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How to pronounce skip in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hop, hop-skip
Type of spring, bound, leap, jump
Type Words
Synonyms jump, pass over, skip over
Type of overlook, drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, pretermit


He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible.
Type Words
Synonyms omission
Type of fault, error, mistake
Has types failure
Type Words
Synonyms bound off
Type of spring, ricochet, reverberate, recoil, resile, rebound, bounce, bound, take a hop
Type Words
Synonyms decamp, vamoose
Type of go away, go forth, leave


skip town.
Type Words
Synonyms skim, skitter
Type of throw
Type Words
Synonyms cut
Type of miss
Has types play hooky, bunk off
Derivation skipper
Type Words
Type of gait

Examples of skip

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If the other diners aren't ordering tea or dessert, she'll skip the last course.
From the online.wsj.com
Steel would skip the Duke trustees'meeting and head to Charlotte Friday morning.
From the charlotteobserver.com
It would be better to skip the intermediate step and go straight to the FairTax.
From the forbes.com
So, you skip around and pressing combinations affects the timeline of the video.
From the hecklerspray.com
They also can skip taking their computers and toiletries out of their carry-ons.
From the freep.com
Still, everything she owns fits in her car if the need to skip town ever arises.
From the suntimes.com
Second, approximately 60 percent of adolescents skip breakfast on a daily basis.
From the sciencedaily.com
It does a good job of explaining, though there's a bit of preamble you can skip.
From the techcrunch.com
So far, I haven't seen a tool that would learn that and automatically skip them.
From the techcrunch.com
More examples
  • A gait in which steps and hops alternate
  • Jump: bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"
  • Cut: intentionally fail to attend; "cut class"
  • Omission: a mistake resulting from neglect
  • Hop: jump lightly
  • Decamp: leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town"
  • Z Force is a fictional infantry military unit that features in the Action Force universe, a European version of the G.I.Joe action figure and comic book series.
  • A skip occurs when a phonograph (gramophone), cassette tape or compact disc player malfunctions or is disturbed so as to play incorrectly, causing a break in sound or a jump to another part of the recording.
  • This article features minor fictional characters who appear as guest stars on the cult television program Angel, ordered alphabetically. For the show's main characters, please see the article list of Angel characters.