Skip vs Slide - What's the difference?
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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 ,
(ergative) To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface
To move on a low-friction surface.
* (rfdate), Waller:
(baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
(obsolete) To pass inadvertently.
* Bible, Eccles. xxviii. 26
To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
* (rfdate), Dryden:
* (rfdate), Alexander Pope:
(music) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cessation of sound.
To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
* (rfdate), Chaucer:
* (rfdate), Philip Sidney:
An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
* Francis Bacon
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A lever that can be moved in two directions.
A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
(baseball) The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
(sciences) A flat, rectangular piece of glass on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope.
(music, guitar) A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
(geology) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
(music) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
(phonetics) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
In intransitive terms the difference between skip and slide
is that skip is to skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface while slide is to pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.In transitive terms the difference between skip and slide
is that skip is to disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage) while slide is to pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.In lang=en terms the difference between skip and slide
is that skip is a passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once while slide is a grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.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
slide
English
Verb
- He slid the boat across the grass.
- The safe slid slowly.
- Snow slides down the side of a mountain.
- The car slid on the ice.
- They bathe in summer, and in winter slide .
- Jones slid into second.
- He slid while going around the corner.
- to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question
- Beware thou slide not by it.
- A ship or boat slides through the water.
- Ages shall slide away without perceiving.
- Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
- With good hope let he sorrow slide .
- With a calm carelessness letting everything slide .
Derived terms
* let slideNoun
(en noun)- The long, red slide was great fun for the kids.
- (Charles Dickens)
- The slide closed the highway.
- a slide on the ice
- A better slide into their business.
- (Dana)