skip

skip is a 4-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A basket. See Skep. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A basket. See Skep.
2. noun. A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
3. noun. An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
4. noun. A charge of sirup in the pans.
5. noun. A beehive; a skep.
6. intransitive verb. To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit.
7. intransitive verb. Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.
8. transitive verb. To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
9. transitive verb. To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.
10. transitive verb. To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.
11. noun. A light leap or bound.
12. noun. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
13. noun. A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
14. noun. a mistake resulting from neglect

    Synonyms: omission

15. noun. a gait in which steps and hops alternate
16. verb. bypass

    "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"

    Synonyms: jump

17. verb. cause to skip over a surface

    "Skip a stone across the pond"

    Synonyms: skim, skitter

18. verb. bound off one point after another
19. verb. jump lightly

    Synonyms: hop

20. verb. leave suddenly

    "She persuaded him to decamp"

    "skip town"

    Synonyms: decamp, vamoose

21. verb. intentionally fail to attend

    "cut class"

    Synonyms: cut

Synonyms

omission, jump, skim, skitter, hop, decamp, vamoose, cut

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in skip:

kips, pisk, spik

Common word forms

skips, skipped, skipper, skipping

Words from these letters

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