Skip vs Look - What's the difference?
skip | look |
To move by hopping on alternate feet.
To leap about lightly.
* Alexander Pope
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
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To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
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To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
* Bishop Burnet
To place an item in a skip.
(informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
(informal) To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country.
* 1998 ,
To leap lightly over.
To jump rope.
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.
A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
* 2012 , Susan Nash, Skip Tracing Basics and Beyond (page 19)
(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.
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.
(Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
* 2001 , ), Effie: Just Quietly'' (TV series), Episode: ''Nearest and Dearest ,
To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
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, title= To appear, to seem.
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*170? , (Joseph Addison),
*:but should I publish any favours done me by your Lordship, I am afraid it would look more like vanity than gratitude.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
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*:Chelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus De Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home.
(lb) To give an appearance of being.
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To search for, to try to find.
To face or present a view.
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*Bible, (w) xi. 1
*:the east gatewhich looketh eastward
To expect or anticipate.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:looking each hour into death's mouth to fall
(lb) To express or manifest by a look.
*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
*:Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again.
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To make sure of, to see to.
*1898 , (Homer), (Samuel Butler) (translator),
*:"Look to it yourself, father," answered Telemachus, "for they say you are the wisest counsellor in the world, and that there is no other mortal man who can compare with you.
To show oneself in looking.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:My toes look through the overleather.
To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes..
To seek; to search for.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Looking my love, I go from place to place.
To expect.
:(Shakespeare)
To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:A spirit fit to start into an empire, / And look the world to law.
(senseid)(lb) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
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The action of looking, an attempt to see.
(label) Physical appearance, visual impression.
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A facial expression.
As a verb skip
is to move by hopping on alternate feet.As a noun 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 a proper noun look is
or look can be .skip
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), of (etyl) origin, ultimately from (etyl) .Verb
(skipp)- She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
- The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
- So she drew her mother away skipping , dancing, and frisking fantastically.
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- The rock will skip across the pond.
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- I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.
- My heart will skip a beat.
- I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.
- They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters.
- Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.
- 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 skip the rope
- The girls were skipping in the playground.
Synonyms
* (sense) (US) play hookieNoun
(en noun)- (Busby)
- 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 ropeEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (open-topped rubbish bin) dumpsterEtymology 3
Noun
(en noun)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
* skippyNoun
(en noun)- 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.
See also
* limey * wogReferences
look
English
Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c., Dedication
citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
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