skip
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
business
entertainment
knitting
lifestyle
manufacturing
media
music
printing
publishing
radio
textiles
video-games
Etymology: From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”).
Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.
Inflected forms:
form: skips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skipped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: skip
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: skip
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: skipped
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: skip
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: skippest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: skipped
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: skippedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: skips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skippeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: skipped
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: skip
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: skipped
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: skip
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: skipped
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: skip
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: skipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skips
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To move by hopping on alternate feet.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
gloss: To leap about lightly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.
The hosts maintained their discipline and shape, even threatening to grab a second goal on the break - left-back Dan Harding made a scintillating run, skipping past a few challenges before prodding a right-footed shot that did not match his build-up.
gloss: To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The rock will skip across the pond.
After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno - Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut - nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes.
gloss: To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.
gloss: To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My heart will skip a beat.
He skipped the second question and moved on.
I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.
1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
But they who have not this doubt, and have a mind to see the issue of the Theory, may skip these two Chapters, if they please, and proceed to the following
gloss: Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.
gloss: To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: to skip the country
a customer who skipped town without paying her hotel bill
I see ya' little speed boat head up our coast
She really want to skip town
Get back off me, beast off me
Get back you flea-infested mongrel
gloss: To leap lightly over.
pos: verb
examples: to skip the rope
gloss: To jump rope.
pos: verb
examples: The girls were skipping in the playground.
gloss: To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continuously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)
pos: verb
gloss: To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
pos: verb
gloss: To have insufficient ink transfer.
pos: verb
gloss: A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
pos: noun
gloss: A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
pos: noun
examples: Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips.
gloss: skywave propagation
pos: noun
gloss: A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: frameskip
glip
hit-skip
nonskipping
no-skip
outskip
overskip
skip a beat
skipable
skipathon
skip bleach
skip bomber
skip bombing
skip-care
skip-gram
skip-level
skip list
skip out
skippable
skippingly
skipping rope
skip printing
skip rope
skip school
skip-stop
skip the line
skip town
skiptrace
skip tracer
skip tracing
skipworthy
timeskip
unskip
unskipped
vice-skip
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