Skipt vs. Skip

(obsolete) skip

(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.

Example: ‘She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.’;

(intransitive) To leap about lightly.

(intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

Example: ‘The rock will skip across the pond.’;

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

Example: ‘I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.’;

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

Example: ‘My heart will skip a beat.’; ‘I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.’;

To place an item in a skip.

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

Example: ‘Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.’;

To leave

Example: ‘to skip the country’;

To leap lightly over.

Example: ‘to skip the rope’;

To jump rope.

Example: ‘The girls were skipping in the playground.’;

A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.

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

(music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.

(radio) skywave propagation

A basket. See Skep.

A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.

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

A charge of sirup in the pans.

A beehive; a skep.

A light leap or bound.

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

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

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

Example: ‘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.’;

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

To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.

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

Example: ‘They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters.’;

To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.

a gait in which steps and hops alternate

a mistake resulting from neglect

bypass;

Example: ‘He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible’;

intentionally fail to attend;

Example: ‘cut class’;

jump lightly

leave suddenly;

Example: ‘She persuaded him to decamp’; ‘skip town’;

bound off one point after another

cause to skip over a surface;

Example: ‘Skip a stone across the pond’;

move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce

Example: ‘she began to skip down the path’;

jump over a rope which is held at both ends by oneself or two other people and turned repeatedly over the head and under the feet, as a game or for exercise

Example: ‘training was centred on running and skipping’;

jump over (a rope that is being turned)

Example: ‘the younger girls had been skipping rope’;

jump lightly over

Example: ‘the children used to skip the puddles’;

omit (part of a book that one is reading, or a stage in a sequence that one is following)

Example: ‘the video manual allows the viewer to skip sections he's not interested in’;

move quickly and in an unmethodical way from one point or subject to another

Example: ‘Marian skipped half-heartedly through the book’;

fail to attend or deal with as appropriate; miss

Example: ‘try not to skip breakfast’; ‘I wanted to skip my English lesson to visit my mother’;

abandon an undertaking, conversation, or activity

Example: ‘after several wrong turns in our journey, we almost decided to skip it’;

run away; disappear

Example: ‘I'm not giving them a chance to skip off again’;

depart quickly and secretly from

Example: ‘she skipped her home amid rumours of a romance’;

throw (a stone) so that it ricochets off the surface of water

Example: ‘they skipped stones across the creek’;

act as skip of (a side)

Example: ‘they lost to another Stranraer team, skipped by Peter Wilson’;

a light, bouncing step; a skipping movement

Example: ‘he moved with a strange, dancing skip’;

an act of passing over part of a sequence of data or instructions.

a person who is missing, especially one who has defaulted on a debt.

a large transportable open-topped container for building and other refuse

Example: ‘I've salvaged a carpet from a skip’;

a cage or bucket in which men or materials are lowered and raised in mines and quarries.

variant spelling of skep

the captain or director of a side at bowls or curling.