skip
English
/skɪp/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
- (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
- (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- To place an item in a skip.
- (transitive) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- (transitive) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
- To leap lightly over.
- To jump rope.
- (knitting) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
Etymology
Derived from Middle English skippen derived from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skupjaną
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- frame English
- frameskip English
- load English
- outskip English
- overskip English
- skip-gram English
- skipable English
- skipathon English
- skipful English
- skipload English
- skipman English
- skippable English
- skippest English
- skippeth English
- skippy English
- skipworthy English
- time English
- timeskip English
- unskippable English
- vice-skip English
- *skupjaną Proto-Germanic
- skippa Swedish
- skippen Middle English
- sjippe Danish
- sippa Icelandic