skype

See also: Skype

English

Alternative forms

• Skype

Etymology

From Skype.

Pronunciation

• enPR: skīp, IPA^(key): /skaɪp/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪp

Verb

skype (third-person singular simple present skypes, present participle skyping or skypeing, simple past and past participle skyped)

1. (transitive, computing) To make (a telephone call) using Skype software.
2. (transitive, computing) To send (a message or file) with Skype.
3. (transitive, intransitive, computing) To contact (a person) via Skype.

   I'll skype you tomorrow. We can skype for a couple of hours.

   • 2013, S. Irudaya Rajan, editor, India Migration Report 2013: Social Costs of Migration, Routledge, →ISBN:

     While spatial mobility does cause discontinuity in social relationships and result in losing the support system from their home country (Rangaswamy 2000), yet the social ties of our participants have not dissolved as they have been able to maintain supportive networks in India through physical visits, e-mails, ‘skypeing’ to contacts in foreign places.

   • 2015, Alan Carter, Bad Seed, Fremantle: Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page 123:

     ‘Where’s 007? He invited too?’ ‘He’s skypeing his mum. He’ll meet us down there.’

   • 2015, Denis O’Sullivan, The Anthropist: A Curious Tale of Parallel Monogamy, Sex, Religion, Quantum Mechanics and Volleyball, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 21:

     And so Andy went home, still on a caffeine high, feeling excited about life as a graduate student, and instead of skypeing with Anja or going for a beer, he went online and read up on some of the relevant particle physics.

Hypernyms

• vidcall
• vidchat

Translations

make a Skype telephone call

• Arabic: سْكَايَبَ (skāyaba)
• Armenian: սքայփել (skʿaypʿel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: skypen (nl)
• Esperanto: skajpi
• Finnish: skypettää
• French: skyper (fr)
• German: skypen (de)
• Hungarian: szkájpol
• Pashto: سکايپ (skâíp)
• Russian: звонить по скайпу pf (zvonitʹ po skajpu)

Anagrams

• kypes, pesky, pykes

German

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Verb

skype

1. inflection of skypen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative