skip

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology 1

[edit] Verb

skip (third-person singular simple present skips, present participle skipping, simple past and past participle skipped)

  1. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
    She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
  2. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
    • 2011 January 29, Ian Hughes, “Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd”, BBC:
      The hosts maintained their discipline and shape, even threatening to grab a second goal on the break - left-back Dan Harding made a scintillating run, skipping past a few challenges before prodding a right-footed shot that did not match his build-up.
  3. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
    The rock will skip across the pond.
    • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, BBC:
      After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno - Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut - nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes.
  4. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
    I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.
  5. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
    My heart will skip a beat.
    I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.
  6. To place an item in a skip.
  7. (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
    Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.
  8. (transitive, informal) To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country.
    • 1998, Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out?
      I see ya' little speed boat head up our coast
      She really want to skip town
      Get back off me, beast off me
      Get back you flea infested mongrel
  9. To jump rope.
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[edit] Translations
To move by hopping on alternate feet
To leap about lightly
To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface
To omit or disregard intermediate items or stages
Not to attend

[edit] Noun

skip (plural skips)

  1. A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
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A leaping, jumping or skipping movement

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A skip (sense 1: open-topped rubbish bin) and hauling vehicle

skip (plural skips)

  1. (Australian) (UK) An open-topped rubbish bin, ranging in size from perhaps 1.5x1.5 metres up to 6x3 metres, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents. See also skep.
  2. (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
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An open-topped rubbish bin

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skip (plural skips)

  1. Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
  2. (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
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(curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks

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Usually taken to be from Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.

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skip (plural skips)

  1. (Australian) (slang) An Australian person of Anglo-Celtic descent.
    2001: Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she?
    Barber: She is Australian.
    Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip. You little radical you.
    — Mary Coustas as her character Effie, TV series Effie: Just Quietly, 2001, episode Nearest and Dearest
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An Australian person of Anglo-Celtic descent
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[edit] Faroese

[edit] Etymology

From Old Norse skip.

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  • IPA: [ʃiːp]

[edit] Noun

skip n.

  1. ship

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n3 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative skip skipið skip skipini
Accusative skip skipið skip skipini
Dative skipi skipinum skipum skipunum
Genitive skips skipsins skipa skipanna

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skip

  1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀

[edit] Icelandic

[edit] Etymology

From Old Norse skip.

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[edit] Noun

skip n.

  1. ship, boat

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declension of skip
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative skip skipið skip skipin
accusative skip skipið skip skipin
dative skipi skipinu skipum skipunum
genitive skips skipsins skipa skipanna

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[edit] Norwegian

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From Old Norse skip. Cognate with Danish skib, Swedish skepp, Icelandic skip, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀 (skip), German Schiff, Dutch schip, and English ship.

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  • IPA: /ʃiːp/

[edit] Noun

skip n.

  1. ship

[edit] Inflection

    Inflection of skip
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Bokmål n skip skipet skip skipa/skipene
Nynorsk n skip skipet skip skipa [skipi]

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Terms derived from the noun skip

[edit] References

  • “skip” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

[edit] Old Norse

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skipan, whence also Old English scip (English ship), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀 (skip).

[edit] Noun

skip n.

  1. ship

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