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Definition of 'skip'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) skip
to move in a light, springy manner by bounding forward with alternate hops on each foot.

2.  skip
to pass from one point, thing, etc., to another, disregarding or omitting what intervenes.

3.  skip
to go away hastily and secretly; flee without notice.

4.  skip
to be advanced two or more classes or grades at once.

5.  skip
to ricochet or bounce along a surface:
The stone skipped over the lake.

6. (v.t.) skip
to jump lightly over:
to skip a fence.

7.  skip
to pass over without reading, noting, acting on, etc.:
I skipped the long descriptions in the book.

8.  skip
to miss or omit (one of a repeated series of rhythmic actions):
My heart skipped a beat.

9.  skip
to be absent from; avoid attendance at:
to skip a party.

10.  skip
to advance (a person) by two or more classes or grades at once.

11.  skip
to be advanced beyond (a grade or class) in school.

12.  skip
to send (a missile) ricocheting along a surface.

13.  skip
to leave hastily and secretly; flee from (a place):
They skipped town.

14. (n.) skip
a skipping movement; a light jump or bounce.

15.  skip
a gait marked by such jumps.

16.  skip
a passing from one point or thing to another, with disregard of what intervenes.

17.  skip
an instance of skipping or a thing skipped.

18.  skip
a melodic interval greater than a second.

19. (n.) skip
the captain of a curling or bowling team.

20. (v.t.) skip
to serve as skip of (a curling or bowling team).

Etymology: (1820–30; short for skipper¹)

Definition of 'skip'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) skip
a gait in which steps and hops alternate

2. (verb) omission, skip
a mistake resulting from neglect

3. (verb) jump, pass over, skip, skip over
bypass
"He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"

4. (verb) cut, skip
intentionally fail to attend
"cut class"

5. (verb) hop, skip, hop-skip
jump lightly

6. (verb) decamp, skip, vamoose
leave suddenly
"She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town"

7. (verb) skip, bound off
bound off one point after another

8. (verb) skim, skip, skitter
cause to skip over a surface
"Skip a stone across the pond"

Definition of 'skip'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) skip
to not do
I skipped the second question.; She skipped class today.

2.  skip
to change quickly or confusingly from one thing to another
The article skipped around a lot.

3.  skip
to move ahead by hopping from one foot to the other
A girl skipped past.

4.  skip
***to jump over a rope as a game
***to skip rope

Definition of 'skip'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) skip
a basket. See Skep

2. (noun) skip
a basket on wheels, used in cotton factories

3. (noun) skip
an iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock

4. (noun) skip
a charge of sirup in the pans

5. (noun) skip
a beehive; a skep

6. (noun) skip
a light leap or bound

7. (noun) skip
the act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part

8. (noun) skip
a passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once

9. (verb) skip
to leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit

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

11. (verb) skip
to leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope

12. (verb) skip
to pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson

13. (verb) skip
to cause to skip; as, to skip a stone

Translation of 'skip'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to go along with a hop on each foot in turn The little girl skipped up the path.
Afrikaans: huppel	Arabic: يَقْفِز على القَدَمَيْن	Bulgarian: (под)скачам
Brazilian: saltitar	Czech: poskakovat	German: hüpfen
Danish: hoppe afsted	Greek: χοροπηδώ	Spanish: saltar
Estonian: keksima, hüplema	Farsi: جست وخيز كردن	Finnish: hypellä
French: sautiller	Hebrew: לְדָלֵג	Hindi: उछल-कूद करना
Croatian: skakutati, poskakivati	Hungarian: ugrándozik	Indonesian: melompat-lompat
Icelandic: hoppa	Italian: saltare, saltellare	Japanese: はね回る
Korean: 깡충깡충 뛰어가다	Lithuanian: šokinėti	Latvian: lēkāt; palēkties
Malay: meloncat-loncat	Dutch: huppelen	Norwegian: hoppe
Polish: skakać, podskakiwać	Persian: جست وخيز كردن	Pashto: په ټوپونو تيريدل، سر سري
Portuguese: saltitar	Romanian: a sălta	Russian: прыгать, скакать
Slovak: poskakovať, skákať	Slovenian: poskakovati	Serbian: preskočiti
Swedish: hoppa, skutta	Thai: กระโดด	Turkish: sekmek
Taiwanese: 跳	Ukrainian: стрибати, скакати	Urdu: اٹھلاتی چال چلنا
Vietnamese: nhảy	Chinese: 跳
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