skip
1. a gait in which steps and hops alternate
• Hypernyms:
gait
2. a mistake resulting from neglect
• Syn:
omission
• Derivationally related forms:
omit (for: omission)
• Hypernyms:
mistake, error, fault
• Hyponyms:
failure
1. bypass (Freq. 7)
- He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible
• Syn:
jump, pass over, skip over
• Hypernyms:
neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss,
leave out, overlook, overleap
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. intentionally fail to attend (Freq. 1)
- cut class
• Syn:
cut
• Derivationally related forms:
skipper
• Hypernyms:
miss
• Hyponyms:
bunk off, play hooky
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. jump lightly (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
hop, hop-skip
• See Also:
skip over, hop on (for: hop)
• Derivationally related forms:
hop (for: hop), hopper (for: hop)
• Hypernyms:
jump, leap, bound, spring
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
4. bound off one point after another
• Syn:
bound off
• Hypernyms:
bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound,
rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
5. leave suddenly
- She persuaded him to decamp
- skip town
• Syn:
decamp, vamoose
• Usage Domain:
colloquialism
• Hypernyms:
leave, go forth, go away
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
6. cause to skip over a surface
- Skip a stone across the pond
• Syn:
skim, skitter
• Hypernyms:
throw
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
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