
    And quick sensations skip from vein to vein. Alexander Pope, Dunciad.

    The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day,
    Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Alexander Pope.

    Pope Pius II. was wont to say, that the former popes did wisely to set the lawyers a-work to debate, whether the donation of Constantine the Great to Sylvester of St. Peter’s patrimony were good or valid in law or no; the better to skip over the matter in fact, whether there was ever any such thing at all or no. Francis Bacon, Apophthegms.

    A gentleman made it a rule, in reading, to skip over all sentences where he spied a note of admiration at the end. Jonathan Swift.

Wikipedia

  1. SKIP

    SKIP is an acronym for Skeletal muscle and kidney enriched inositol phosphatase, which is a human gene.

ChatGPT

  1. skip

    Skip refers to moving along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce. It could also indicate passing over or omitting a part, stage, or degree in a process or to evade or ignore something. Additionally, in the context of computer science or technology, skip may denote moving to the next data or operation without performing or considering the present one.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Skipnoun

    a basket. See Skep

  2. Skipnoun

    a basket on wheels, used in cotton factories

  3. Skipnoun

    an iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock

  4. Skipnoun

    a charge of sirup in the pans

  5. Skipnoun

    a beehive; a skep

  6. Skipverb

    to leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit

  7. Skipverb

    fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over

  8. Skipverb

    to leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope

  9. Skipverb

    to pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson

  10. Skipverb

    to cause to skip; as, to skip a stone

  11. Skipnoun

    a light leap or bound

  12. Skipnoun

    the act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part

  13. Skipnoun

    a passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once

  14. Etymology: [See Skep.]

Wikidata

  1. Skip

    A skip is a large open-topped waste container designed for loading onto a special type of lorry. Instead of being emptied into a garbage truck on site, as a wheely bin is, a skip is removed, or replaced by an empty skip, and then tipped at a landfill site or transfer station. Typically skip bins have a distinctive shape, the longitudinal cross-section of the skip bin looks like one or two trapezoids sat one on top of the other. The lower trapezoid has the smaller edge at the bottom of the skip bin, and a longer edge at the top. Where there is an upper trapezoid, it has the smaller edge at the top. At either end the skip bin there is a sloping floor or wall. On either side of the skip bin there is usually two lugs onto which chains can be attached. It is using the chains attached to the lug that allows the heavy skip bin to be lifted on to, or off of a lorry.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Skip

    skip, v.i. to leap: to bound lightly and joyfully: to pass over.—v.t. to leap over: to omit:—pr.p. skip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. skipped.—n. a light leap: a bound: the omission of a part: the captain of a side at bowls and curling: a college servant.—ns. Skip′jack, an impudent fellow: the blue-fish, saurel, &c.; Skip′-ken′nel, one who has to jump the gutters, a lackey; Skip′per, one who skips: a dancer: (Shak.) a young thoughtless person: a hesperian butterfly.—adj. Skip′ping, flighty, giddy.—adv. Skip′pingly, in a skipping manner: by skips or leaps.—n. Skip′ping-rope, a rope used in skipping. [Either Celt., according to Skeat, from Ir. sgiob, to snatch, Gael. sgiab, to move suddenly, W. ysgipio, to snatch away; or Teut., conn. with Ice. skopa, to run.]

  2. Skip

    skip, n. an iron box for raising ore running between guides, or in inclined shafts fitted with wheels to run on a track, a mine-truck.

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  1. pisk

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of skip in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of skip in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of skip in a Sentence

  1. Stephanie Grisham:

    Did you know that every 15 minutes a baby is born with NAS ? Maybe you'd like to talk about the 160,000 kids who skip school every day for fear of being bullied, or that 280,000 students are physically attacked in schools every month, seems kind of silly to worry about what channel Melania Trump watches on TV( any channel Melania Trump wants btw) or if Melania Trump heard some recording on the news.

  2. Carlos Fleites:

    They have got it down to a science ... When they get caught they know they can skip bail and get away to Cuba. It's their business model.

  3. Jonas Oransky:

    It does n’t matter necessarily if people are selling at scale, it’s not that all sellers are dangerous or devious, but buyers who know that they can skip the background check can look for an unlicensed seller.

  4. Stephanie Grisham:

    Did you know that every 15 minutes a baby is born with NAS ? Maybe you'd like to talk about the 160,000 kids who skip school every day for fear of being bullied, or that 280,000 students are physically attacked in schools every month, seems kind of silly to worry about what channel she watches on TV( any channel she wants btw) or if she heard some recording on the news.

  5. Donald Gliniewicz:

    I know they are doing their hardest to get to the bottom of this, i definitely do not want them to speed through the investigation and skip over important details.

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  • hopsat, zasklít, poskakovat, vynechat, přeskočit, vypustitCzech
  • springeDanish
  • weglassen, schwänzen, hüpfen, überspringenGerman
  • χοροπηδώGreek
  • saltear, saltarSpanish
  • olla poissa, jättää väliin, kimmota, jätelava, kapteeni, kimpoilla, hypähdellä, hyppely, hypellä, roskalava, kippari, lintsata, sivuuttaa, hyppiäFinnish
  • sauter, benne, sautillerFrench
  • leumScottish Gaelic
  • contedor, colector do lixoGalician
  • छोड़Hindi
  • ÁtugraniHungarian
  • melewatkanIndonesian
  • saltare, Salta, saltellareItalian
  • לדלגHebrew
  • はね回るJapanese
  • 건너 뛰기Korean
  • skip, sallito, salitoLatin
  • piupiu, piuMāori
  • over, droppe, skulke, utelate, hoppeNorwegian
  • hoppen, huppelen, overslaan, hinkelenDutch
  • utelate, droppe, skulke, hoppe, overNorwegian Nynorsk
  • kosz na śmieciPolish
  • caçamba de entulho, saltitar, caçambaPortuguese
  • прогуля́ть, прогу́ливать, пропускать, пропуска́ть, перескакивать, пропусти́тьRussian
  • baja, kontejner za otpadSerbo-Croatian
  • skip, hoppa, skippa, hoppa över, skipper, container, skuttaSwedish
  • kaçmak, sekmek, atlamakTurkish
  • سکپUrdu

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