Skip
[skɪp]
Definition
(noun.) a gait in which steps and hops alternate.
(verb.) bound off one point after another.
Edited by Guthrie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A basket. See Skep.
(n.) A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
(n.) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
(n.) A charge of sirup in the pans.
(n.) A beehive; a skep.
(v. i.) To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit.
(v. i.) Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.
(v. t.) To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
(v. t.) To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.
(v. t.) To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.
(n.) A light leap or bound.
(n.) The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
(n.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
Typed by Andy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Leap, jump, bound, spring, hop, CAPER.
v. a. Disregard, omit, neglect, miss, skip over, pass without notice.
n. Leap, jump, bound, spring, hop, CAPER.
Edited by Ervin
Definition
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.
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.
Edited by Hardy
Examples
- I came here to moralize, not to hear things that make me skip to think of. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- If you are not, skip this bit, and thank God you have got something in the way of a defence between your hair-brush and your head. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- That was a catch phrase he would skip. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Fust I'll tie the rope t' th' mast an' then t' th' beach, an' you two kin skip along like monkeys. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Always running about and screeching, always playing and fighting, always skip-skip-skipping on the pavement and chalking it for their games! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- When the center of the paper is reached, after six rows have been stuck, the machine automatically spaces the paper so as to skip the space used for the brand name. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Let us skip over the interval in the history of her downward progress. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- How Beth got excited, and skipped and sang with joy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Thus assisted, she skipped down with much agility, and began to tie her double chin into her bonnet. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I watched my opportunity and skipped across the road and behind the south wall. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Cruel charmer,' and Mr. Jingle skipped playfully up to the spinster aunt, imprinted a chaste kiss upon her lips, and danced out of the room. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Andrews skipped from under; he obeyed orders; I did not. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Here, he skipped from his right leg on to his left. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Here, he skipped from his left leg on to his right. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Always running about and screeching, always playing and fighting, always skip-skip-skipping on the pavement and chalking it for their games! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Amelia should be a small, light, girlish, skipping figure. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Tippins all abroad about the legs, and seeking to express that those unsteady articles are only skipping in their native buoyancy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He came skipping towards me in great glee. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It is all over now; but when I look back, the idea of these venerable fossils skipping forth on a six months' picnic, seems exquisitely refreshing. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She skips; she runs along regular enough till half-past eleven, and then, all of a sudden, she lets down. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The rolls were well named, for with ear-splitting noise they broke up in a few seconds the great pieces of rock tossed in from the skips. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When the skips arrived at the giant rolls, their contents were dumped automatically into a superimposed hopper. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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