Skip Over (Verb)
Meaning
Bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible".
Classification
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.
Examples
- While reformatting the database, the programmer instructed the program to skip over the irrelevant information.
- The readers tend to skip over the footnotes and the endnotes as they often appear tedious.
- The function is designed to skip over the corrupted data during the system backup.
- She skipped over the introduction and went straight to the main content of the article.
- When you're manually linking files, any filename containing an underscore will make the operating system skip over a character.