skip
US: /ˈskɪp/
UK: /skˈɪp/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
skip /skip/- danh từ
- (thể dục,thể thao) đội trưởng, thủ quân
- ông bầu
- danh từ
- thùng lồng (để chuyển người, đồ vật lên xuống hầm mỏ)
- (như) skep
- sự nhảy nhót, sự nhảy cẫng
- sự nhảy dây
- nhảy, bỏ quãng
- to skip from one subject to another: đang chuyện nọ nhảy (rọ) sang chuyện kia
- he skips as he reads: khi đọc, anh ấy bỏ quãng
- nhảy lớp
- (từ lóng) chuồn, lủi, đi mất
- ngoại động từ
- nhảy, bỏ, quên
- to skip a passage: nhảy một đoạn
- to skip a form: nhảy một lớp
- to skip the descriptions: bỏ không đọc những đoạn tả, quên không đọc những đoạn tả
- nhảy, bỏ, quên
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun+ verb
(-pp-)
move with jumps
1 [V] [usually +adv./prep.] to move forwards lightly and quickly making a little jump with each step: She skipped happily along beside me. + Lambs were skipping about in the fields.
jump over rope
2 [V] (BrE) (AmE jump rope, skip rope) to jump over a rope which is held at both ends by yourself or by two other people and is passed again and again over your head and under your feet: He skips for about 20 minutes a day. + The girls were skipping in the playground.
not do sth
3 [VN] to not do sth that you usually do or should do: I often skip breakfast altogether. + She decided to skip the afternoon's class.
4 to leave out sth that would normally be the next thing that you would do, read, etc: [VN] You can skip the next chapter if you have covered the topic in class. + [V] I skipped over the last part of the book. + I suggest we skip to the last item on the agenda.
change quickly
5 [V +adv./prep.] to move from one place to another or from one subject to another very quickly: She kept skipping from one topic of conversation to another.
leave secretly
6 [VN] to leave a place secretly or suddenly: [VN] The bombers skipped the country shortly after the blast.
stones
7 [VN] (BrE also skim) to make a flat stone jump across the surface of water: The boys were skipping stones across the pond.
Idioms: skip it (spoken, informal) used to tell sb rudely that you do not want to talk about sth or repeat what you have said: 'What were you saying?' 'Oh, skip it!'
Phrasal Verbs: skip off / out to leave secretly or suddenly
skip out on sb (AmE) to leave sb, especially when they need you: One day he just skipped out on his wife, leaving her with four kids to take care of.
+ noun
movement
1 a skipping movement: She gave a skip and a jump and was off down the street.
container for waste
2 (BrE) (AmE Dumpster) a large open container for putting old bricks, rubbish/garbage, etc. in. The skip is then loaded on a lorry/truck and taken away.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 leap, cavort, caper, gambol, frisk, prance, jump, hop, romp, bound, dance:
Eleanor came skipping down the walk to the house.
2 omit, leave out, pass by, overlook, pass over, avoid, ignore, disregard, steer clear of, cut:
In my haste, I skipped over your name. Please skip the reading of the roll today.
n.
3 leap, cavort, caper, gambol, frisk, prance, jump, bound, dance, hop, romp:
He had a curious way of walking, giving a little skip before each step
4 lacuna, gap, omission, avoidance, disregard; miss, Colloq go-by:
There was a skip of
32 pages after page 64. If you take my advice, you will give that restaurant a skip.
skippern.
captain, master, commander; boss, leader, chief:
The skipper gave orders to put him in irons.
Collocation
ADV.
lightly, nimbly | happily | along
PREP.
down, up
He skipped lightly up the stairs.
Concise dictionary
skipped|skipping|skipsskɪpnoun
+a gait in which steps and hops alternate
+a mistake resulting from neglect
verb
+bypass
+intentionally fail to attend
+jump lightly
+leave suddenly
+bound off one point after another
+cause to skip over a surface
