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skipping
跳過
Skip, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Skipped p. pr. & vb. n. Skipping.]
1. To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit.
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day,
Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? --Pope.
So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically. --Hawthorne.
2. Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.
skip
n 1: a gait in which steps and hops alternate
2: a mistake resulting from neglect [syn: omission]
v 1: bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence
was incomprehensible" [syn: jump, pass over, skip
over]
2: intentionally fail to attend; "cut class" [syn: cut]
3: jump lightly [syn: hop, hop-skip]
4: leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town"
[syn: decamp, vamoose]
5: bound off one point after another [syn: bound off]
6: cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"
[syn: skim, skitter]
[also: skipping, skipped]