Definition of [skip in English English dictionary
- hit-skip
- To flee from the site of a motor vehicle accident without reporting it to the police or emergency services
- hop, skip, and a jump
- a short distance
It's just a hop, skip, and a jump from the library.
- skip
- The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks
- skip
- Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority
- skip
- 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. — Mary Coustas as her character Effie, TV series Effie: Just Quietly, 2001, episode Nearest and Dearest.
- skip
- To move by hopping on alternate feet
She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
- 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.
- 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.
- skip
- To leap about lightly
- skip
- To place an item in a skip
- skip
- To omit or disregard (some item or stage)
I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.
- skip
- To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface
The rock will skip across the pond.
- skip
- To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country
Get back you flea infested mongrel.
- skip
- A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock
- skip
- A leaping, jumping or skipping movement
- skip
- An open-topped rubbish bin, ranging in size from perhaps 1.5x1.5 metres up to 6x3 metres, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents. See also skep
- skip
- To jump rope
- skip a beat
- To momentarily falter
- skip a beat
- To experience a strong emotion
- skip a beat
- To miss a beat
- skip car
- A small cart used to carry iron ore, coke, or limestone, inside a blast furnace. It travels through the furnaces on a skip hoist
- skip cars
- plural form of skip car
- skip hoist
- An inclined ramp used to transport skip cars carrying iron ore, coke, or limestone, inside a blast furnace
- skip hoists
- plural form of skip hoist
- skip out
- To shirk; to avoid attending or to leave early, especially without permission
He has a class on Thursday afternoons, but he skipped out this week.
- skip rope
- The rope used in this activity
- skip rope
- To jump over a rope, both of whose ends are held by the jumper or by two others, while the rope is moved under the jumper's feet in a continual rhythm; to play the game of jump rope or exercise by jumping rope
- skip tracer
- A private investigator or private detective who specializes in finding people who have attempted to disappear
- vice-skip
- The player who throws the fifth and sixth rocks for a team
- skip town
- (Ev ile ilgili) 1. To quickly leave a city/neighborhood when confronted with a hostile situation. 2. To avoid a rival gang or enemy by leaving a city/neighborhood unannounced. 3. To move to another city/neighborhood when your house/crib gets shot up by a rival gang
- skip
- {n} a light leap
- skip
- {v} to leap, bound, pass
- heart skip a beat
- (deyim) The heart leaves out or seems to leave out a beat; the heart beats hard or leaps from excitement or strong feeling. Often considered trite. : When Paul saw the bear standing in front of him, his heart skipped a beat
- heart skip a beat
- (deyim) To be startled or excited from surprise, joy. or fright: When Linda was told that she had won, her heart missed a beat
- skip hoist
- A skip hoist is an inclined ramp used to transport skip cars carrying iron ore, coke, or limestone, inside a blast furnace
- skip list
- (Bilgisayar) A skip list is a data structure for storing a sorted list of items, using a hierarchy of linked lists that connect increasingly sparse subsequences of the items. These auxiliary lists allow item lookup with efficiency comparable to balanced binary search trees (that is, with number of probes proportional to log n instead of n)
- skip over
- Bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" (synonym) jump, pass over, skip
- skip
- A beehive; a skep
- skip
- To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson
- skip
- the player who holds the broom as a target for shots by the other three players Skips are also the team strategists and must study, or read, the ice; anticipate the amount of curl, and then call the shots Skips usually throw the last two rocks of each end
- skip
- the ability of radio waves to reflect off the ionosphere
- skip
- A container to haul rock from a mine
- skip
- A container used in the mine shaft to vertically transport the ore up the mine shaft to the surface
- skip
- jump lightly
- skip
- cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"
- skip
- An atmospheric phenomenon which occasionally allows RF transmissions to be received at unexpectedly great distances, usually for only brief periods of time
- skip
- A shorthand for "Replace With Nothing" Example: "Pass the Axle, Skip the third part"
- skip
- The team captain, who plans strategy, holds the broom as a target for shots by the other three players, and usually throws the last two stones of each end
- skip
- When a CD player quickly advances up to the start of the track (e g , I like the skip feature when I get a new CD and want to check it out fast )
- skip
- A guided steel hoppit used in vertical or inclined shafts for winding coal or mineral It can also be adapted to carry people
- skip
- To omit or disregard intermediate items or stages
- skip
- To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope
- skip
- A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories
- skip
- leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town"
- skip
- a gait in which steps and hops alternate bound off one point after another
- skip
- Simple Key management for Internet Protocols, an alternative to IKE developed by Sun and being marketed by their Internet Commerce Group
- skip
- SKIP, a message type in OLDI context
- skip
- A backup level in which files are skipped and not backed up
- skip
- A skip is a large, open, metal container which is used to hold and take away large unwanted items and rubbish
- skip
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part
- skip
- If you skip along, you move almost as if you are dancing, with a series of little jumps from one foot to the other. They saw the man with a little girl skipping along behind him She was skipping to keep up with him. Skip is also a noun. The boxer gave a little skip as he came out of his corner
- skip
- a mistake resulting from neglect
- skip
- a signal route from the transmitter up to the ionosphere and back down to the earth
- skip
- An Australian person of Anglo-Celtic descent. Used by people of southern European descent (those who the "skips" in turn call "wogs"), not used by Anglo Australians themselves. Usually taken to be from Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and not of itself insulting (though might be used as such)
- skip
- If you skip or skip over a part of something you are reading or a story you are telling, you miss it out or pass over it quickly and move on to something else. You might want to skip the exercises in this chapter She reinvented her own life story, skipping over the war years when she had a German lover
- skip
- container used to hoist rock in shafts
- skip
- To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; often followed by over
- skip
- bound off one point after another
- skip
- The user can skip to the next message by tapping SKIP Multiple taps of SKIP will allow the user to step forward through messages all the way to the last message
- skip
- intentionally fail to attend; "cut class"
- skip
- Captain, pilot with the ECC Rangers assigned to earth security
- skip
- The captain of the team, often plays last two stones of a team in an end
- skip
- An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock
- skip
- Refers to frame processing See drop
- skip
- To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; commonly implying a sportive spirit
- skip
- {f} move forward in a series of light jumps; leap lightly; pass over; leave out, exclude, omit; leave, flee, escape (Informal); fail to attend (school, etc.)
- skip
- A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once
- skip
- To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone
- skip
- Melodic movement of more than one whole step
- skip
- {i} act of skipping; bounce, spring, jump; act of passing over something, omission, exclusion
- skip
- Fig
- skip
- When someone skips, they jump up and down over a rope which they or two other people are holding at each end and turning round and round. In American English, you say that someone skips rope. Outside, children were skipping and singing a rhyme They skip rope and play catch, waiting for the bell. + skipping skip·ping Skipping is one of the most enjoyable aerobic activities
- skip
- Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship
- skip
- bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"
- skip
- The player who determines the strategy, reads the ice and directs play for his team Generally the skip delivers the last pair of stones for his team in each end
- skip
- A basket
- skip
- If you skip something that you usually do or something that most people do, you decide not to do it. It is important not to skip meals Her daughter started skipping school. = miss
- skip
- a gait in which steps and hops alternate
- skip
- Simple Key Management Protocol (SKIP) is an authentication/encryption system that secures the network at the IP packet level
- skip
- If you skip from one subject or activity to another, you move quickly from one to the other although there is no obvious connection between them. She kept up a continuous chatter, skipping from one subject to the next. = jump
- skip
- Simple Key Internet Protocol (encryption)
- skip
- A charge of sirup in the pans
- skip
- A light leap or bound
- skip a grade
- advance two levels in school, be promoted two classes (completely bypassing one year of school)
- skip bail
- escape while released on bond
- skip distance
- the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere
- skip distance
- The smallest separation between a transmitter and a receiver that permits radio signals of a specific frequency to travel from one to the other by reflection from the ionosphere
- skip lessons
- skip school, be truant from school, be absent from school without permission
- skip out
- escape, leave, go away
- skip over
- bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"
- skip over
- {f} evade, avoid, bypass
- skip school
- be truant from school, fail to attend school without permission, play "hooky
- skip town
- disappear without notifying anyone (idiom)
- skip-bomb
- attack with delayed release bombs