skip (pl skips)

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• skip — I UK [skɪp] / US verb Word forms skip : present tense I/you/we/they skip he/she/it skips present participle skipping past tense skipped past participle skipped * 1) a) [intransitive] to move forwards by jumping first on one foot and then the… …   English dictionary

• skip — ● skip nom masculin (anglais skip, benne) Appareil élévateur constitué par une benne de grande capacité, mue par un treuil, dont le vidage s opère par basculement ou par ouverture du fond. (On l utilise pour l alimentation des fours verticaux et… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• Skip reentry — is a reentry technique involving one or more successive skips off the atmosphere to achieve greater entry range or to slow the spacecraft before final entry, which decreases the huge amount of heat that is usually generated on faster descents.… …   Wikipedia

• Skip-It — is a children s toy invented by Victor Petrusek and manufactured by Tiger Electronics. During its initial release in the late 1980s, the Skip It apparatus became a commercial success through its avid advertisements on daytime Nickelodeon… …   Wikipedia

• skip — skip1 [skip] vi. skipped, skipping [ME skippen, prob. < Scand form akin to ON skopa, to jump, run < IE * skeub , to shoot, throw > SHOVE] 1. to leap, jump, or spring lightly; specif., to move along by hopping lightly on first one foot… …   English World dictionary

• skip — UK US /skɪp/ noun [C] UK (US Dumpster) TRANSPORT ► a large metal container used for getting rid of rubbish, old building materials, etc. Skips are removed using a truck: »Most of the waste was thrown into a skip …   Financial and business terms

• skip|per — skip|per1 «SKIHP uhr», noun, verb. –n. 1. the captain of a ship, especially of a yacht or a small trading or fishing boat: »A new skipper had been piped aboard (Newsweek). 2. any captain or leader: »the skipper of a baseball team. –v.t. to be the …   Useful english dictionary

• Skip — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Skip (homonymie). Benne de skip de haut fourneau sur sa ram …   Wikipédia en Français

• skip — skip1 [skıp] v past tense and past participle skipped present participle skipping ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(not do something)¦ 2¦(not deal with something)¦ 3¦(change subjects)¦ 4¦(movement)¦ 5¦(jump over a rope)¦ 6 skip town/skip the country 7 skip it! 8 ski …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• skip — [[t]skɪ̱p[/t]] skips, skipping, skipped 1) VERB If you skip along, you move almost as if you are dancing, with a series of little jumps from one foot to the other. [V adv/prep] They saw the man with a little girl skipping along behind him... [V… …   English dictionary

• Skip (container) — A skip (occasionally rubbish skip and in American English classed as a type of dumpster) is a large open topped container designed for loading onto a special type of lorry. Skips are commonly used to hold open topped loads of construction and… …   Wikipedia