This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

Meaning Of Skip

  1. n.
    A basket. See Skep.
  2. n.
    A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
  3. n.
    An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
  4. n.
    A charge of sirup in the pans.
  5. n.
    A beehive; a skep.
  6. v. i.
    To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit.
  7. v. i.
    Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.
  8. v. t.
    To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
  9. v. t.
    To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.
  10. v. t.
    To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.
  11. n.
    A light leap or bound.
  12. n.
    The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
  13. n.
    A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.



Menu