Kip vs. Skip — What's the Difference?

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Move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce

The untanned hide of a small or young animal, such as a calf.

Jump over a rope which is held at both ends by oneself or two other people and turned repeatedly over the head and under the feet, as a game or for exercise

A set or bundle of such hides.

Omit (part of a book that one is reading, or a stage in a sequence that one is following)

A rooming house.

Fail to attend or deal with as appropriate; miss

A place to sleep; a bed.

Throw (a stone) so that it ricochets off the surface of water

Sleep.

Act as skip of (a side)

A unit of weight equal to 1,000 pounds (455 kilograms).

A light, bouncing step; a skipping movement

A maneuver in gymnastics, martial arts, and similar sports in which a person moves from lying on the back directly to a standing position by thrusting the legs upward and pushing off with hands placed palms-down near the ears. Also called kip-up.

An act of passing over part of a sequence of data or instructions.

To sleep.

A person who is missing, especially one who has defaulted on a debt.

The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.

A large transportable open-topped container for building and other refuse

A bundle or set of such hides.

A cage or bucket in which men or materials are lowered and raised in mines and quarries.

(obsolete) A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.

The captain or director of a side at bowls or curling.

The leather made from such hide; kip leather.

To move by hopping on one foot and then the other.

A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.

To leap lightly about.

Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.

To bounce over or be deflected from a surface; skim or ricochet

A very untidy house or room.

To pass from point to point, omitting or disregarding what intervenes

A brothel.

To be promoted in school beyond the next regular class or grade.

A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.

(Informal) To leave hastily; abscond

A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.

To misfire. Used of an engine.

A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.

To leap or jump lightly over

The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.

To pass over without mentioning; omit

A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.

To miss or omit as one in a series

(gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.

To cause to bounce lightly over a surface; skim.

(Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

To be promoted beyond (the next grade or level).

To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.

(Informal) To leave hastily

To snatch; take up hastily; filch

(Informal) To fail to attend

To hold or keep (together)

A leaping or jumping movement, especially a gait in which hops and steps alternate.

To conduct oneself; act

An act of passing over something; an omission.

To perform the kip maneuver.

A control mechanism on an audio or video player that interrupts the playing of a recording and advances or reverses to the beginning of the nearest chapter, track, or other division.

The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin.

A container for receiving, transporting, and dumping waste materials.

A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.

A method or feat of raising the body when hanging or swinging by the arms, as for the purpose of mounting upon the horizontal bar. The legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.

(intransitive) To leap about lightly.

Sleep;

(intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

The basic unit of money in Laos

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

A gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an errect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright

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

Be asleep

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

To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.

To leap lightly over.

To jump rope.

To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.

(printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.

To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).

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.

(radio) skywave propagation

A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. see also skep.

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

(steelmaking) A skip car.

A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.

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.

(specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.

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

(bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.

The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.

An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

A college servant.

A basket. See Skep.

A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.

An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.

A charge of sirup in the pans.

A beehive; a skep.

A light leap or bound.

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

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

To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; - commonly implying a sportive spirit.

Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; - often followed by over.

To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.

To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.

To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.

A gait in which steps and hops alternate

A mistake resulting from neglect

Bypass;

Intentionally fail to attend;

Jump lightly

Leave suddenly;

Bound off one point after another

Cause to skip over a surface;