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Skip can be a verb or a noun.
skip used as a verb:
- To move by hopping on alternate feet.
"She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other." - To leap about lightly.
- To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
"The rock will skip across the pond." - 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." - To omit or disregard (some item or stage).
"My heart will skip a beat." - To place an item in a skip.
- 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." - To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
skip used as a noun:
- A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
- 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.
- An Australian person of Anglo-Celtic descent. Used by people of southern European descent (those who the "skips" in turn call "wogs"), not used by Anglo Australians themselves. Usually taken to be from Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and not of itself insulting (though might be used as such).
"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" - The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks
- Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship.
- The elevator in a mine.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is skip?
- Verb usage: She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
- Verb usage: The rock will skip across the pond.
- Verb usage: I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.
- Verb usage: My heart will skip a beat.
- Verb usage: I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.
- Verb usage: Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.
- Noun usage: 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
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of skip are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of skip, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
