Drop vs Skip - What's the difference?

In music|lang=en terms the difference between drop and skip

is that drop is (music) to tune (a guitar string, etc) to a lower note while skip is (music) a passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

In lang=en terms the difference between drop and skip

is that drop is to cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course while skip is to disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).

As nouns the difference between drop and skip

is that drop is a small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that falls from a source of liquid while skip is a leaping, jumping or skipping movement or skip can be (australia|new zealand|british) a large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents; called a dumpster in north america (where "skip" is completely unknown and incomprehensible) see also skep or skip can be short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority or skip can be (australia|slang) an australian of anglo-celtic descent.

As verbs the difference between drop and skip

is that drop is to fall in droplets (of a liquid) while skip is to move by hopping on alternate feet.

drop

English

(wikipedia drop)

Noun

(en noun)

A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that falls from a source of liquid.

Put three drops of oil into the mixture.

The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.

On one side of the road was a 50-foot drop .

A fall, descent; an act of dropping.

That was a long drop , but fortunately I didn't break any bones.

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It moved in surges, like a roller coaster on a series of drops and high-banked turns.

A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal activity; a drop-off point.

I left the plans at the drop , like you asked.

An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies by parachute.

The delivery driver has to make three more drops before lunch.

(chiefly, British) a small amount of an alcoholic beverage; or when used with the definite article (the drop ), alcoholic spirits in general.

He usually enjoys a drop after dinner.

It doesn't matter where you're from; anyone who enjoys the drop is a friend of mine.

(Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.

A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, a lemon drop; a lozenge.

(American football) A dropped pass.

Yet another drop for the Tiger tight end.

(American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.

The Tiger quarterback took a one-step drop , expecting his tight end to be open.

In a woman'', the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; ''in a man , the difference between chest circumference and waist circumference.

(video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.

(music) A point in a song, usually electronic styled music such as dubstep, house and trance, where everything is played at once, also known highlight, or climax.

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(US, banking, dated) an unsolicited credit card issue

The vertical length of a hanging curtain.

That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc.

(architecture) A gutta.

A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's deck; a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet; a curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; etc.

A drop press or drop hammer.

(engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.

(nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.

Derived terms

* dropless * droplike * raindrop

Verb

(dropp)

To fall in droplets (of a liquid).

* Spenser

The kindly dew drops from the higher tree, / And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.

To drip (a liquid).

* Creech

The trees drop balsam.

* Sterne

The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.

Generally, to fall (straight down).

(ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).

To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.

* Bible, Psalms lxviii. 8

The heavens dropped at the presence of God.

To sink quickly to the ground.

To fall dead, or to fall in death.

* Digby

Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us.

To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.

* 1897 , (Henry James), (What Maisie Knew) :

Maisie's faith in Mrs. Wix for instance had suffered no lapse from the fact that all communication with her had temporarily dropped .

To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.

(slang) To part with or spend (money).

* 1949 , The Atlantian , v 8, Atlanta: United States Penitentiary, p 41:

The question was: Who put the most in the collection box? The wealthy guy, who dropped a “C” note, or the tattered old dame who parted with her last tarnished penny.

* 2000 , Lisa Reardon, Blameless: A Novel , Random House, p 221:

I forked over the $19.25. I was in no position to be dropping twenties like gumdrops but I deserved something good from this crappy morning.

To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion etc.).

* S. Sharp

They suddenly drop't the pursuit.

* Thackeray

that astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again

* Sir Walter Scott

The connection had been dropped many years.

To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}

To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).

To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.

* 1846, ed. by G. W. Nickisson, “Elephant-Shooting in Ceylon”, in , vol. XXXIII, no. CXCVII

page 562: ...if the first shot does not drop him, and he rushes on, the second will be a very hurried and most likely ineffectual one...

page 568 ...with a single shot he dropped him like a master of the art.

* 1892 , Alexander A. A. Kinloch, Large Game Shooting in Thibet, the Himalayas, Northern and Central India , page 126

As with all other animals, a shot behind the shoulder is the most likely to drop the beast on the spot

* 1921 , Daniel Henderson, Boone of the Wilderness , page 54

He dropped the beast with a bullet in its heart.

* 1985 , (Beastie Boys), :

The piano player's out, the music stopped / His boy had beef, and he got dropped ...

* 1992, Dan Parkinson, Dust on the Wind , page 164

With a quick clench of the fist on Joey's throat, Bodie dropped him. The man crumpled to the ground

(linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).

(cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman being out.

(slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.

to dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose

to eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.

(slang) To impart.

(transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.

(music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.

(intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.

(music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.

To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course

(fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.

(of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 26, author=Genevieve Koski, work=The Onion AV Club

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(of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.

(of people) To visit informally; used with in'' or ''by .

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}

To give birth to.

to drop a lamb

To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.

* Milton

their waved coats dropped with gold

To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

Derived terms

(terms derived from the noun or verb "drop") * a drop in the bucket * air-drop * at the drop of a hat * black drop effect * cough drop * dewdrop * drop a bollock * drop a bomb * drop a dime * drop a line * drop-add form * drop back, drop-back * drop-ball * drop by * drop cap * drop cloth * drop curtain * drop dead, drop-dead * drop-down * drop goal * drop in, drop-in * drop kerb * drop kick, drop-kicker * drop-leaf table * droplet * drop like flies * drop off, dropoff, drop-off * drop out, dropout, drop-out * dropper * droppings * drop scene * drop scone * drop shot * drop the gloves * drop the ball * drop trou * eye-drop * get the drop on * name-drop, name-dropping * one drop * one-drop rule * the penny drops * Turkey drop * raindrop * so quiet one can hear a pin drop * teardrop * waiting for the other shoe to drop

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skip

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), of (etyl) origin, ultimately from (etyl) .

Verb

(skipp)

To move by hopping on alternate feet.

She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.

To leap about lightly.

* Alexander Pope

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?

* Nathaniel Hawthorne

So she drew her mother away skipping , dancing, and frisking fantastically.

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To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

The rock will skip across the pond.

* {{quote-news

, year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno - Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut - nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes.}}

To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.

I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.

To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).

My heart will skip a beat.

I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.

* Bishop Burnet

They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters.

To place an item in a skip.

(informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).

Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.

(informal) To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country.

* 1998 ,

I see ya' little speed boat head up our coast

She really want to ''skip town

Get back off me, beast off me

Get back you flea infested mongrel

To leap lightly over.

to skip the rope

To jump rope.

The girls were skipping in the playground.

Synonyms

* (sense) (US) play hookie

Noun

(en noun)

A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

(music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

(Busby)

A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.

* 2012 , Susan Nash, Skip Tracing Basics and Beyond (page 19)

Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips .

Derived terms

* skipping rope

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

(Australia, New Zealand, British) A large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents; called a dumpster in North America (where "skip" is completely unknown and incomprehensible). See also skep.

(mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.

(UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket.

A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.

(sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.

A beehive.

Synonyms

* (open-topped rubbish bin) dumpster

Etymology 3

Noun

(en noun)

Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.

(curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.

Etymology 4

A reference to the television series ; coined and used by Australians (particularly children) of non-British descent to counter derogatory terms aimed at them. Australian National Dictionary Centre » Home » Australian words » Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms » S

Alternative forms

* skippy

Noun

(en noun)

(Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

* 2001 , ), Effie: Just Quietly'' (TV series), Episode: ''Nearest and Dearest ,

Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she?

Barber: She is Australian.

Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip . You little radical you.

References

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