Skipname

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  A male given name from Old Norse.

skipverb詞源 1/skɪp/

• 1

  To move by hopping on alternate feet.

  • She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
• 2

  To leap about lightly.

  • The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
  • So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.
• 3

  To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

  • The rock will skip across the pond.
  • 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

  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

  To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).

  • My heart will skip a beat.
  • He skipped the second question and moved on.
• 6

  informalNot 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.
• 7

  informalTo leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.

  • to skip the country
  • a customer who skipped town without paying her hotel bill
• 8

  To leap lightly over.

  • to skip the rope

skipnoun詞源 1/skɪp/

• 1

  A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.

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  The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

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  video-gamesThe act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

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  entertainmentlifestylemusicA passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

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  A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.

  • Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips.
• 6

  broadcastingmediaradioskywave propagation

• 7

  informalA song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.

skipnoun詞源 2/skɪp/

• 1

  A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.

• 2

  businessminingA transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.

  • Beside it was a great engine which worked a continuous steel rope on which the skips were fastened which drew up the débris by successive stages from the bottom of the shaft.
• 3

  A skip car.

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  dialectalA skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.

  • In a panic he pushed the prostesting Catweazle inside an empty clothes skip and sat down on the lid just as his father and Sam came in.
• 5

  A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.

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  A charge of syrup in the pans.

• 7

  A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.

skipverb詞源 2/skɪp/

• 1

  To place (an item) in a skip (large container for waste).

skipnoun詞源 3/skɪp/

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  ball-gamescurlinggamesThe player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.

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  The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.

• 3

  informalThe scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization).

skipverb詞源 3/skɪp/

• 1

  To act as skipper, or captain, of a team.

skipnoun詞源 4/skɪp/

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  slangAn Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

  • 2001, Effie (character played by Mary Coustas), Effie: Just Quietly (TV series), Episode: Nearest and Dearest, 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.

skipnoun詞源 5/skɪp/

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  historicalA college servant.

  • Behind the Counter stood a complaisant Spark, who I observ'd shew'd as much Breeding in the sale of a Penny-worth of Tobacco, and the change of a Shilling, as a Courtier's Footman when he meets his Brother Skip in the middle of Covent-Garden; and is so very dexterous in discharge of his Occupation, the he guesses from a Pound of Tobacco to an Ounce to the certainty of one Corn […]
  • He constitutes, probably, the identical exception which Sir Boyle Roche had in his mind's eye, when he broached his famous problem, that "a man cannot be in two places at once, barring he is a bird." The skip, or according to the Oxford etymology, the man-vulture, is not fit for his calling who cannot time his business so as to be present simultaneously at several places. He must be at Kinshan's on Carlisle Bridge, for Mr. Moriarty's half-pound of tea, at the very moment that Sir Looby, in the Botany Bay Square, requires his three eggs; and the Billy Sheridan of the day is singing out, like Stentor, from the tiles and skylights of a coctile edifice beside the library, for the "lazy rascal!"

skipnoun詞源 6/skɪp/

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  slangA skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.

  • My skip is helpful when my team lead is being uptight.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• skipper