(prep.) In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person).
(prep.) Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
(prep.) Near; not far from; -- determining approximately time, size, quantity.
(prep.) In concern with; engaged in; intent on.
(prep.) On the point or verge of; going; in act of.
(prep.) Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching.
(adv.) On all sides; around.
(adv.) In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across.
(adv.) Here and there; around; in one place and another.
(adv.) Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time.
(adv.) To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about.
Example Sentences:
Skip
Definition:
(n.) A basket. See Skep.
(n.) A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
(n.) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
(n.) A charge of sirup in the pans.
(n.) A beehive; a skep.
(v. i.) To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit.
(v. i.) Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.
(v. t.) To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
(v. t.) To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.
(v. t.) To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.
(n.) A light leap or bound.
(n.) The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
(n.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
Example Sentences:
(1) This change led to an exon-skipping event resulting in a frame shift and generation of a stop codon.
(2) Moreover, the homozygous mutation appears to cause skipping of exon 6 in the mutant E1 alpha transcript.
(3) Moreover, CT attenuation values confirmed US findings in the study of typical "skip areas", by demonstrating normal density--which suggests that CT can characterize normal tissue in atypical "skip areas".
(4) Drogba hit the side-netting with Chelsea's best chance after Salomon Kalou had escaped Antolín Alcaraz to skip to the goal-line, before the visitors finally opened up Wigan with a classy move to take the lead just before the hour mark.
(5) Recent reports indicate that growing points in mammalian DNA simply skip past UV-induced lesions, leaving gaps in newly made DNA that are subsequently filled in by de novo synthesis.
(6) The patterns of relapse and long-term survival were studied in relation to the skip lesions, and these patterns were compared with those of 224 patients who had Stage-II osteosarcoma but no skip lesion.
(7) Here, we show that Ultrabithorax and even-skipped homeo domain proteins (UBX and EVE) of Drosophila melanogaster exert active and opposite effects on in vitro transcription when bound to a common site upstream of a core promoter.
(8) The alternative splicing mechanisms involve exon skipping as well as internal donor splice site usage.
(9) In Trial 2, the skip-a-day-fed birds were water restricted 4 h either every day, only on feed days, or had free access to water.
(10) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
(11) And had he not escaped and then skipped from continent to continent, Biggs would never have ended up on so many front pages and leading so many bulletins.
(12) * * * Skip Lievsay’s original plan was architecture.
(13) Ogura, now 78, survived because her father, convinced something bad would happen, told her to skip school on the day of the attack.
(14) The 69-kDa ttk protein has been shown to bind multiple sites within important regulatory elements of the pair-rule genes even-skipped (eve) and fushi tarazu (ftz), and it has been suggested that this protein may function as a repressor of ftz transcription.
(15) The new method includes the use of small Teflon pledgets to cover the conduction system at the crossing sites of suture line, and so that stitches can be placed on the pledgets to skip the conduction system.
(16) However, we know that a minimum qualifying time of 15 minutes for compensation has been called for, and this is something that the Department for Transport is considering.” Southern added that while some trains do skip stops to make up time, it is rare and that “if this is done, there is nothing to gain performance measure-wise as a train that skips stops is declared as a PPM failure – even if it does reach its destination on time”.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Adam Peaty wins Great Britain’s first gold of Rio 2016 Andy Murray skipped through his opening round with a straight-sets (6-3, 6-2) win over Serbia’s Viktor Troicki .
(18) Tony Goldstone , of the MRC Clinical Science Centre at Imperial College London, scanned the brains of people who skipped meals and found mechanisms at work that could help explain the conundrum.
(19) In the early days of MP3 players such as the Diamond Rio , you could tell that they were transformative because the ones using solid-state storage weren't prone to skipping, unlike the CD Walkmans they were trying to disrupt.
(20) 6.44pm BST 85 min: Musa, who has been very bright since coming on, skips and skedaddles past a couple of City players (including, inevitably, Garcia) and heads into the box.