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SKIP

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Irregular inflected forms: skipped    , skipping   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mistake resulting from neglect

Synonyms:

omission; skip

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("skip" is a kind of...):

error; fault; mistake (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "skip"):

failure (an unexpected omission)

Derivation:

skip (intentionally fail to attend)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A gait in which steps and hops alternate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("skip" is a kind of...):

gait (a person's manner of walking)

Derivation:

skip (jump lightly)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bypass

Example:

He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible

Synonyms:

jump; pass over; skip; skip over

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "skip" is one way to...):

drop; leave out; miss; neglect; omit; overleap; overlook; pretermit (leave undone or leave out)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to skip over a surface

Example:

Skip a stone across the pond

Synonyms:

skim; skip; skitter

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "skip" is one way to...):

throw (propel through the air)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Bound off one point after another

Synonyms:

bound off; skip

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "skip" is one way to...):

bounce; bound; rebound; recoil; resile; reverberate; ricochet; spring; take a hop (spring back; spring away from an impact)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Jump lightly

Synonyms:

hop; hop-skip; skip

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "skip" is one way to...):

bound; jump; leap; spring (move forward by leaps and bounds)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Also:

skip over (bypass)

Derivation:

skip (a gait in which steps and hops alternate)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Leave suddenly

Example:

skip town

Synonyms:

decamp; skip; vamoose

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "skip" is one way to...):

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Intentionally fail to attend

Example:

cut class

Synonyms:

cut; skip

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "skip" is one way to...):

miss (fail to attend an event or activity)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "skip"):

bunk off; play hooky (play truant from work or school)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

skip (a mistake resulting from neglect)

skipper (a student who fails to attend classes)

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 Context examples: 

Men have a firm step, and when they walk over peas none of them stir, but girls trip and skip, and drag their feet, and the peas roll about.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Amelia should be a small, light, girlish, skipping figure.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Old Buckhorse was skipping about on a box beside me, shrieking out criticisms and advice in strange, obsolete ring-jargon, which no one could understand.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The carriage stopped, as I had expected, at the hotel door; my flame (that is the very word for an opera inamorata) alighted: though muffed in a cloak—an unnecessary encumbrance, by-the-bye, on so warm a June evening—I knew her instantly by her little foot, seen peeping from the skirt of her dress, as she skipped from the carriage-step.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As I sat quietly meditating at my table, I heard something bounce in at the closet-window, and skip about from one side to the other: whereat, although I was much alarmed, yet I ventured to look out, but not stirring from my seat; and then I saw this frolicsome animal frisking and leaping up and down, till at last he came to my box, which he seemed to view with great pleasure and curiosity, peeping in at the door and every window.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Thus, the researchers observed that those adolescents who reported different types of dietary restrictions (different types of diet, dieting very often, skipping breakfast, eating less frequently, etc.), along with those who were obese and those who had unhealthy behaviors unrelated to food (such as smoking or having insufficient sleep), felt less pleasure, attraction and desire to eat the highly palatable foods they were looking at (images of sweets, donuts, ice‑creams, chocolate crêpes, etc.).

(Obesity and food restrictions proven to be associated with less food enjoyment, University of Granada)

Planets in Capricorn emphasize bones, teeth, skin, and eye care, so don’t skip seeing a doctor about those topics.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

How Beth got excited, and skipped and sang with joy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then they rose up and opened their drawers and boxes, and took out all their fine clothes, and dressed themselves at the glass, and skipped about as if they were eager to begin dancing.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And now that's done, said the blind man; and at the words he suddenly left hold of me, and with incredible accuracy and nimbleness, skipped out of the parlour and into the road, where, as I still stood motionless, I could hear his stick go tap-tap-tapping into the distance.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)