Skip (Verb)
Meaning 1
Bound off one point after another.
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Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
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Meaning 2
Cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond".
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Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
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Meaning 3
Bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible".
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Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.
Examples
- She skipped a paragraph in the book and couldn't follow the storyline.
- The clerk skipped a page in the form and had to redo the entire application.
- He skipped a verse in the song and the band members were confused.
- The programmer skipped a line of code by mistake and the program crashed.
- The typesetter skipped a section in the article, causing it to lose its coherence.
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Meaning 4
Leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town".
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Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
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Meaning 5
Intentionally fail to attend; "cut class".
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Verbs of being, having, spatial relations.
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Meaning 6
Jump lightly.
Classification
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
Examples
- The children loved to skip in the park during the sunny afternoons.
- She began to skip along the gravel path as soon as she heard the birds chirping.
- As they walked hand-in-hand, the little girl started to skip ahead of her father.
- The girls skipped down the hallway, full of excitement for their school dance.
- After a few minutes of walking, she shifted her pace to skip alongside her friends.