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Meaning of skip

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  skip
      n 1: a gait in which steps and hops alternate
      2: a mistake resulting from neglect [syn: {omission}, {skip}]
      v 1: bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence
           was incomprehensible" [syn: {jump}, {pass over}, {skip},
           {skip over}]
      2: intentionally fail to attend; "cut class" [syn: {cut},
         {skip}]
      3: jump lightly [syn: {hop}, {skip}, {hop-skip}]
      4: leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town"
         [syn: {decamp}, {skip}, {vamoose}]
      5: bound off one point after another [syn: {skip}, {bound off}]
      6: cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"
         [syn: {skim}, {skip}, {skitter}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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